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Health

Decline In Tobacco Users In India: Healthy Sign But Smoke Signals Still Worrying

Smoking kills over one million people in India annually and is the fourth leading cause of non-communicable diseases (NCD) such as cancer and heart diseases When the Nation...

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Sustainable Development

Clean Energy Could Save Hundreds Of Billions In Health Costs Every Year

In Paris late last year, the countries of the world pledged to reduce emissions to keep global warming “well below a 2 degree Celsius” rise in global average te...

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Environment

Global Warming Prompts Farmers To Plant Fewer Crops

Rising global temperatures may have a far bigger impact on food production than previously thought according to a study of how farmers in Brazil have actually reacted to a ...

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Festivals

A Melee Of March Film Festivals In London

A long overdue celebration of a distant noir scene so good Martin Scorsese ripped it off (with The Departed) but came nowhere near the ice cool original he was aping (Infer...

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Alternative Entertainment

Loving Vincent Is The First Feature Film To Be Animated With Paintings

With the advent of computer-generated imagery (CGI), there’s no longer much place in film for handcrafted beauty. Animated films made with paper, pencils, and paintbr...

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Human Rights

“Human Rights Activists Working To Achieve Gandhi’s Objective”

Human rights activists were working in post-independent India towards achieving Mahatma Gandhi’s objective of freedom from economic and social slavery, said P.V. Raja...

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Sustainable Development

Water Building A "Planet 50:50 By 2030"

Today is International Women's Day, and this year's theme is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality!" The reference to 2030 is about the deadline for the new...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

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Human Rights

Do Children Have A Right To Be Loved?

Surely every child on Earth should be loved. That seems obvious. But is that a human right? Many international declarations adopt this view. The 1989 Declaration on the Rig...

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Bollywood

Shabana Azmi: Mainstream Hindi cinema witnessing change 

Actress Shabana Azmi has said that mainstream Hindi cinema is witnessing a change from the stereotypical portrayal of mothers and other characters in earlier times. "There ...

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