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Elton John AIDS Foundation Announces $4.4 Million In Grants

On October 21, the Elton John AIDS Foundation announced a new series of grants totaling $4.4 million to support organizations fighting the HIV/AID Sepidemic in critical and...

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Health

Change In NHM Funding Pattern? Tweak In Funds May Affect Health

Despite a number of schemes announced by the erstwhile UPA government coming under attack from the BJP-led NDA government, the success of 10-year-old National Health Missio...

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Festivals

6th Jagran Film Festival Extends Lifetime Achievement Award To Shashi Kapoor, Best Actor To Dulal Sarkar And Best Actress To Bhumi Pednekar At The Starry Festival Closing Night

~ Veteran make-up artiste Pandhari Juker honoured with Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema title ~

~ Dulal Sarkar and the film ‘Chotoder Ch...

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Gender

Gender Affects Awarding Of Research Funding

Women are still underrepresented in top academic positions. One of the possible explanations for this is the increasing importance of obtaining research funding. Women are ...

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Hollywood

From Angelina Jolie To Priyanka Chopra -- 9 Celebs Who Are Helping Educate Our Kids

As September 8 marks International Literacy Day, here’s a list of some of the celebrities from Hollywood to Bollywood who support the cause for education. Hollywood s...

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Gender

Lack Of Women Professors Means Research Grants Are Skewed Towards Men

New research has shown that when women working in the social sciences apply for a research grant, they are just as likely as men to win funding. But while there is equality...

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Thought Factory

The Subdued Whispers Of Posterity In Fallout

The world stood still as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb quoted from a passage of the Bhagvad Geeta where Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna “I ha...

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Thought Factory

Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

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Gender

A New Ratings System Will Assess Schooling For Girls Worldwide

An advocacy group set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Policy Magazine are launching an annual index to assess the availability and quality of ed...

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Health

Scientists Get One Step Closer To A Universal Flu Vaccine

LAST YEAR’S SEASONAL flu vaccine was a bit of a dud: It reduced a person’s risk of needing to see a doctor for the flu by only 23 percent. That wasn’t any...

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