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Thora Birch Speaks Out Against Cruel Cosmetics Tests On Animals

Actress Thora Birch has joined Cruelty Free International in calling for an end to animal testing in the American beauty industry. “It is a shame that in the United S...

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Bollywood

Thora Birch Speaks Out Against Cruel Cosmetics Tests On Animals

Actress Thora Birch has joined Cruelty Free International in calling for an end to animal testing in the American beauty industry. “It is a shame that in the United S...

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Health

It’s time to bring HIV prevention drugs out of the closet

May 14 should have been PrEP’s big coming out moment. That’s when the federal government issued new guidelines urging doctors to adopt the use of PrEP – a...

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Hollywood

Sparks fly as 'Girls Can' campers learn welding, wiring and more

“This is something I really, really want to do,” said Baker High School sophomore Courtney Hutton, as she worked in the welding shop at Bryant Career Technical ...

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Sustainable Development

Fixing India?s Sanitation Problem Requires More Than Toilets

Here is a number most of you know: more people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Moreover, 60% of hous...

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Sustainable Development

More than 80 billion tons of mineral reserves in India yet to be tapped

Over 80 billion tons of India’s mineral reserves are yet to be tapped as the domestic mining sector has been waiting for exploitation of its full potential despite a ...

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Health

A simple yet rare solution

Iron deficiency in newborns can be checked if doctors wait for two minutes before cutting the umbilical cord More than 75 per cent infants in India suffer from anaemia or i...

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Health

HIV infection due to unsafe medical injections may have fallen by almost 90% worldwide in decade after 2000

The number of HIV infections in low- and middle-income acquired due to unsafe medical injections by 87% between 2000 and 2010, investigators report in PLOS One. The authors...

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Sustainable Development

In Kerala, farmers fight to preserve world’s only variety of salt-resistant rice – and the ecosystem

Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani search for clouds along the west coast, they meet farmers who are attempting to return to a traditional system of alternating paddy and s...

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Sustainable Development

Punjab farmers try religious route to shun pesticides

Ask religious institutions to grow organic crops and accept organic crops as donation for langars In Pandori Ragsangh village in Amritsar, farmer leader Gurlal Singh takes ...

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