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Environment

It May Be Even Worse For The Polar Bears Than Previously Thought

Because of an increase in heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, polar bear habitats are likely to see severe declines in sea ice extent by mid-century, which could lead to...

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Environment

The World Is Running Out of Water

Humans are depleting underground aquifers around the world at alarming rates, threatening hundreds of millions of people who rely on them for survival, according to a compr...

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Thought Factory

TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

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H&R Johnson: A Story of Solutions

YouTube has been abuzz with videos on physically-challenged and differently-abled people who fought the odds and emerged stronger. At first, these made people moist-eyed; b...

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Environment

Part Of Antarctica Suddenly Started Melting At A Rate Of 14 Trillion Gal. A Year

Sometime in 2009, a long-stable, glacier-filled region in Antarctica suddenly began to melt. Fast. A team of scientists with the University of Bristol made the alarming obs...

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Movies

Mad Max: Fury Road

Critics rating: 3.5 Stars

Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zo&e...

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The Right To Life

Watching a few clips of Blue Natalie, an Israeli Television series left me disturbed with the emotionally rough scenes of women being herded on to a yatch and then shoved d...

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Hollywood

George Clooney Set To Run London Marathon 2016 After Losing Bet

Hollywood heartthrob promises to take part in next year’s race if model friend Christy Turlington finishes 26.2-mile course in under four hours George Clooney, the Ho...

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Widowed Before They’re Old Enough To Marry, Life Is A Battle For These Girls

Shanti Dhakad of Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen district got married when she was 13. Six years later, her husband died in an accident, forcing the illiterate Dhakad into ma...

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Thought Factory

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

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