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Sustainable Development

400 million workers in India have little security, few entitlements

A new report finds that the great majority of labour in India works in one form or the other of informal employment, allowing those who pay them to dodge labour laws. In In...

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Environment

India leads the way in combating climate change

India is leading the way in efforts to combat the challenges of global warming while sceptical Americans still question climate change, according to a new global survey by ...

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Sustainable Development

Cost of growth: Global natural resources depleting by 45% a year

Analysis of data by World Bank from 136 countries shows poor countries are losing natural resources fast without gaining much by way of human resource capital or gross weal...

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Sustainable Development

Bridging the gap: a school below Delhi Metro line

Rajesh Kumar Sharma, an owner of a general store in east Delhi, runs a school under the Akshardham Metro Station Bridge, free of cost, for students of nearby villages belon...

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Movies

True Review: Chef

Critics Rating: 2.5 STARS*

Cast: Jon Favreau, Sofia Vergara, John Leguizamo, Emjay Anthony, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Dustin H...

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Bollywood

Aamir Khan’s Daughter Ira Drafts Sachin, Hrithik For Charity Football Match

Actor Aamir Khan’s passion for philanthropy, if not for acting, seems to have been passed down to his children. The actor receives as much applause for his work raisi...

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Health

Civic body launches project to supplement needs of high-risk pregnant women

In a first-of-its-kind initiative to bring down the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the city, the health wing of the Trichy Corporation on Thursday embarked on an ambitiou...

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Sustainable Development

Why do millions of Indian defecate in the open?

Its early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi. Along the tracks, another crowd is gatheri...

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Movies

True Review: Humshakals

Critics Rating: 2 STARS*

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Ram Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Tamannaah Bhatia, Esha Gupta

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Sustainable Development

The parched planet: Water on tap

Researchers are exploring unconventional sources of fresh water to quench the globe’s growing thirst. In an effort to combat his country’s long-standing water c...

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