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Human Rights

Satyarthi Demands UN Intervention To Save Children In Conflict Zones

Over 1,500 children assembled at the Raj Ghat here today for a ‘peace gathering’ in the wake of suspected chemical attack in Syria in which 27 children among ot...

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Sustainable Development

Quadriplegic Man Regains Use Of Arms With Brain-Computer Interface

A man paralyzed from the shoulders down regained some use of his arms and hands via a brain-computer interface, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University....

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Environment

Climbers Prepare For Clean-Up Mission On Mount Everest

The government of Nepal and Everest expedition organisers have launched a clean-up operation at 21,000ft to remove rubbish left on the world’s highest peak after a se...

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Environment

Thames Water Hit With Record £20m Fine For Huge Sewage Leaks

Massive fine reflects change in sentencing as previously low penalties failed to deter water firms from polluting England’s rivers and beaches Thames Water has been h...

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FICCI Frames 2017: India-Canada Co-Production Partnership In Film Making Spelt Out

MUMBAI, 21 March, 2017: In the session on ‘Partnership in Progress: Indo- Canadian Co-Productions’ at FICCI FRAMES 2107, the spotlight was on the mysteries asso...

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Hollywood

Pamela Anderson Celebrates Swiss Seal-Fur Ban

As of April 1, products from Canada’s commercial seal slaughter will be illegal in Switzerland — and PETAHonorary Director Pamela Anderson, who wrote to Swiss o...

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11 Landmark Judgments By The Indian Supreme Court In Recent Times

On the 15th of April, 2014, the Supreme Court of India (in an unexpected show of decency) decided to recognise the transgender community as a third gender, availing them of...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Chhattisgarh Farmer Took It Upon Himself To Educate Visually-Challenged Children

Barun Kumar Pradhan may be a farmer, but for the people in his village in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, he is no ordinary man. Through a free residential school, Pradhan has been ...

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Health

UP’s Healthcare Paradox: From Worse Than Haiti To Better Than Rest OIf India

At a time when India’s sex ratio at birth is low and declining–from 909 (2011) to 887 (2014)–there are, in poor, populous Uttar Pradesh (UP), districts su...

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Environment

A Crack In An Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles In the Last Two Months

A rapidly advancing crack in Antarctica’s fourth-largest ice shelf has scientists concerned that it is getting close to a full break. The rift has accelerated this ye...

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