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Human Rights

'Stand Up For Someone's Rights Today,' UN Urges On Human Rights Day

Upholding human rights is in the interest of all and are at the heart of the work and identify of the United Nations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed ahead of Hu...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Are Making Artificial Ice Storms

Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of catastrophic weather events in the coming years. Regardless of how much carbon we c...

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Festivals

Science Gets Raw: Film Festival Celebrates Science Communication, Exploration, Giant Robots

Maxx the gigantic (and somewhat intimidating) robot wants you to get back into the theater. The premiere of a new film about the first colonists to travel to Mars is about ...

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Health

Growing Up Stunted

Shivraj, namesake of the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, lost his one-year-old son Dharmraj in August this year. “His growth was extremely slow, and he was getting ...

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Human Rights

The Hipster Hunger For Superfoods Is Starving India's Adivasis

Every morning, Baisa, a forest-dwelling Karbi woman, gets up at 4 am to forage fresh wild edible plants and insects from the forest. At the market in Diphu, Baisa is able t...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Comic Heroine That’s Fighting The Evil Skin Whitening Industry

India’s beauty industry thrives on the country’s ugly obsession with fair complexions and skin lightening products. Prejudice against darker skinned people, esp...

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Gender

Pillar Of Strength: Meet Triveni Acharya, A Woman Who Has Been Fighting Sex-Traffickers Since 1993

In 2007, Trivani Acharya spent sleepless nights trying to track down two girls who had disappeared after expressing their desire to be rescued from the field of sex trade. ...

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Hollywood

Morgan Freeman Joins Stand Up To Cancer And Genentech In New PSA

Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, have collaborated on a new public service announcement (PSA) featuring Academy Award-winning actor and...

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Environment

Will The Internet Of Things Sacrifice Or Save The Environment?

The internet of things (IoT) – that ever-expanding ecosystem of digital sensors, home appliances and wearable smart devices – attracts its fair share of attenti...

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Festivals

This Film Festival Celebrates The Best In Drone Cinematography

Some drone owners fly their quadcopters up and down in a park. Maybe their backyard. They might even sometimes make little loops in the air. That’s neat. A select few...

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