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Human Rights

How Rural Women Are Challenging Gender-Based Exclusion From Land Ownership In India

A rural women’s movement in north India has played a significant role in dismantling the existing power structures and overcoming gender-based exclusion from ownershi...

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Where Private School Is Not A Privilege

In the United States, private school is generally a privilege of the rich. But in poorer nations, particularly in Africa and South Asia, families of all social classes send...

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Health

What No One Tells You About Getting Cancer

On Aug. 17, 2014, I finally reached the peak of a mountain I had been climbing for some time: I was in Paris, wearing a USA jersey, playing rugby in the World Cup for my ag...

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Environment

There's A New Plan To Stop Climate Change: Turn CO2 Emissions Into Stone

The project took place at the Hellisheidi Geothermal Power Station, the biggest thermal power plant in the world and the energy provider for Reykjavik, Iceland's capital. U...

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Health

UN Plans To End AIDS Threat By 2030

Speaking at a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, Health Minister J.P. Nadda reiterated India’s commitment to fa...

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Festivals

The London Indian Film Festival Brings Cinematic Diversity To London And Birmingham: 14-24 July

Challenging stereotypes of India and South Asia, and wrestling with some very hard issues the 7th Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival returns this Summer.The Direc...

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Environment

There's A New Plan To Stop Climate Change: Turn CO2 Emissions Into Stone

"It's a promising result," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science who was not involved in the project. "If this could be done at a l...

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Health

UN Plans To End AIDS Threat By 2030

Speaking at a high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday, Health Minister J.P. Nadda reiterated India’s commitment to fa...

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Gender

The Best Countries For Gender Equality May Also Have A Domestic Violence Problem

The Nordic nations are frequently held up as countries that have come as close to any in creating true gender equality. Case in point, in the World Economic Forum's 2015 Ge...

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Health

1.46 Lakh Lives Lost On Indian Roads Last Year

An official report, released by Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday, said 1.46 lakh people were killed in road accidents in India in 2015 &...

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