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UN Launches 500 Days Of Action To Build A Better World

With Malala Yousafzai by his side, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday marked 500 days of action until the deadline to reach the Millennium Development Goals, known ...

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Bollywood

India Today Woman Summit 2014: Manisha Koirala: Beating cancer and living to tell the tale

Manisha Koirala comes out brave and speaks about battling cancer and life after that. She arrives at the India Today Woman Summit 2014 wearing a beautiful crisp silk saree ...

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Environment

Climate change to cut South Asia's growth 9 percent by 2100 - ADB

Climate change will cut South Asia's growth almost 9 percent by the end of the century unless world governments try harder to counter global warming, the Asian Development ...

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Sustainable Development

IDBI Bank to construct toilets at 300 schools

Following the announcement of ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, IDBI Bank today announced plans to build toilets in schools in the rural ...

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Sustainable Development

Tobacco use by adults below 25 may soon become illegal

Government mulls changes in law to prevent surrogate ads by tobacco companies Adults aged below 25 years, who are in the habit of smoking or using other tobacco products, t...

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TV

Tough Acts To Follow

It’s that time of the year, when a few odd serials have drawn their curtains, and new shows are up for grabs. Last week television audiences witnessed the closure of ...

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Hollywood

Philanthropy Power Duo: How Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson Have Raised $150M With Hollywood Charity Game Changer

In 2009, producer Shauna Robertson was capping off a string of box-office hits that included The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Super bad when she decided, at the age o...

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Health

8 states report 71% of total infant deaths

Have you ever wondered why child death (IMR) and mother death (MMR) are going down so slowly in India? Part of the answer can be found in a recent survey report put out by ...

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Environment

India's rural sector deeply at risk from climate change

India, one of the largest agrarian economies in the world, is deeply at risk from climate change, and could see economic losses of up to 8.7% of its gross domestic product ...

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Sustainable Development

Four charts that suggest the problem isn't just the lack of girls' toilets

States that have a low number of government schools with girls’ toilets also tend not to have toilets for boys or household latrines, suggesting that this may be an o...

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