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Sustainable Development

Indian Railways To Chart A New Route To Reduce GHG Emissions

Focus on low-carbon inter-urban passenger and freight transport, and tools like NAMAs for technology transfer and financing Indian Railways is in process of evolving a road...

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Hollywood

Online Sale of Props From Disney’s Maleficent to Benefit Boys & Girls Clubs of America

One Kings Lane, a leading online destination for the home, will sell 150 props from the set of Disney’s live-action epic Maleficent and all the proceeds from the sale...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Evening To Raise Funds For Charity

A BOLLYWOOD evening will be held in Downton this weekend to raise funds for three charities. The event has been organized by local firm Pure Punjabi and will include a thre...

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Health

Treating tobacco-related diseases cost India Rs 16,800 crore in 2011

Spending on treating such diseases is just a little less than revenue from tobacco products; Union health minister, Harsh Vardhan, says he would press for increase in tax o...

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Health

Are you travelling polio free? Show your certificate!

The federal government began enforcing the International Health Regulations (IHR) recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for all outbound travellers from Pakist...

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Environment

Can India Reform Its Agriculture?

Climate change is stressing an already struggling farm sector, but there is a way forward. Over the last decade, India?s official position in global climate negotiations ha...

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Sustainable Development

Will economic empathy shared by Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe enable Japan to play key role in India's growth?

Suzuki Motor Corporation’s investment in the 1980s was a transformational development in India’s economic history. It revolutionized the automobile sector, brin...

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Hollywood

Roger Moore Asks The Queen To Help Stop Wild Animal Circuses

Actors Sir Roger Moore KBE, best known as James Bond, and Imelda Staunton OBE, who stars in new Disney film Maleficent, have joined Animal Defenders International’s (...

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Hollywood

A Benefit Concert For Our Girls Of Nigeria Hosted By Tyrese Gibson And Friends

More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in northern Nigeria last month by Boko Haram, an act that drew international condemnation. With the well being of the girls in mind...

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Hollywood

Marcia Cross Stands Up Against Prostate Cancer

The Safeway Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), have collaborated again to re-launch their public service ca...

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