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Lima: Climate Change Optimism Returns to Earth

The Lima Climate Change Conference (COP20), held under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), concluded in the early hours of S...

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Sustainable Development

80% of smokeless tobacco users in India, Bangladesh: report

The first-ever report on the global use and public health impact of smokeless tobacco has found that more than 300 million people in at least 70 countries use the carcinoge...

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Hollywood

Usher And Scholastic Donate 100,000 New Children's Books To Charity

Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced that a donation of 100,000 new children’s books from The Scholastic P...

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Bollywood

John Abraham wants to open facility for ailing underprivileged children

Actor-producer John Abraham says he wants to fulfill his mother’s desire and build a facility for the treatment of underprivileged children suffering from cancer. Joh...

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Health

Processed food now a cause for higher incidence of non- communicable diseases

In an alarming trend, an international research group has observed that with rising incomes, the global shift from traditional foods and cereals to processed foods is gradu...

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Environment

India Betters China in Climate-change Efforts

China and US are the biggest polluters in the world, with India ranking third, according to the 2015 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) report. The CCPI, put out by Ge...

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Sustainable Development

Women?s empowerment key to ending violence

DOREEN NAWA, Lusaka UNDER the banner “Peace begins at home: End violence, empower women” Gender Links is calling for a radical shift in approaches to ending vio...

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Hollywood

Richard Branson Launches Study To Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

Richard Branson and Virgin Unite have launched a new study aimed at reversing Type 2 Diabetes. “The Caribbean, where I’ve been living for nearly four decades no...

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Bollywood

Dia Mirza extends support to NGO ‘Rural Is Cool’

“The very distinct goals of Swades Foundation and the effort being made to achieve these goals is admirable and inspiring. I’m grateful for the opportunity to b...

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Health

Safe babies for HIV-infected mothers

Motherhood is a feeling every woman wants to experience. HIV-infected women are no exceptions. Like normal expecting mothers, they too can deliver a baby who is not HIV inf...

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