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How can India end this tide of violence against women?

Despite rising levels of education, gender awareness and stringent pro-women laws, change has been slow and violence against women is increasing The rape of a young woman by a...

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A New Direction for Global Health

It is easy to be discouraged about the state of international cooperation today, but global health remains an area in which the world has come together to do significant good....

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Direct Action unlikely to meet emissions target, says Climate Change Authority

Advisory body also finds renewable energy target should remain at existing level but deadline could be pushed back to allow for investment uncertainty The government?s climate...

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The Year of Sustainable Development

The year 2015 will be our generation’s greatest opportunity to move the world toward sustainable development. Three high-level negotiations between July and December can...

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The Year of Sustainable Development

The year 2015 will be our generation?s greatest opportunity to move the world toward sustainable development. Three high-level negotiations between July and December can resha...

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More than 70 per cent of HIV-AIDS patients not diagnosed

More than 70 percent of people suffering from HIV-AIDS are not diagnosed and are not aware that they are suffering from the dreaded disease. I S Gilada, president of AIDS soci...

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We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal

Between power outages, deluging rains, flash floods, mudslides and record droughts, California is quickly becoming unrecognizable ? all the bellwethers of an ecosystem out of ...

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Sustainable development goals: eight ways to make reality match ambition

Next year, governments will agree a new global development framework of breathtaking ambition. We already know the likely shape of the sustainable development goals (SDGS) , w...

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Premature babies: How 24 week-old babies are now able to survive

The number of babies being born prematurely is on the increase, and so is their chance of surviving. Jessica Salter discovers how advances in neonatal care ??and sandwich bags...

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Lima: Climate Change Optimism Returns to Earth

The Lima Climate Change Conference (COP20), held under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), concluded in the early hours of Sund...

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TWO POWERFUL THEATRE REFLECTIONS

Sohaila Kapur reflects on two compelling theatre experiences — the experimental st...

May 13 2026

THE STING BEHIND BOLLYWOOD PAPARAZZI

Khalid Mohamed, without being judgmental, reports on the love-hate relationship of the c...

May 12 2026

MAHOGATHA REVIVES MAHASHWETA DEVI’S LEGACY

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews Mahogatha, a powerful Marathi theatrical adaptation of thr...

May 11 2026