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Child Labor Rising Sharply In India's Cities, Report Says

Urban India is employing an increasing number of children — many under 9 years old — in producing everything from pickles to fireworks, working in tourism and l...

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Human Rights

India Urged To Build Housing Law On Human Rights

India needs a housing law that is rooted in human rights as bulging cities and rising inequality make housing unaffordable for ever more people, according to a United Natio...

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Festivals

A Festival Of Films For Her

The heroine’s role in India’s first ever film was not played by a woman, but a man. In Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913), the character of Quee...

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Human Rights

India Urged To Build Housing Law On Human Rights

India needs a housing law that is rooted in human rights as bulging cities and rising inequality make housing unaffordable for ever more people, according to a United Natio...

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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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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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Sustainable Development

Entrepreneur Beats Disability: Sizzles With Food Stall At Navi Mumbai Mall

At first glance, ‘Aditi’s Corner’ in Bhoomi Mall, CBD Belapur, looks like any other eatery: a couple of chairs and tables neatly laid out; packets of chip...

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Environment

Shell's 1991 Warning: Climate Changing ‘At Faster Rate Than At Any Time Since End Of Ice Age’

Climate change “at a rate faster than at any time since the end of the ice age – change too fast perhaps for life to adapt, without severe dislocation”. T...

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Festivals

Pune-Based Filmmaker Wins 3 Awards At National Science Film festival

For his brilliant cinematic rendition of the abstruse work of a mathematical genius, city-based Nandan Kudhyadi has won three awards for the fourth docu-drama on Srinivasa ...

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Environment

There's Poison In The Air

Nearly a third of Indian cities have breached annual pollution limits mandated by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) between 2011 and 2015, according to figures fro...

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