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Human Rights

Corruption, Caste Keep Poor From Owning Land In Northern India

For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - w...

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Sustainable Development

Quantum Leap: Researchers Send Information Using A Single Particle Of Light

According to research published Thursday in Science, physicists at Princeton University have designed a device that allows a single electron to pass its quantum information...

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Alternative Entertainment

It’s Funny Because It’s True: Fact-Based Comedy Can Affect Audiences

Can stand-up comedy be a platform for investigative journalism? It may seem like an odd question, but that’s exactly what The Center for Investigative Reporting and W...

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Hollywood

Viola Davis, Madeleine K. Albright And Condoleezza Rice To Take Part In Watermark Conference For Women

The Watermark Conference for Women Silicon Valley announced this week that Tony and Emmy award-winning actress Viola Davis will deliver a keynote address and former U.S. Se...

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Environment

UK Hits Clean Energy Milestone: 50% Of Electricity From Low Carbon Sources

Half of the UK’s electricity came from wind turbines, solar panels, wood burning and nuclear reactors between July and September, in a milestone first. Official figur...

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Health

Reforming Healthcare In India

India faces a triple-disease burden of maternal and child health, infectious, and non-communicable diseases. This is despite India’s status as the third-largest econo...

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Alternative Entertainment

19 NonFiction Books From 2016 That Will Expand Your Mind

While we do love our fiction at HuffPost Arts & Culture, 2016 ushered in ample nonfiction work that’s just as worthy of your time and eyeballs. What many need aft...

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Gender

This Gritty Woman Started Her Crusade Against Child Sexual Abuse When She Was Just 10!

India ranks among the top five countries with the highest rate of child sexual abuse. A 2013 report by the Asian Centre for Human Rights explained the epidemic proportions ...

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Human Rights

Panels Should Be Proactive In Curbing Child Rights Violations

With crimes against children rising every year, a senior Supreme Court judge has urged the national and the state commissions for protection of child rights to play a proac...

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Bollywood

Mallika Sherawat: Important To Break Silence About Child Prostitution

Actress Mallika Sherawat says it is important to break the silence in many countries about child prostitution and the need to prosecute the offenders. The 40-year-old actre...

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