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Polio Vaccination With Micro-Needle Patches Receives Funding For Patch Development, Clinical Trial

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of $2.5 million to advance the development of dissolvable microneedle patches for polio immunisation. The patche...

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UN Chief Urges Climate Action At Earth Day Concert

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has declared 2015 a year for global action on climate, gender and development issues, warning revellers attending the 2015 edit...

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Sustainable Development

You Are Ruining the Environment By Throwing Away Your Smartphones and Computers

Even if your phone freezes up every time you open Snapchat, it’s far from a piece of junk. The gold, silver, and plastics contained inside it are highly valuable, and...

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Sustainable Development

Time to tread sustainable development path

The idea of sustainable development is that raw capitalism is far too powerful for its own good. Global capitalism is a juggernaut, with the world economy now doubling in s...

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TV

WHEN MOVIES CAME HOME

It was in April 1995, that Indian television viewers experienced the thrill of their first 24 hour Hindi movie channel ? Zee Cinema. The channel indulged the viewers, who t...

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Health

Gates Foundation Head Challenges Students To Pursue Big Ambitions In Public Health

As the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads a multi-billion dollar effort to improve health and promote equity for...

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Environment

Get Ready For An Explosion Of Mining On The Ocean Floor

Last week, noted billionaire Richard Branson issued a call for more comprehensive protection of the Arctic, which in turn prompted some people to say rude things to him. Se...

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Geetu Mohandas(Liar’s Dice) And Raj Rishi More(Lunchbox), Among The Seven Selected Projects For Inaugural Drishyam / Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab In Goa, India April 12-16

Sriram Raghavan(Badlapur, Ek Haseena Thi), Shridhar Raghavan(Yennai Arindaal), and Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou, Talk To Me), Srdan Golubovic (Circles), Erik Jen...

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Thought Factory

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

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Environment

India To Measure Air Quality In World's Most Polluted Capital

The government today launched a new air quality index on, under intense pressure to act after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared New Delhi the world's most pollut...

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