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Gender parity in workforce can boost India’s GDP by 27%: IMF chief Christine Lagarde

India’s GDP can expand by a whopping 27 per cent if the number of female workers increases to the same level as that of men, International Monetary Fund’s chief...

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The Benefits of Mobile Health, on Hold

The world now has 5 billion mobile phones – one for every person over 15. Africa has a billion people and 750 million phones, and mobile is growing so fast there that...

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It Turns Out Earth Has Seven Times as Many Trees as Previously Thought

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers describe using a combination of satellite imaging, boots on the ground trees-counting, and forest inventor...

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Govt to Ask Flipkart, Amazon & Snapdeal To Sell Solar/Wind Powered Products

The government of late seems to be betting big on renewable sources of power. Just a few months back, Government approved Masayoshi Son’s Softbank to partner with Tai...

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How Toronto International Film Festival Is Planning To Expand Its Global Footprint & Widen Its Focus

Two years ago, after the screening of the Partition drama Qissa at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Irrfan Khan sat down with his co-stars and director for a...

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True Review TV - Intrigues And Valour At Prime Time

I, a history buff, have been drawn to two current shows on weekdays at Prime Time -- Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat on Colors and Bharat Ka Veer Putra Maharana Pratap on Sony. ...

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Japan Is Building A Giant Robotic Lettuce Factory

Indoor lettuce-growing is in vogue. And it’s being taken over by robots.In 2016, Japanese vegetable production company Spread plans (pdf) to begin building a lettuce ...

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The United Nations Must Acknowledge That Mental Health Is A Development Goal

Around the world, some of the “treatments” for mental illness include being chained, isolated in a prison cell and physically abused. These human rights violati...

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The UN’s Sustainability Plan Is ‘Doomed,’ According to Linguistic Analysis.

The UN will launch its 2030 Sustainable Development agenda at the end of this month in New York City, where it will be formally adopted by over 150 world leaders after year...

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Why More Mediators Should Be Women?

The significance of 2015 continently and globally in the drive for women’s empowerment and the achievement of gender equality provides a useful backdrop to assess eff...

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