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Sustainable Development

Empowering women is the smart approach to sustainable development

As the Asia Pacific Conference on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment is convened in Bangkok, UN ESCAP executive secretary Shamsad Akthar shares that empo...

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Sustainable Development

Building a lasting peace: where are the women?

Fourteen years ago, the UN Security Council officially recognised the importance of fully-involving women in all peace and security efforts in Resolution 1325. But when we ...

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Movies

True Review: Interstellar

Director: Christopher Nolan

Cast: Matthew Mc Conaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine

Rating: 4 s...

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Movies

True Review: Week-ends [Spoiler Alert]

Critics Rating: 3.5 stars*

Cast: Karin Viard, Noémie Lvovsky, Jacques Gamblin, Ulrich Tukur, Aurélia Petit.

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Health

Pricing row hits pharma industry

Last week’s announcement by the country’s drug price regulator doing away with a provision that permitted it to determine the price of drugs considered ‘n...

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Hollywood

Cause celebs: Ten Hollywood A listers who are trying to change the world

Currently the heroine of humanitarian causes, Angelina Jolie has been a special envoy to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees since 2012, after a decade as a goodwill amba...

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Health

Conflict Keeps Mothers From Healthcare Services

Twenty-five-year-old Khemwanti Pradhan is a ‘Mitanin’ – a trained and accredited community health worker – based in the Nagarbeda village of the Bas...

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Gender

Conflict Keeps Mothers From Healthcare Services

Twenty-five-year-old Khemwanti Pradhan is a ‘Mitanin’ – a trained and accredited community health worker – based in the Nagarbeda village of the Bas...

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Environment

Climate change could see rise of violent conflict in India, warns new report

A new report from the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University warns that India is vulnerable to ?climate conflict?, due to climate change having an impa...

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Festivals

20 must watch movies at 5th Jagran Film Festival, Mumbai

The 5th edition of Jagran Film Festival has become bigger and better. Travelling to 16 cities across 7 states, the festival has n...

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