Climate-friendly investments key in sustainable development

Businesses that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote renewable energy, and other such agenda that help lessen climate change impact took the spotlight at a fringe event...

Movie Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Rating: 3 stars

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lilly

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George H. W. Bush Honored With Liberty And Justice For All Award

“The period of his presidency stands as a well-remembered time when those qualities characterized leadership in our country at the highest levels – a condition ...

Odisha set to implement Climate Change Action Plan

With Climate Change becoming a phenomenon affecting almost every part of the world, local governments are taking it into their hands to turn things around. Odisha, a state ...

Pages from the Diary of a Community Health Worker

It was just another day in the late summer of 1992. Fresh from the success of a community intervention that sought to limit the effects of an outbreak of a gastrointestinal...

Financing for sustainable development: Can the international financial system make the leap?

The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals may still be pondering the number and nature of the new goals. However, the question of which issues are “goal...

HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE

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This documentary follows two bloggers on their journalistic road trips across China. They denounce social abuses using mobile phones, c...

INSHALLAH, KASHMIR: LIVING TERROR

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Winner of the National Award 2012 for Best Investigating Film, this documentary is an unflinching account of the conflict recounted as ...

CAMP 14: TOTAL CONTROL ZONE

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Born inside a North Korean prison camp as the child of political prisoners, Shin Dong-hyuk was raised in a world where all he knew was pun...