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All India Radio Turns 80: 5 Things You May Want To Know

AIR plans to broadcast ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme to several countries and in multiple languages, says a top official State-owned All India Radio (AIR) has earned...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - Kiddie Party

As summer vacations draw to a close, the marvellous season of children’s plays also comes to a halt. Very few groups who work on children’s theatre during the s...

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Gender

The Gender Gap Nobody’s Talking About

According to the writer Malcolm Gladwell, 10,000 hours of practice is what it takes to become world class at most things. Part of the reason the Beatles were the Beatles, h...

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Health

India To Vaccinate 300,000 Children After Polio Strain Found In Sewage

India plans to urgently immunize around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was detected in sewage in the sou...

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Environment

There's A New Plan To Stop Climate Change: Turn CO2 Emissions Into Stone

"It's a promising result," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science who was not involved in the project. "If this could be done at a l...

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Bollywood

Preity Zinta Lends Support Towards Drought

The actress recently constructed a well in a village near Nasik city in Maharashtra that was inaugurated on Sunday. Preity Zinta, who was in the news for her private weddin...

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Hollywood

Elton John And Desmond Tutu Pen Op-Ed On Making Aids History

Elton John and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu penned an op-ed published on CNN.com about the United Nations’ 2016 High Level Meeting on Ending AIDS to be held this ...

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Sustainable Development

This School Goes Door-To-Door, To Roads, Railway Stations To Educate Children

Started in 1988 with a small slum in Cuffe Parade, Ranjani Paranjpe and Bina Lashkari went from door to door, speaking to parents and asking their children to join their sc...

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Environment

Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct By Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say

Australia — Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first...

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Human Rights

Over 900 Human Rights Violation Cases Pending

Over 900 cases of human rights violation in various forms, including that of by men in uniform, are still pending before the Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC). This can ...

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