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Gender

Challenging Cultural Norms Is The First Step Towards Gender Parity In India

Hailing from India and currently attending a nine month program in the US, I am struck by the differences and similarities between the women in the two countries and what t...

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Environment

Why Clean Energy, Not Coal, Is The Solution To Poverty

It is the development conundrum of our era. Extremely poor people cannot lift themselves out of poverty without access to reliable energy. More than a billion people live w...

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Thought Factory

Mirrors: Capturing And Recording The Collective Consciousness Through Media

In the recent wake of the Yakub Memon case, opinions have been polarized creating a rift, a schism of thought and identity has manifested in the nation’s collective c...

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Health

Immunisation Coverage Crosses 70 Per Cent Mark

Improvement represents significant gain in child survival
The child immunisation coverage in the country has reportedly gone up from 65 per cent to 70 per cent this ye...

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Gender

Oscars Shouldn’t Compromise To Up Diversity, Say Female Academy Members

Producers Marcia Nasatir and Bonnie Arnold suggest rapid pace of change at voting body could undermine requirement for high standard of professional achievement Two high-pr...

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Health

AIDS Epidemic Can End By 2030: UNAIDS

India has achieved a reduction of more than 20 per cent in new HIV infections between 2000 and 2014, according to a report released by UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Prog...

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Hollywood

Pearl Jam, Beyonce, Ed Sheeran And Coldplay To Headline 2015 Global Citizen Festival.

Pearl Jam, Beyonce, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay will headline the 2015 Global Citizen Festival, a free-ticketed event on the Great Lawn in Central Park in New York City on Satu...

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Krishnapatnam Port Conferred The “Golden Peacock Environment Management” Award

New Delhi, 13th July 2015: Krishnapatnam Port, recognized as one of India’s largest ports and ranked amongst wo...

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Sustainable Development

Invest 3.5 Percent GDP In Science, Technology, Innovation For Sustainable Development, Experts Say

Investing up to 3.5% of a nation’s GDP in science, technology and innovation – including basic science and education – is a key benchmark for advancing su...

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Health

MDG Report: India On Track In Reducing Poverty

‘But it still remains home to one quarter of global underfed population’ India has halved its incidence of extreme poverty, from 49.4 per cent in 1994 to 24.7 p...

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