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India Home To Highest Number Of Undernourished Women In Developing World

A recently-released study has highlighted that more than 18 million women in low- and middle-income countries around the world are severely undernourished. The study w...

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Environment

A Big Earthquake Just Hit Oklahoma — And It Might Be the Oil Industry’s Fault

The quake struck at?1:42am?and was centered just southwest of Cherokee, Oklahoma, the US Geological Survey reported. It was the biggest to hit the area this year, but there...

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Hollywood

Hollywood Executives' Quiet Ban On Women In The Movies, By The Numbers.

On Monday, L.A. Weekly’s cover story, “How Hollywood Keeps Out the Stories of Women and Girls,” reported on the dearth of films written by women...

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Environment

Dwindling Snowpack Around The World Threatens The Water Supply For 2 Billion People

Scientists from Stanford University and Columbia University's Earth Institute?said?that if greenhouse gas emissions continue along their current trajectory, about 97 snow-d...

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Festivals

Cine Central Film Festival Showcases Movies From 17 Countries

Bangladeshi film “Mritika Maya” (Earthen Love), an emotional tale of an old potter, is part of an eclectic package of films being shown at a film festival here ...

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Environment

Unless Earth Is Hit By A Huge Asteroid, 2015 Will Likely Be The Hottest Year On Record

"This marked the sixth consecutive month a monthly global temperature record has been broken and was also the?greatest departure from average for any month?in the 1,630 mon...

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Health

WHO Survey Reveals Public Misunderstanding About Antibiotic Resistance

Public knowledge about antibiotic resistance is still weak and this is something we should worry about. A new survey conducted in a number of countries shows that people ha...

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Environment

This App Will Tell You Exactly How Much You’re Destroying the Planet

Rather, the primary obstacle to combating climate change remains social in nature, which is why a team of researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ...

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Retroscope

MANNA DEY

It was in late 1996 that I started the Bimal Roy Memorial with a view to honour my father, whose films continued to thrill audiences, and still do. Very few individuals fro...

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Health

Maternal Mortality On A Decline, But Challenges Remain

The number of women dying during pregnancy, childbirth or within six weeks after birth has fallen by 44 per cent since 1990, say United Nations agencies, including the...

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