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Human Rights

Country's First Accessibility Audit Fails To Find A Single Disabled Friendly Building

India's first accessibility audit of buildings and public places has not found a single completely disabled-friendly building, exposing terrible plight of people with disab...

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Sustainable Development

In The World’s Biggest City, The Past Offers Lessons For Surviving The Future

A major campaign, “Cool Japan”, is underway to promote the nation as a “cultural superpower”. As part of a resurgence of interest in the Edo era (th...

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Human Rights

Once A Dropout, Anita Munda Now Dreams Of Becoming An Officer

A unique education programme in Odisha's tribal belt helps underprivileged children join the government school network. Deep in the sal forests that hide the iron and alloy...

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Alternative Entertainment

Pacific-Wide Storytelling Initiative Launched

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning has launched the Pacific Storytellers Cooperative, an Internet platform for place-based stories from all Pacific Islands to be ...

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Sustainable Development

These Charts Prove That The World Is Getting Dramatically Better, Not Worse

Tomorrow is Red Nose Day, an annual fundraising campaign organized by public charity Comic Relief Inc. to help alleviate child poverty. In the U.S. alone, one in seven fami...

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Gender

Investing In Teenage Girls: What Is World Population Day?

There are more young people in the world than ever before. With proper investment in their education and health, they could transform their countries' economies and futures...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Cry From The Mountains, With Echoes In The Cities

The story of Hindi poet Mangalesh Dabral, who was born in Tehri Garhwal in 1948 but for most of his career as a journalist lived and worked in Delhi, is the story of Uttara...

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Health

Need For A Robust Steel Framework For Health In India

The latest edition of Unicef’s State of the World’s Children report suggests that 1.2 million children under the age of five died of totally preventable disease...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Precious Friendships

Two books about enduring friendships, both beautiful and heartwarming are very different—one about two female friends and the other about four male friends.  The...

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Festivals

Rishi Kapoor To Attend Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne As The Guest Of Honour

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor will attend the upcoming edition of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne as the guest of honour. According to news reports, the 2016 festival is...

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