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World Health Day To Focus On Food Safety This Year

Food poisoning and diarrhoeal infection are the two leading causes of food-borne illnesses in India. Moreover, due to lack of laboratories and shortage of manpower, many ou...

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Human Rights

62,500 Child Marriages In Tamil Nadu, Chennai Leads

Chennai tops the list of districts in TN with most married girls under 15 years of age, according to recent data released by Census 2011. With 5,480 girls under the age of ...

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Festivals

Jewish, French Film Festivals Return To Lower Hudson Valley

The Academy Awards recently honored the best of the best in motion pictures but Hollywood is not the only place celebrating great films. Our own local film season is right ...

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Bollywood

Evelyn Sharma To Launch School Of Seams

Amidst several actresses who have extended their support to varied social causes, one amongst them is Evelyn Sharma. The actress, who launched her Seams For Dreams (SFD) la...

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Hollywood

Celebrities Speak Out Against Monkey Experiments In University Lab

Joanna Lumley, Moby, Peter Egan and world-renowned primatologist, Jane Goodall lead a 40,000-strong call for mercy for twenty four monkeys facing experiments in Scandinavia...

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itv Network Celebrates World Water Day By Launching Water Sustainability Project With Aquakraft

World Water Day is marked on 22 March every year. It’s a day to celebrate existence and significance of water in our daily life. It’s a day to make a difference...

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Gender

Resistant Is Gender Equality A Design Problem?

Simple redesigns of working life can make big differences in helping women overcome institutional biases. Because humans are naturally biased—we evolved to use stereo...

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Health

Medicine For Drug - Resistant TB Launched

On the eve of World Tuberculosis Day, Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched Bedaquiline — new drug for Drug Resistant TB — as part of the national programme. The ...

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Human Rights

Bonded Labourers In Brick Kilns Slowly Learn They Have Rights

Thousands of brick kiln workers in Maharashtra are learning from activists that they have the right to a minimum wage, basic amenities and fair treatment - but remain in de...

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Festivals

Monuments Toronto’s Hot Docs Film Festival Will Open With League Of Exotique Dancers, An Homage To The Golden Age Of Burlesque

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival opens with Toronto filmmaker Rama Rau’s League of Exotique Dancers, a revealing visit to Las Vegas and the go...

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