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Environment

Ontario Seeks To Put A Cap On Water Bottle Industry With Two-Year Ban

The Ontario government has proposed a two-year moratorium on the creation or expansion of bottled water operations fed by groundwater in the Canadian province, in a bid to ...

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Festivals

Manoj Bajpayee To Kickstart South Asian Film Festival Of Paris

Actor Manoj Bajpayee  will kickstart the South Asian Film Festival of Paris (FFAST) tomorrow in the French capital. The festival which is in its 4th edition has invite...

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Alternative Entertainment

The Man Who Is Reviving An Ancient Urdu Storytelling Form Using Sufism, Ramayana & More

Dastangoi is an ancient form of storytelling in Urdu that would have been erased from the collective imagination of Indians if it hadn’t been for the dedicated effort...

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Gender

How An American In Dharamshala Created Tibet’s First Women’s Football Team To Fight Sexism

In their modest homes in Dharamsala, a hill station in Himachal Pradesh, young Tibetan girls prepare their bags for a football camp while their mothers make tea. One of the...

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Health

Condoms On Call: An SMS Can Save You From Having That Baby

If you are still shy of buying a condom or if you just remembered that you needed lube, here’s help at hand. Here are two initiatives helping people avoid being embar...

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Human Rights

Jason Isaacs Meets Foster Family In Mumbai, Says A Lot Of Work Required For Child Rights

Even as India is gradually opening its gates to foster care and has only recently laid down guidelines for group foster care, British actor Jason Isaacs has already started...

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Sustainable Development

For The First Time, Researchers Bridge Quantum Computers On A Single Chip

Despite the rapid emergence of mobile devices and cloud computing, it's still intuitive to think of computers as relatively self-contained systems. And, as self-contained s...

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Environment

This New Technology Could Save The Troubled Nuclear Power Industry

The future of the nuclear industry may happen somewhere on scenic but relatively isolated land that’s about 100 miles southwest of Yellowstone National Park. Amid the...

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Festivals

Boring Movies Can Be Great: A Defense Of ‘Paterson’ And ‘Everything Else’ — NYFF

The following essay was written by a participant in the 2016 New York Film Festival Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring critics co-produced by Indie Wire, the Film Soc...

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Alternative Entertainment

Fighting Vitamin A Deficiency With A New Kind Of Sweet Potato, Radio, And People Power

Sometimes a small change can make a big difference. Across sub-Saharan Africa, a new kind of sweet potato is helping families guard against vitamin A deficiency. Radio is h...

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