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Jairam Ramesh to Head Panel on Global Research Platform

Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh has been named to chair a global research platform panel on sustainable development instituted by an alliance of organisations such as U...

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Health

Injectable polio vaccine more effective than oral one: Experts

The Injectable Polio Vaccine (IPV) is more effective than the oral one, experts said here on Tuesday. They emphasised that though the IPV was expensive, it carries the inac...

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Environment

India to finally get a national air quality index

Proposed air quality index is an important step forward to achieve clean air standards and reduce public health risk, says CSE After a long wait, the Union ministry of envi...

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Environment

REUTERS SUMMIT-G20 host Australia stumbling block to global climate change action

Business and political leaders around the world, most notably in the powerhouses of the United States and China, are pressing for action to avert the potentially huge finan...

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Hollywood

Startup Spotlight: Play Works Studio develops games to get girls excited about programming, science

Two years ago at a Startup Weekend Women’s Edition event, former Amazon and Microsoft user experience designer Adriana Moscatelli was inspired to address the gender i...

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Sustainable Development

Empowering women is good for the economy

Last month, the Gujarat state government in India instituted a two-week celebration on the empowerment of women. The celebration quickly subsided when the police took actio...

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Environment

Times for action on climate change says Sunita Narain

World is running out of space and time and it is high time to raise ambition and take actual action to reduce carbon emission said Sunita Narain, the director general of th...

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Gender

Binary Opposition: The Illusion Of Duality

10001110101001 is a line of binary code, each number represents one possibility, yes or no. Descartes professed in his philosophy, the idea of Car...

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Thought Factory

Binary Opposition: The Illusion Of Duality

10001110101001 is a line of binary code, each number represents one possibility, yes or no. Descartes professed in his philosophy, the idea of Cartesian dualism: the separa...

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Health

Sweden launches life science & healthcare platform in India

Sweden on Tuesday launched a life science and healthcare platform in India with an aim to promote sustainable best practises in the sector. The platform will be an amalgama...

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