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Environment

Supporters Of A UN Climate Pact Say It’s An Economic Issue — Not Just a Moral One

It's the Holy Grail of climate change ? reducing fossil-fuel emissions without slashing the growth needed to lift billions of the world's people out of poverty. With the cl...

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Sustainable Development

Government Keen To Operationalise Emergency Helpline For Women By 2017

Over two years after the Nirbhaya incident brought the focus on women safety, the government has kick-started the process to set up a single emergency response number acros...

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Environment

Joint Statement on Climate Change between India and China during Prime Minister’s visit to China

The Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as 'the Two Sides') recognize that climate change and ...

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Thought Factory

Piracy And The Right To Entertainment

Walking through a busy Pali market in Bandra, Mumbai, on Saturdays, it’s almost certain to see ladies haggling over the size and shape of fruits and vegetables with t...

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Thought Factory

Abstract Property: Imperialism of Ideas

Science and religion have been polarized over the issue of consciousness since time immemorial. Science attributes this fundamental function of our species to tiny volts of...

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Environment

Govt Begins Giving Out Daily Air Quality Bulletin For 11 Cities

Exactly a month after launching the national Air Quality Index (AQI), which had its share of teething problems, the Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesda...

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TV

TELEVISION?S NEW POSTER GIRL

Priyanka Chopra?s career in Bollywood is anything but over. Always looking for something new, her TV debut in the US series Quantico comes as no surprise.? Miss World 2000 ...

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Bollywood

Shashi Kapoor Receives DadaSaheb Phalke Award At Prithvi Theatre

A large number of personalities from Bollywood including many of the heroines who shared screen space stood in loud ovation as veteran actor-filmmaker Shashi Kapoor receive...

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Health

Reducing Neonatal And Maternal Deaths In India

India accounts for more than one fourth neonatal global death figures. A neonatal death is defined as a death during the first 28 days of life (0-27 days). Early neonatal d...

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Environment

China's Green-Energy Revolution

China generates most of its electricity by burning fossil fuels, just as every rising economic power has done since the Industrial Revolution. But to focus on this single f...

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