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Flyover Memories

December 1, 2014 isn?? just significant as the Golden Anniversary of the Eucharistic Congress and the first ever visit of a pontiff to India. It is also memorable for the s...

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Sustainable Development

Industrialisation, urbanisation killing elephants in Odisha

The status of “National Heritage Animal” to elephants has done little to save them, and at least 427 jumbos have perished in the last seven years in Odisha. Tho...

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Sustainable Development

Social Norms Biggest Challenge in Child Rights: UNICEF

Prevailing social norms such as early marriage and child labour are the biggest challenge in implementing child rights in the country, a UNICEF official said. “The ma...

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Festivals

Film Offices cements film collaborations at Film Bazaar

Goa, November 2014:Film Offices is a new segment that has been introduced at Film Bazaar 2014 organized by NFDC, held from 20th...

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Health

Cases of rising infant deaths in tribal hamlets worry officials

Efforts to counsel Lambada tribal women on the importance of protecting girl child notwithstanding, the Women and Child Welfare Department is worried over the increasing in...

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Sustainable Development

Building a lasting peace: where are the women?

Fourteen years ago, the UN Security Council officially recognised the importance of fully-involving women in all peace and security efforts in Resolution 1325. But when we ...

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Environment

U.S. and China Reach Climate Deal After Months of Talks

BEIJING ? China and the United States made common cause on Wednesday against the threat of climate change, staking out an ambitious joint plan to curb carbon emissions as a...

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Environment

PM?s climate change council recast

The Union government reconstituted the Prime Minister?s Council on Climate Change on Wednesday to coordinate the National Action Plan for Assessment, Adaptation and Mitigat...

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Health

‘Malnourishment declined sharply among children in India’

The proportion of underweight children in India might have declined from 45.1 per cent in 2005-6 to a historic low of 30.7 per cent last year, new provisional data from a s...

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Health

Immunising children is a growth strategy

This has been a truly extraordinary year for India. Not just because 2014 saw more than half a billion people cast their vote in the world’s largest democratic electi...

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