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Sustainable Development

Snapshots Make All The Difference In The World For UN’s 17 Goals

The United Nations has proposed 17 goals and 169 targets as the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) for a more sustainable environment. The target or the self-imposed dead...

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Alternative Entertainment

Ghachar Chochar: Vivek Shanbags Book Review

The novel written by Shanbhag, who has been compared to Chekhov, is the first of his works to translated into English Think of great Indian novels since Salman Rushdie set ...

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Environment

Indigenous Federation Sues Peru Over New National Park

One of the almost 100 resolutions adopted by the World Conservation Congress (WCC) held in Hawai’i in September 2016 was that “protected areas” such as na...

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Health

Programme to educate adolescent girls on menstrual health management

A special programme for constructing toilets with an eye on menstrual hygiene management in select high and higher secondary schools across the district is being implemente...

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Sustainable Development

Desert 'fog catchers' make water out of thin air

Fog harvesting was devised in South America in the 1980s and there are active projects in various countries including Chile, Peru, Ghana, Eritrea, South Africa and Californ...

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Festivals

Manipuri film ‘Ima Sabitri’ opens non-feature section

‘Ishti’, the opening feature film for the Indian Panorama, is set in the mid-twentieth century Kerala, when young Namboothiri Brahmins successfully challenged t...

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Health

Opinion: Tuberculosis Is A Forgotten Priority For Child Health

I was exposed to the plight of children with tuberculosis early in my 32 years of experience as a physician. I was a medical intern in a provincial hospital in Peru’s...

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Hollywood

Ricky Gervais And Moby Help Launch Animal Defenders International Online Store

Animal Defenders International (ADI) has joined forces with comedian Ricky Gervais and musician Moby to give shoppers a great way to raise money for animals in need, with t...

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Environment

Fears For Isolated Bolivian Tribe Met By Chinese Oil Firm In Amazon

Teams from a Chinese oil and gas company exploring in the remote Bolivian Amazon have reportedly had near encounters with a group of indigenous people living in what the Un...

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Money Earned From US Sales Of “Mein Kampf” Will Now Go To Holocaust Survivors

Soon American readers eager to peruse Adolf Hitler’s manifesto will be donating money to Holocaust survivors.
The US publisher of Hitler’s Mein Kampf has d...

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