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India’s Forest Cover Increasing, Better Than World Average, Says Union Environment Secretary

Ajay Narayan Jha, secretary, ministry of environment and forests, said at the inauguration of the 19th Commonwealth forestry conference that began at the Forest Research In...

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Human Rights

South Asian Govts Take 20 Plus Years to Turn Women's Deamnds ...

I am sad about the state of the official SAARC. There is still little connectivity between some of our countries. I have had to travel from Delhi to Islamabad via Abu Dhabi...

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Sustainable Development

Sarah Parcak Is A Space Archaeologist. Soon You Will Be Too

To be fair, she’s not so much playing as she is demonstrating, but nonetheless, Parcak is sitting in a fancy New York restaurant and is definitely not eating her $12 ...

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Environment

'Irreversible Consequences': Adani Coalmine Granted Unlimited Water Access For 60 Years

Adani’s controversial $21bn Carmichael coalmine has been granted an unlimited 60-year water licence in what environmental and legal groups say is another example of g...

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Festivals

The Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles

This spring Los Angeles will be home to quality cinema from India. And like spring, it will bring the colors of India—its culture and languages, its people, their str...

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Alternative Entertainment

Why I Wrote A Play About William Wordsworth

I wrote a PhD on the poet William Wordsworth many years ago. More recently I returned to the subject to write a play about him. It opens at The Theatre by the Lake, in Kesw...

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Bollywood

Manoj Bajpayee Encourages Women To Learn Self-Defence

National Award winning actor Manoj Bajpayee has appeared in a special video, titled "Manoj Bajpayee | #HitBack", in which he can be seen motivating todays women to learn se...

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Dalai Lama's Emotional Reunion With Guard Who Aided Flight From Tibet

The first time they met, Indian paramilitary guard Naren Chandra Das was ordered not to talk to the bespectacled young soldier he was escorting near the Chinese border in a...

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Gender

Women's Prize For Fiction 2017

The 2017 shortlist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction has been announced, featuring six novels by female authors writing in English from across the globe. Set up in ...

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Health

The Ambitious Mental Healthcare Bill Is A Step Closer To A Progressive India

Breaking away from ‘institutionalised care’, India on March 27, 2017 took a progressive step towards implementing a rights-based approach to safeguarding and pr...

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