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Gender

Opinion: Want to Empower Women Worldwide? Give Them Access to Contraceptives

Melinda Gates shares why she advocates for over 225 million women around the globe who still lack access to modern contraceptives. Like most women I know, I have used contr...

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Bollywood

Neeti Mohan Joins UN's War Against Trafficking

Joining the likes of Hollywood celebrities Ashton Kutcher, Nicholas Cage, Demi Moore and Ashley Judd, playback singer Neeti Mohan has collaborated with the United Nations f...

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Health

A Pinworm Medication Is Being Tested As A Potential Anti-Cancer Drug

Cancer researchers are testing whether a generic drug that has been used for more than 40 years to treat parasitic infections may also help fight cancer. The tests of meben...

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Sustainable Development

This Futuristic Cap Lets People With Paralysis Communicate

It’s a patient’s worst nightmare: They’re paralyzed from an accident or disease, and slowly, even the ability to signal by blinking is taken from them. It...

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Health

Contraceptive Cruelty: How patriarchy Determines Birth Control Use In India

A month or so before her wedding, 23-year-old Rituparna’s mother suggested that they go to a gynaecologist for a ‘normal check-up’. Once there however, he...

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Environment

A Crack In The Antarctic Ice Shelf Just Grew By 11 Miles

This story has been updated. An enormous rift in one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves grew dramatically over the past month, and a chunk nearly the size of Delawar...

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Human Rights

Katherine Johnson: Advanced Human Rights With A Slide And Pencil

When I was growing up, in segregated South Carolina, African-American role models in national life were few and far between. Later, when my fellow flight students and I, in...

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Sustainable Development

How NASA’s Longest Space Dweller Sees Earth

Now, over 70 years later, spaceflight and imaging technologies have rocketed to new heights, and the human conception of Earth as one interlinked planetary entity has also ...

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Alternative Entertainment

When Music Festivals Clash

When you have only 365 days in a year and probably three times the number of films on offer, you’re bound to clash with another film sooner rather than later. That&rs...

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Kaleidoscope

All It Takes Is Courage

Sushmita Mukherjee’s new one-woman show, Naribai, has her play a face-off between two been interesting women of different social strata. Sunaina is an upper clas...

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