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Hydro-power plants blamed for deadly floods in India

Badly managed hydro-power projects in northern India were partly to blame for devastating floods last year that killed thousands of people and caused extensive damage, an e...

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Hollywood

Zendaya Covers John Legend For Charity

Hollywood Records’ Platinum-selling artist, Zendaya recently released a cover of John Legend’s “All of Me” for charity. Zendaya joined Max and Kurt ...

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Sustainable Development

Women's natural role overlooked in India

“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women,” said Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. The empowerment...

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Fashion

Gajra Kottary: A Woman Of Substance

“Neither yours nor mine, all the world’s children are ours. Let us give every child what she deserves and help build her today and our tomorrow.”...

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Health

Political Apathy, Unplanned Urbanisation Make Vector-Borne Diseases Hard To Control in India

Only 60 per cent of the total plan outlay for vector-borne diseases spent between 2007 to2013; lack of co-ordination between ministries and state agencies a major hurdle in...

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Hollywood

Pete Bethune Applauds International Court Verdict On Japanese Whaling

The International Court of Justice in The Hague today found in favor of Australia and New Zealand in the court case against Japan’s so-called Research Whaling in Anta...

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Health

Tuberculosis affects 1 million children annually: Study

Harvard researchers believe that over one million children suffer from tuberculosis annually — twice the number previously thought to have TB. Experts from the univer...

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Sustainable Development

A case for normalising Indo-Pak trade

A new study by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in 2013 estimates that the value of informal flow of trade from India to Pakistan is $ 4.2 billion annually At a...

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Bollywood

An Interview with Mr. Amit Khanna, Ex Chairman, Reliance Entertainment

In this Cafe Dissensus’ conversation, Mr. Amit Khanna talks about the Indian entertainment industry. Mr. Khanna had a distinguished career in the Hindi Film Industry ...

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Hollywood

Leonardo DiCaprio donated $3 million for ocean conservation

Leonardo DiCaprio donated $3 million for ocean conservation. His charity foundation, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, is wasting no time in making good use of last year’...

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