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Sustainable Development

India just produced its first gun for women. Is this a solution or a problem?

India appears to be following the US by making and marketing guns for women, but it won’t make women any safer

“Nirbheek” is small, light and can ...

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Thought Factory

Cyrus Mistry, Writer in Seclusion

Author Cyrus Mistry trounced competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature, for his book Chronicles of...

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Embattled French first lady Valerie Trierweiler to visit India

France’s first lady Valerie Trierweiler is returning to charity work with a trip to India, an anti-hunger group said, two weeks after she was hospitalized following a...

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Hollywood

’24’ Exec Producer Tackling Mother Teresa Biopic

“Hotel Rwanda” scribe Keir Pearson has been hired to write the screenplay.

Tony Krantz, the former head of Imagine Entertainment’s television di...

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Bollywood

Long Walk to Freedom with Big B

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan officially launched film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom in India during a special screening at a suburban theatre in Mumbai on Wednesday...

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Sustainable Development

Kerala wins UN award for sustainable tourism

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Tourism has been conferred the United Nations Award for creating innovative initiatives for sustainable tourism, the first time India has ever wo...

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Konjo The Fighting spirit by Sandeep Goyal to be launched at 2nd India Non Fiction Festival

Books to be launched at the India Non Fiction Festival

New books with interesting tales will be launched at t...

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World Bank to fund rural water supply, sanitation project in UP

LUCKNOW: The World Bank has approved a $500 million credit for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) project in four low income states — UP, Bihar, Jharkhand a...

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Sustainable Development

Bhutan set to plough lone furrow as world's first wholly organic country

Bhutan plans to become the first country in the world to turn its agriculture completely organic, banning the sales of pesticides and herbicides and relying on its own anim...

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Environment

How Climate Change affects India

Precisely at a time when India is confronted with development imperatives25, we will also be severely impacted by climate change. Like other developing countries, several s...

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