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TV

A Complete Network, Almost

Has the time come for Indian Television to move into genre specific channels? On a visit to Canada, I discovered that there were pay channels dedicated to Westerns and war ...

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Bollywood

Bollywood Stars Support Children’s Education In London

Bollywood actress and UNICEF India Goodwill Ambassador, Sharmila Tagore, and actress and UNICEF Celebrity Advocate, Kareena Kapoor Khan, joined former BBC war correspondent...

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Environment

The Kardashian Factor' and climate change

Climate change continues to drive energy policy, despite the fact that there is no way to reconcile eradicating energy poverty in much of the world with reducing carbon dio...

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Sustainable Development

These Are Some Of The Most Interesting Green Projects Coming Out Of India

We were completely blown away when we read about the two 15-year-old boys from Nainital who invented a device that enables a shoe to charge a mobile phone. It?s mind-boggli...

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Sustainable Development

To improve sex ratio, Khap ends 500-yr-old ritual in 5 Jat villages

In Dhariwal gotra-dominated Jaurasi-Fatehpur villages of Mewat, the Jat Khap Panchayat has abandoned a 500-year-old practice of ‘pagribandi’ (brotherhood) with ...

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Health

Now, a treatment for mouth cancer that kills only cancerous cells!

Cancer of the mouth and throat are the most common cancers in Indian males, because of the high incidence of smoking, chewing tobacco and the widespread use of pan masala. ...

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Sustainable Development

India's 'untouchable' scavengers

Rights group Human Rights Watch has called on the Indian government to end “manual scavenging” – the practice of cleaning human waste by low-caste communi...

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Hollywood

Amy Brenneman Raises Awareness Of Crohn's And Colitis

Acclaimed Actress Amy Brenneman may play a silenced police chief’s wife in her new role on “The Leftovers,” but she generously lends her voice to help rai...

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Bollywood

Getting chilly for charity: Warm-hearted Bollywood stars take on the Ice Bucket Challenge

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has reached India, and taking the lead in the country are Bollywood celebrities who have come forward to do their bit and participate. Starting...

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Health

Polio eradication by vaccination: good news and bad

A clinical trial gives hope that the right vaccination scheme could eradicate polio worldwide by 2018. Another study, though, warns that mutated viruses could jeopardize th...

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