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Madhuri Dixit works with UNICEF

Madhuri Dixit has been confirmed as UNICEF’s latest celebrity ambassador. The veteran Bollywood actor will raise awareness of children’s and women’s right...

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Environment

CO2 emissions in ASEAN from transport sector will double by 2050, warns energy agency

If the International Energy Agency (IEA) is to be believed, the amount of carbon emissions from transport in ASEAN nations will double by 2050. At the same time, carbon emi...

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Health

Scientists make DNA barcode of malaria parasite

An international team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, has identified segments in the DNA of malaria-causing parasi...

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Environment

Climate change to almost triple risk of extreme Indian Ocean weather events

While the world is worried about an El Nino forming in the Pacific, a similar phenomenon may be under way in the Indian Ocean Shifting climate patterns in the Indian Ocean,...

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Sustainable Development

Sea Pollution Rate Alarming; Let’s Check It

Every year June 8 is observed as the World Ocean Day to underscore a need to protect the great body of salt water, which covers 70.78 per cent of the earth’s surface....

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Hollywood

Beyonce gives donation to a TED Fellow that could potentially save 1,900 babies

Jane Chen knew that, for her infant warmer to save lives, moms would need to be the evangelists for the device. But she had no idea that one of the world’s most famou...

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Environment

Climate Change Causes Winner And Losers In Penguins

Penguin species in the Antarctic that once benefited from rising temperatures are now in decline due to warming gone too far, scientists said Thursday. Previous scientific ...

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Environment

Defence projects, border roads will not require green nod from Centre : Javadekar

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi may have struck a very cordial note during his visit to India this week, but the new Narendra Modi government seems to be leaving no stone ...

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Sustainable Development

Defence projects, border roads will not require green nod from Centre : Javadekar

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi may have struck a very cordial note during his visit to India this week, but the new Narendra Modi government seems to be leaving no stone ...

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Health

Will global polio eradication miss yet another deadline?

When the world embarked on polio eradication 26 years back, the goal was to complete that task by the year 2000. That target was not met, nor did the two deadlines set afte...

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