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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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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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Environment

Communities Find Solutions to Tackling Climate Change in Flood Hit Areas in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable countries to flooding and climate change impacts. Innovative community-driven adaptations are building climate change resiliency. Ar...

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Hollywood

How Rainn Wilson Funded His Own Charity for an Entire Year in Haiti

Something as simple as asking a child what their favorite color is isn’t so simple in Haiti. According to actor Rainn Wilson and his wife Holiday Reinhorn — fou...

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Hollywood

Elton John’s Smash Hits Raises £650,000 In London

Mylan WTT Smash Hits – co-hosted by Elton John andBillie Jean King – raised more than £650,000 for theElton John AIDS Foundation during the weekend. Since...

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Environment

Climate Change: How To Make Sense of the Lima Talks

World leaders are gathering in Lima, Peru, for the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC. A primary go...

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Sustainable Development

Rickshaw drivers take 'respect for women' message to Delhi's streets

Delhi rickshaw driver Narotan Singh was never interested in the problems faced by women and girls – his only interaction with the opposite sex was with females from h...

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Bollywood

Sonakshi Sinha pledges to donate her eyes

What is common to the names like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, R. Madhavan, Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao, besides the fact that they are famous Bolly...

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Sustainable Development

Uruguay urges rooting new sustainable development agenda in human rights

The basis of a new sustainable development agenda must be poverty eradication, rooted in a strong foundation of human rights and recognition of rights, Uruguay’s Fore...

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Health

Accent on male sterilisation

Between 2008 and March 2012, the Centre, under its Family Planning Insurance Scheme, had to pay compensation for botched sterilisation procedures which included 438 cases o...

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