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Sustainable Development

World Bank sanctions $300 Million to strengthen India’s Energy Efficiency

India’s climate change commitments to reduce carbon intensity by 33-35 percent by 2030 from 2005 level wi...

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Gender

Posting a Dancing Video a Crime in Conservative Iran

How often do you come across videos of women dancing on your social media feeds? Probably, frequently, if not e...

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Environment

The SDG Report Card 2018: A Reality Check

It is indeed true that the World Bank is one of the world’s largest producers of development data and res...

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Powerful People

Dr Lakshmi Lingam: A Person with long years of Experience in Public Policy Advocacy Work in Women’s Movements in India

“The mobile phone is a revolutionary artefact of our times: it represents a great potential for resha...

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Festivals

Ambubasi Mela: A Festival that Celebrates Fertility and Rejuvenation

Guwahati’s Kamakhya Temple organizes the Ambubasi Mela (also pronounced as Ambubachi Mela) which is a fou...

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Hollywood

The Lives of People who stood up for the #MeToo Movement

The Harvey Weinstein scandal was probably the biggest news of 2017. We are aware of what happened to the accuse...

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Retroscope

Lights Still On: Portrait of a 70-year-old Photo Studio where once Bollywood’s Legendary Stars Shone Bright

 The incalculable number of photographs – running into crores – of vintage Hindi cinema’...

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Sustainable Development

Adidas and Parsley Run for the Oceans by turning Ocean Plastic into Shoes

Let's dig into some figures. Studies tell us that there’s roughly 80,000 tons of plastic polluting the Pa...

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Environment

Making Nature’s Biological Assets Visible And Valuable

There is a two-way fluid and potentially infinite interaction and innovation frontier between Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies and Nat...

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Human Rights

World Report 2018: A Call to Action more essential than A Cry of Despair

The Human Rights Watch publishes an annual World Report in which the human rights records of more than ninety c...

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