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Thought Factory

Technology, Health And Media- Searching For Breakthroughs

August 1994- Sitting in a state transport bus on way to a remote village in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, I was marvelling at the greenery all around.  T...

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Movies

50 Shades of May

May was on to an encouraging start with Gabbar Is Back, which kicked up a storm at the box office. Theanti-corruption background in films has a way of gett...

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Hollywood

A €12 Million Koons Sculpture And DiCaprio’s Banksy Sell For Charity At Cannes

Hollywood brought its obsession with contemporary art to France this week, as amFAR’s 22nd annual star-studded “Cinema Against AIDS” benefit hit the H&oci...

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Hollywood

Cinema Against AIDS Raises Over $30 Million

The 22nd annual Cinema Against AIDS gala raised more than $30 million last week in support of amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, and its pursuit of a cure for HIV/AID...

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Health

Antibiotic Resistance A Big Threat To TB Treatment In India

A joint initiative of the government, independent experts and civil society has found that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is emerging as a major health problem i...

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Sustainable Development

Salesforce CEO Takes Radical Step To Pay Men And Women Equally

Equal pay for equal work isn’t typically a mantra you hear from the chief executive of a multibillion-dollar company. Yet Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is taking the ra...

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Sustainable Development

Japan Sees Clean Energy Edging Out Nuclear Power In 2030

Japan anticipates that by 2030 clean energy such as solar and hydro will generate slightly more of the nation’s electricity than nuclear power plants. Clean energy so...

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Top 5

Top 5 Films with Human Rights Commentary

Human rights are inviolable. The Indian Constitution has held sacred the rights of the people when it comes to Right to Equality, Protection and so on. International bodies...

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Movies

April Departs

April kicked off on a good note. A really good note. The plot vagaries of Detective ByomkeshBakshy! aside, Dibakar Banerjee’s edgy adaptation at leas...

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Health

Polio Torch In Nigeria, As India Pledges Assistance

With Nigeria now in the eighth month since the last recorded infection of poliovirus, a global End Polio Now Torch has reached the country to help raise funds against the v...

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