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Sustainable Development

A Green Revolution, This Time for Africa

Last month was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution. In 1944, Borlaug moved to Mexico to work on breeding high-yield, di...

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Environment

Climate Change Could kill 1 in 6 Earth Species

Currently, about 2.8 per cent of the species on Earth are at risk of extinction due to climate change that has already occurred. One in six species on Earth could be threat...

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Environment

Global Warming Slowdown Offers Only Fleeting Relief

Scientists show that long-term temperature rise is the inevitable consequence of increasing greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. The so-called hiatus in global warmi...

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Health

Holistic Approach To Farming Can Mitigate Agrarian Crisis: M S Swaminathan

M S Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, has flagged the issue of absence of integrated advice for farmers trapped in agrarian crisis. To address the growing dic...

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Raising Lady Gaga: Cynthia Germanotta On Why It’s Time For An Emotion Revolution

Cynthia Germanotta, president of Born This Way Foundation and mother of Lady Gaga, writes about raising her unique daughter and the Emotion Revolution, launched with Yale.<...

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Thought Factory

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

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Hollywood

Top Chef Jamie Oliver Cooks Song With Ed Sheeran, Sir Paul McCartney For 'Food Revolution Day'

The 39-year old TV Chef co-wrote the song, which also aims to educate kids about food, with Sheeran, 24, while McCartney laid down the bass for the composition on the speci...

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Let’s Talk Health:’Obesity’

CNN-IBN, India’s most awarded English news channel, in collaboration with the Apollo Hospitals presents ‘Let’s Talk Health’ – a unique show th...

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Emmy Noether Revolutionized Mathematics — And Still Faced Sexism All Her Life

Emmy Noether was one of the most brilliant and important mathematicians of the 20th century. She altered the course of modern physics. Einstein called her a genius. Yet tod...

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Sustainable Development

Design That Solves Problems For The World?s Poor

“A billion customers in the world,” Dr. Paul Polak told a crowd of inventors recently, “are waiting for a $2 pair of eyeglasses, a $10 solar lantern and a...

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