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Women, Cities, And Opportunity: Making The Case For Secure Land Rights

Land and property lie at the center of many of today’s pressing development challenges. Consider that at most 10% of land in rural Africa is reliably registered. At t...

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Sustainable Development

Quadriplegic Man Regains Use Of Arms With Brain-Computer Interface

A man paralyzed from the shoulders down regained some use of his arms and hands via a brain-computer interface, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University....

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Environment

South Australia To Get $1bn Solar Farm And World's Biggest Battery

A huge $1bn solar farm and battery project will be built and ready to operate in South Australia’s Riverland region by the end of the year. Battery storage developer ...

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Hollywood

Kevin Costner, Water Planet Team Up To Advance Sustainable Water Reuse

In 2009, famed actor and environmentalist Kevin Costner and Eric Hoek, then a professor of engineering at UCLA, joined forces to develop a system aimed at cleaning up oil &...

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Gender

How Did a DD Show On Sex Education Become India’s Most Watched Television Programme?

The show uses the form of a highly charged soap, complete with dramatic music and cliff-hangers, to impart lessons on spacing between pregnancies, contraceptives, puberty, ...

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Human Rights

Newest Technologies Becoming Weapons In Fight For Land Rights

Cutting-edge technologies - from drones to data collected by taxi drivers - are becoming key weapons in the global battle to improve land rights and fight poverty, experts ...

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Human Rights

Plagued By Decades Of Child Trafficking, India Activists Call For Crackdown

MUMBAI // Activists are clamouring for the rapid introduction of a new law to crack down on child trafficking in India, a problem that has plagued the country for decades. ...

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Trending

FICCI Frames 2017: Indian M&E Industry Could Collaborate With Canadian Producers Via Co-Production, Co-Ventures And Service Providers

MUMBAI, 22 March 2017: Co-production, co-ventures and production service providers’ arrangement are the three ways for India to collaborate with Canada in the enterta...

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Human Rights

Child Rights Commission Demands Implementation Of Supreme Court Rules On School Buses

Concerned about the increasing number of deaths of children in school bus accidents, the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) at a meeting w...

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Kaleidoscope

Smoker’s Zone

Dhumrapaan, a play produced by Kumud Mishra and directed by Akarsh Khurana, recently won the Mahindra Excellence In Theatre Award for best original play for Adhir Bhat.
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