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Health

Nearly 30% People In The World Are Overweight Or Obese

United States is home to the biggest chunk of obese population – 13 per cent, India and China together account for 15 per cent Considered to be one of the most compre...

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Sustainable Development

Bihar Fast-Tracks Nuclear Power Plant

Project back on track after state water resources department assures water availability from Phulwaria dam reservoir The proposal to set up the first power plant in eastern...

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Environment

US Releases Draft Rules To Cut Carbon Emissions From Coal Power Plants 30% By 2030

Rules to be finalised after public consultations aims to prevent 2,700 to 6,600 premature deaths and about 150,000 asthma attacks The United States (US) has released its dr...

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Environment

Another Hailstorm In Maharashtra, Claims 2

In a repeat of the hailstorms that devastated crops in parts of Maharashtra in March this year, several districts in western part of the state, including Marathwada region,...

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Sustainable Development

Indian Railways To Chart A New Route To Reduce GHG Emissions

Focus on low-carbon inter-urban passenger and freight transport, and tools like NAMAs for technology transfer and financing Indian Railways is in process of evolving a road...

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Hollywood

Steve Thomas To Join Habitat For Humanity’s Home Builders Blitz

Steve Thomas, the Emmy Award-winning former host of “This Old House” and “Renovation Nation,” will join professional homebuilders and construction e...

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Health

Treating tobacco-related diseases cost India Rs 16,800 crore in 2011

Spending on treating such diseases is just a little less than revenue from tobacco products; Union health minister, Harsh Vardhan, says he would press for increase in tax o...

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Sustainable Development

Will economic empathy shared by Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe enable Japan to play key role in India's growth?

Suzuki Motor Corporation’s investment in the 1980s was a transformational development in India’s economic history. It revolutionized the automobile sector, brin...

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Hollywood

Roger Moore Asks The Queen To Help Stop Wild Animal Circuses

Actors Sir Roger Moore KBE, best known as James Bond, and Imelda Staunton OBE, who stars in new Disney film Maleficent, have joined Animal Defenders International’s (...

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Hollywood

A Benefit Concert For Our Girls Of Nigeria Hosted By Tyrese Gibson And Friends

More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in northern Nigeria last month by Boko Haram, an act that drew international condemnation. With the well being of the girls in mind...

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