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Delay To Curbs On Toxic Shipping Emissions 'Would Cause 200,000 Extra Premature Deaths

A push by the shipping and oil industries for a five-year delay to curbs on toxic sulphur emissions would cause an extra 200,000 premature deaths from lung cancer and heart...

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Sustainable Development

Mercury Is More Earth-Like Than We Thought

Mercury has been hiding an exciting secret: the closest planet to our Sun is perpetually shrinking, according to new data from NASA, which shows the appearance of new, tiny...

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Alternative Entertainment

Serge Attukwei Clottey : The Artist Urging African Men To Dress As Women

Serge Attukwei Clottey walked through Ghana’s capital city in his dead mother’s clothes to honour her memory – and to highlight injustice against women. I...

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Human Rights

Now, Lodge Child Abuse Plaint Online

The National Commission for Protection ofChild Rights (NCPCR) has set up an online complaint management system for children to report complaints on child abuse.
The st...

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English Village Set An Example By Quietly Cleaning Up Its Own Patch

Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. But a small village of England, Ashton Hayes teaches the lesson to the rest of country by becoming Bri...

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The Inspiring Story of How Sikkim Became India’s Cleanest State

This record was reiterated in the recently conducted Swachhta (cleanliness) survey undertaken by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) on the condition of sanitation in ...

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Gender

Menaka Gandhi Asks Women Facing Online Abuse To Use #IAmTrolled

In a move welcomed by women, especially active users of social media like Facebook and Twitter, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi announced on Tuesday that...

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Health

Investing In A Child's Early Years For A Stronger Economy

Over the next two decades, India will have one of the youngest and largest working age populations in the world. On one hand, this is promising news. But for India to capit...

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Environment

California's Key Climate Change Program Aims For New Life

In advance of a political showdown in the state Legislature, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration made its first formal effort Tuesday to extend the life of the program ...

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Sustainable Development

Maharashtra Approves Rs 40.50 Crore Programme Of Distribution Of Soil Health Card

Summary: For the year 2016-17, the Centre and the state to spend over Rs 40.50 crore to distribute the soil health cards. "The Soil Health Card will empower the farmers wit...

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