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Gender

‘Women Empowerment Is A Core Driver Of Democratisation’

Differences between women and men are socially and culturally constructed. This was stated by MNA Dr Nafisa Shah during a two-day conference, titled ‘Youth Empowermen...

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Sustainable Development

Watch Researchers Use Sound To Move Multiple Objects With Precision

A team of researchers at Aalto University in Finland has devised a method for the controlled movement of multiple objects using a single sound source, a development which m...

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Bollywood

Preity Zinta Lends Support Towards Drought

The actress recently constructed a well in a village near Nasik city in Maharashtra that was inaugurated on Sunday. Preity Zinta, who was in the news for her private weddin...

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Environment

Chernobyl's New and Improved Sarcophagus Will Contain The Disaster's Radioactivity For A Century

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, engineers are giving the epicenter of the long-defunct facility a facelift. With financial assistance from more than 40 n...

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Sustainable Development

Mechanical Engineer Quits Job To Build Pond In A Village

After quitting his job as an engineer, Shashank Singh decided to take up a development project in rural Rajasthan. Today, he is living in a village, helping rejuvenate a po...

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Thought Factory

DEMOCRACY

I grew up in several places in India, amidst many changing political times as we know.
I lived with the two books, Discovery Of India by Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru,...

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Retroscope

Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala

Growing up in Calcutta gave us grounding in sound middle class values out of which I was constructed. We lived in a four room rented ground floor place, P92 SardarSankar Ro...

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Bollywood

Vivek Oberoi Makes A Trip To His Adopted Village In AP

Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi is not just an actor but also a man with a golden heart. He never back put when it comes to social service and support. He as an actor has done...

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Thought Factory

Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

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Sustainable Development

Physicists Open A Tabletop Magnetic 'Wormhole'

A team of Spanish researchers has successfully constructed a magnetic “wormhole,” according to an open-access paper published this week in Scientific Reports. W...

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