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Brad Paisley Launches Fundraising Campaign For West Virginia Flood Victims And Donates $100,000

Go Fund Me, the world’s largest online fundraising platform, is pleased to announce that country music superstar Brad Paisley has launched a Go Fund Me camp...

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Festivals

Chennai International Film Festival Kicks Off

With the participation of over 800 delegates, the13th edition of the Chennai International Film Festival was inaugurated at the Woodlands theatre in Royapettah on Wednesday...

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Environment

There's A Heat Wave Going On In The North Pole ? And That's Not Good News

Temperatures at the North Pole may not have topped the freezing mark ? there are mixed reports from different weather buoys ? but it was an unseasonably warm Wednesday at t...

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Hollywood

Michael Sheen Calls For Donations To Help Flood Victims

Actor Michael Sheen is calling for donations to help victims of the UK floods just days after he sparked a backlash by suggesting the British Government should not redirect...

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Environment

Historic Floods in Japan Force More Than 100,000 People From Their Homes

The rain came as a result of tropical storm Etau, which battered Japan's main island of Honshu and caused 20 inches of rain in some areas. The rainfall levels were twice Se...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Health

Technology, Health And Media- Searching For Breakthroughs

August 1994- Sitting in a state transport bus on way to a remote village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, I was marvelling at the greenery all around.  T...

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Thought Factory

Technology, Health And Media- Searching For Breakthroughs

August 1994- Sitting in a state transport bus on way to a remote village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, I was marvelling at the greenery all around.  T...

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Thought Factory

TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA

“Give me liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”, thundered John Milton in his famous Areopagitica, his essa...

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Environment

Getting disaster resilience right

Last year, Asia Pacific suffered 6,000 fatalities and economic losses of almost US$60 billion due to natural disasters. UNESCAP executive secretary Shamshad Akhtar outlines...

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