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Human Rights

Growing Child Labour In India's Cities Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg, Say Activists

Urban India is employing an increasing number of children - many under nine years of age - in producing everything from pickles to fireworks, working in tourism and labouri...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica

Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced a new record high temperature of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit for the continent of Antarctica. The temperat...

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Environment

Watching Birds Near Home Eases Sadness & Worries

Watching birds around your home may help overcome sadness and worry, a new study in UK has found. Researchers from the University of Exeter in UK, the British Trust for Orn...

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Festivals

Taiwan Film Takes Second Place In Indian Short Film Festival

The Taiwanese film "Way Back Home," directed by graduate student Cheng Tang-jung (程堂榮), has won second place for Best Short Fiction at the 4th Chennai International S...

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Alternative Entertainment

Amitabh Bachchan Bats For Gender Equality In A Powerful Twitter Post

Amid worldwide debates and discussions on gender equality, equal rights for men and women both at workplace and otherwise, gender pay gap etc, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Ba...

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Bollywood

Violence In Any Context Not Justified: Swara Bhaskar On Ramjas Row

Bollywood actress Sawara Bhaskar has condemned the Ramjas College incident, saying no amount of explanation can justify violence. Last week, Delhi University's Ramjas Colle...

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Hollywood

Smurfs Team Up With United Nations For A Happier, More Peaceful And Equitable World

The popular Smurfs characters are encouraging children, young people and adults to make the world happier, more peaceful, equitable and healthy with a campaign launched tod...

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Gender

Pension Gender Gap Creates $59,000 Shortfall for Women

Women can expect to be shortchanged by their pensions to the tune of nearly £47,000 ($59,000) over their career, according to a new study released by Zurich Insurance...

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Health

Depression Single Largest Contributor To Global Disability, Says WHO

Over 300 million people (4.3 per cent) of the global population were living with depression in 2015, a new World Health Organization (WHO) study says. This is an 18 per cen...

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Human Rights

Is Public Health Bill Finally Ready?

A Bill pending for over a decade — that aims to deal with emergency health situations and control, and management of diseases likely to cause major epidemics — ...

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