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Sustainable Development

National rubber policy must protect growers, urges planters’ association

The proposed national policy on rubber should reflect the real concerns of all stakeholders in the sector and protect the livelihoods of rubber growers in the country, urge...

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Sustainable Development

400 million workers in India have little security, few entitlements

A new report finds that the great majority of labour in India works in one form or the other of informal employment, allowing those who pay them to dodge labour laws. In In...

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Hollywood

Box Office: Girl Power! Women-led Features Dominate With, The Fault In Our Stars Taking #1, Maleficent #2

Walk into a theater over the weekend and you were likely to have seen it populated by the female persuasion. On the heels of Maleficent‘s $70 million opening and Ange...

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Sustainable Development

Sewage main reason for poor-quality river water

An environmental monitoring programme carried out by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology, and Environment (KSCSTE) in five river basins across the State has re...

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Hollywood

Roger Moore Asks The Queen To Help Stop Wild Animal Circuses

Actors Sir Roger Moore KBE, best known as James Bond, and Imelda Staunton OBE, who stars in new Disney film Maleficent, have joined Animal Defenders International’s (...

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Health

Teenager diagnosed with HIV at 18 claims he ‘learned nothing’ at school about the dangers of unprotected sex

An HIV-positive teenager has today called for lessons about the virus to become compulsory in all schools, claiming he learned nothing of it in sex eduction classes.

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Hollywood

Neighbors': How Women Raised the Box-Office Roof for Loud, Lewd Comedy Smash

Universal made it a date movie, drew more women than men, scored a $51 million opening and may have launched a sequel Loud and lewd, the raucous comedy “Neighbors&rdq...

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Hollywood

Top 100 Movies of All Time… By Female Directors

Everyone has lists. AFI has lists. Spike Lee has lists. Sight & Sound has lists. But in all this listmaking, more often than not, female directors get shafted. Sure, so...

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Thought Factory

Theatre Of The Administration Of The Agitators

There’s a sort of sinister tone to the times we are living in and experiencing as each day unfolds and takes us closer to an impending political circus which has comm...

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Eye Think

Happiness: A Goal Worth Pursuing

As daunting as it may be, defining what makes us happy is imperative in modern society. The Neolithic revolution, which took place approximately 12 thousand years ago, was ...

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