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Sustainable Development

France Becomes First Federal Postal Service To Use Drones To Deliver Mail

Who needs mailmen when you've got drones? That's what France thinks, anyway. The French postal service is beginning an experimental drone delivery program to deliver parcel...

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Kaleidoscope

All It Takes Is Courage

Sushmita Mukherjee’s new one-woman show, Naribai, has her play a face-off between two been interesting women of different social strata. Sunaina is an upper clas...

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TV

Amma Only, On Prime Time

Never have Indian television channels been subjected to the frenetic pace, frenzied reporting and commentating as they all did on Tuesday, December 6 when J. Jayalalitha wa...

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Environment

Six New Species Discovered Near Thermal Vents on Ocean Floor

In 2011, a team of marine ecologists led by Jon Copley sent a remotely operated submarine nearly two miles underwater to observe a field of hydrothermal vents in the southw...

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Health

OPPI Releases ‘Healthcare In India: New Milestones New Frontiers’ With McKinsey And Co As knowledge Partner

‘Healthcare in India: New Milestones New Frontiers’, a publication which highlights some existing and future challenges for poli...

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Human Rights

Why Photographer Nydia Blas Only Makes Images Of Women Of Color

There is a distinct kind of intimacy that binds close female relationships ― whether between sisters, lovers, or friends. There’s a warmth that reveals itself throu...

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Health

Foot Soldiers Of India’s National Health Program, Here’s How Much An Asha Worker Makes

Foot soldiers of the National Rural Health Mission, these women health activists risk their well-being to keep villagers healthy. It’s perhaps time the Accredited Soc...

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Bollywood

Madhuri Dixit Adds Star Power To AIF’s Women-Child Health Care Symposium

The American India Foundation partnered with Stanford Medicine to host a symposium on maternal and child health care in India Oct. 14, an event which saw a string of high-p...

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Hollywood

Helen Mirren Shows Support For Humane Society With Anti-Fur Pin

Whether she's sporting a new tattoo, a fantastic (though difficult to walk in) dress or hot pink hair, Dame Helen Mirren knows how to make a splash on the red carpet. At Mo...

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Gender

How Cinematographer Sophie Winqvist Is Breaking Gender Norms & Fighting Biases In Bollywood

Indian cinema is full of success stories of women making it big on the Big Screen. Here is a woman who has achieved noteworthy success behind the scenes of Bollywood, despi...

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