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Amma Only, On Prime Time

Never have Indian television channels been subjected to the frenetic pace, frenzied reporting and commentating as they all did on Tuesday, December 6 when J. Jayalalitha wa...

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Sustainable Development

An iPhone-Powered VR Headset Promises Positional Tracking Without a Tether

The widely beloved iPhone has so far missed the main currents of smartphone-based virtual reality, thus playing second fiddle to the likes of Samsung's Gear VR headset or G...

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Human Rights

Human Rights Day: Here's How India Fares In Human Rights

On the 68th Human Rights Day, we have gathered some facts on the violation of human rights in India and around the world.Human Rights Day is celebrated, every year, on Dece...

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Environment

A Toxic Leak Left Corpus Christi With No Water For Days. A Taste Of Things To Come?

Corpus Christi, Texas, calls itself the “sparkling city by the sea”. But lately it doesn’t feel very sparkling. The city imposed a four-day ban on consumi...

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Trending

Can Television Be Fair To Muslims?

FOR the Nuxalbari Estate in the lush hills of India’s north-east, relief came in the nick of time. With winter pruning of its tea plantations at hand, 600 workers wer...

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Human Rights

Children And Families Should Never Be In Immigration Detention – UN Experts

Governments should stop placing children and families in immigration detention, a group of UN human rights experts* has said in a call to mark International Migrants’...

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Festivals

Curtains To Fall On Patna Film Festival Today

PATNA: Intense cold failed to deter cine lovers from thronging the two venues of Patna Film Festival - Regent Cinema and Rabindra Bhawan - in the last six days. The weeklon...

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Human Rights

'Stand Up For Someone's Rights Today,' UN Urges On Human Rights Day

Upholding human rights is in the interest of all and are at the heart of the work and identify of the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed ahead of Hu...

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Health

Growing Up Stunted

Shivraj, namesake of the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, lost his one-year-old son Dharmraj in August this year. “His growth was extremely slow, and he was getting ...

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Human Rights

The Hipster Hunger For Superfoods Is Starving India's Adivasis

Every morning, Baisa, a forest-dwelling Karbi woman, gets up at 4 am to forage fresh wild edible plants and insects from the forest. At the market in Diphu, Baisa is able t...

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