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Vaccinations essential for children

Chances are, you’ve never had to worry about contracting small pox, tuberculosis or polio, but less than 100 years ago that might not have been the case.

Vacc...

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Environment

British Floods, California Drought: A Connection?

This winter, weather reports have been full of extremes. California, for instance, has had the driest year in 119 years of recordkeeping, with the Sierra snowpack less than...

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Sustainable Development

Nuclear Plants To Power Sustainable Development

Forgotten is the shock and despair triggered by the Fukushima power plant disaster about two years ago. Nuclear power is here to stay. In fact, according to a consensus eme...

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Hollywood

Christian Bale Wrote On His Face To Support A Man With Cancer

There are people who still think of Christian Bale as “that guy who threw the temper tantrum on the set of that movie” because we’re always going to remem...

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Bollywood

Akshay Kumar to teach self defence for women

Akshay Kumar, India’s Bollywood Actor, is set to launch a free of charge martial arts training institute for women in Mumbai this year. The self defense course is set...

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Sustainable Development

Tackling water, sanitation, energy nexus key to sustainable future – UN officials

General Assembly President John Ashe (right) opens the thematic debate on water, sanitation and sustainable energy. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is at left. UN Photo/Paulo...

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Health

Polio-free India to get WHO certification

As India celebrates its victory over polio — completing three years without any case of the debilitating infection — the nation becomes entitled to polio-free c...

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Environment

Global warming: Ice loss makes Arctic itself a bigger climate changer

As the Arctic region loses ice cover to global warming, it is itself becoming a stronger contributor to warming than climate models had predicted it would, a new study find...

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Health

CDA anti-polio campaign to begin on 24th

Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Maroof Afzal said on Tuesday that eradication of polio is a national duty and the CDA will perform this duty as a sanctified ca...

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Environment

Climate change modelling in the spotlight after Australia’s hottest year on record

There have always been tough times and lush times”, said the Prime Minister Tony Abbott yesterday when asked about drought and climate change .But the Bureau of Meteo...

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