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Environment

Indian city of Surat anticipates worst effects of climate change

Gujarat city on India?s west coast is preparing to cope with twin disasters brought on by rapid growth and global warming According to the climate change experts, it is onl...

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Sustainable Development

Ethical 3D printing begins with plastic waste pickers

Pick the right plastic off a refuse tip, then shred, melt and convert it into feedstock for 3D printers – it’s a living for some of India’s poorest people...

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Health

MIT hackathon takes on true healthcare design challenge: The breast pump

This MIT Media Lab team will be leading a hackathon to modernize the breast pump. Most of the time, I think men can’t handle the reality of women’s health. It&r...

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Sustainable Development

The human cost of sex trafficking

In the sex trade, the demand for young girls is high due to a belief that sex with children holds less risk of HIV infection, and, in fact, can cure the disease As the cust...

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Bollywood

Mahesh Bhatt bats for Indo-Pak cultural ties, girl child

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has urged for the utilisation of cultural space as a means to foster ties between India and neighbour Pakistan. “I have always crusaded for Ind...

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Health

New drug target could prevent major global cause of maternal death

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) occurs when the uterus fails to contract vigorously after childbirth and the mother loses 500mls or more of blood in the 24 hours after deliver...

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Environment

Making students aware of sustainable development is the real protection of environment

Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Shri Prakash Javadekar has said that if students became aware of sustainable development and environment protection; it...

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Sustainable Development

Making students aware of sustainable development is the real protection of environment

Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Shri Prakash Javadekar has said that if students became aware of sustainable development and environment protection; it...

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Hollywood

Angelina Jolie Praises UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award Winners

The 2014 winner of UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award is the Colombian women’s rights group, Red Mariposas de Alas Nuevas Construyendo Futuro – or Butterflies w...

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Sustainable Development

The sanitation challenge

The U.N. set the Millennium Development Goals or the MDG between 2000 and 2015. Goals 4 and 7 was to halve the number of people without access to improved water or sanitati...

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