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Human Rights

The World Bank Should Champion Human Rights

Much of the evidence supporting the emerging consensus that strong human rights safeguards promote and enhance development has come out of research from the World Bank. Yet...

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Sustainable Development

It's Safe To Eat These 4 Crops Grown In 'Martian Soil'

Since 2013, a Dutch researcher has successfully been cultivating crops and wild plant varieties in a soil that closely resembles that from the red planet and the moon. Now ...

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Environment

Global Air Pollution Crisis 'Must Not Be Left To Private Sector'

The global air pollution crisis killing more than 6 million people a year must be tackled by governments as a matter of urgency and not just left to the private sector, a r...

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Festivals

Surf Film Festival Runs Throughout July At The Honolulu Museum Of Art

Oahu visitors looking to explore the destination's surf culture should be sure to check out the ninth annual Honolulu Surf Film Festival, a showcase of nearly 40 films runn...

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Alternative Entertainment

Surrealist Filmmaker Jan Svankmajer Is About To Make His Final Feature Film & You Can Help Produce It

No filmmaker combines live action with stop-motion quite like Jan Švankmajer, and certainly no filmmaker has used that combination to such imaginative and troubling ...

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Bollywood

Aamir Khan And Shah Rukh Khan Congratulate Indian Air Force's Newly Inducted Women Fighter Pilots

Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, besides being superstars in their own rights, have always supported many a social cause in some way or the other. So, when Indian Air Force (...

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Hollywood

Glenn Close Donates To Mental Health Association Of Central Florida

Glenn Close has donated $75,000 to the Mental Health Association of Central Florida. The six-time Oscar winner made the donation on Thursday, prior to speaking at the organ...

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Trending

Two Princeton Students Are Helping Hundreds Of Indians Learn English For Free Using Mobile Phones

A basic mobile phone can become a tool of learning, thanks to Vaasvi Goyal and Kasturi Shah’s free English teaching service:
Hello, Seekho
An eight-year-ol...

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Gender

Feminism By Thoughtful Omission In Sci-Fi & Fantasy

When I started showing an interest in science-fiction and fantasy, my mom—herself a lifelong fan of the genre—put stack after stack of books in front of me. The...

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Health

Trichy Switches To IPV In Polio Fight

On the first day of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) immunization drive in Trichy district, 436 children below the age of 1 in urban and rural areas were administered the in...

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