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Sustainable Development

Is America Disinventing Human Rights? By Professor Alemayehu G Mariam

In his 1981 farewell speech, President Jimmy Carter said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way round. Human rights invented...

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Sustainable Development

Courting' controversy

India has been witnessing a rising trend of judicial intervention and directives in cases involving a face-off between large institutional project...

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Health

Health Equity in Post 2015 Development Agenda

This Beyond 2015 position paper for the thematic UN consultation on “Health in the Post-2015 Development Agenda” was drafted by a broad team of health advocates...

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Health

Common Genes may Underline Alcohol Abuse and Eating Disorders

A recent study finds that people with alcohol dependence may be genetically susceptible to eating disorders and vice-versa. In a study of nearly 6,000 adult twins, research...

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Health

CBSE all set to introduce a new subject called Health Education for Class 4 to Class 10 student

A new independent subject on health could soon be introduced as part of school education by the CBSE, according to a senior health ministry official. The subject which is l...

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Environment

The East is grey

China is the world’s worst polluter but largest investor in green energy. Its rise will have as big an impact on the environment as on the world economy or po...

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Movies

HOW DO YOU FALL OUT OF LOVE WITH COUNTRY MUSIC

Vinta Nanda had this interesting conversation, recently, with Shyamala Moorty, dire...

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Hollywood

Lady Gaga makes a Stellar Debut in ‘A Star Is Born’

The international pop-star Lady Gaga born as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28th 1986 in New York sets a unique mark on the film industry. Gaga learned to play...

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Film historian Dhruv Somani, recalls the Florence Nightingales of Bollywood cinema.

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Thought Factory

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."


J.K. Rowling

 


Over the last one century or so, ordin...

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