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Environment

Earth Day 2016: Five Inspiring Facts

How To Do Your Bit On Friday, leaders from 160 countries will officially sign the Paris Climate Agreement on Earth Day 2016. The deal was thrashed out in Paris last Decembe...

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Human Rights

On The Margins In A City Of Dreams

A week after a fire broke out in the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai, fires in smaller pockets continue to blaze. But toxic smoke is only an addition to a long list of prob...

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Environment

Paying The Price Of Climate Change In Human Health

Increasing frequency and severity of deadly typhoons in the Pacific, flooding in Chennai, India, the total desiccation of Lake Poopó, the second largest lake in Boli...

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Environment

China's Environment Minister Wants More Power To Crack Down On Polluters

China's environment minister, Chen Jining, said on Thursday that the government needed more power to go after polluters and local government officials that impede complianc...

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Trending

GDP Data To Show Economy Racing, Realities Less Rosy

India will release data on Monday showing it remains one of the fastest growing economies in the world, but economists are struggling to reconcile that rosy picture with gr...

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Trending

Mobile Net Users To Be 371 Mn By June 2016

The number of mobile internet users in India is expected to reach 371 million by June 2016. There were 306 million mobile internet users in India in December 2015. Of the 3...

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Hollywood

Dolly Parton Gives Free Books To Kids In The UK.

Dolly Parton and her Imagination Library are providing free books to every child born in the South London borough of Southwark until the end of the year.Every child born in...

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Retroscope

The Darkest Hour

“Police records in India reveal that a woman is raped every 34 minutes, molested every 26 minutes, kidnapped every 43 minutes and killed every 93 minutes”
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Festivals

Canada's Coolest Film Festival?

Every year as I make my annual pilgrimage to the Whistler Film Festival in British Columbia, I vow to take up some wintry pursuit such as skiing (or bobsled racing!), in be...

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Bollywood

Huma Qureshi Visits Haryana To Support Women Empowerment

Huma Qureshi recently attended the closure event of Breakthroughs ‘Mission Hazaar’ initiative. The event took place on 28th December in Rohtak, Haryana. The act...

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