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- Vatavaran film festival in New Delhi/ Photo credit: Huned Contractor
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- Filmmaker Gurmeet Sapal/ Photo credit: Huned Contractor/ OWSA
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- 'Conservation is a complex issue'
- At the Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife Film Festival held in India’s national capital from October 27 to 31, one of the interesting subjects taken up for ...
- Indian cabinet clears Bundelkhand package
- Bundelkhand region in India has been reeling under drought for quite some time now. The central government’s special drought mitigation package of more than Rs ...
- Tribals in India adopt terrific toilet training
- Tribals in central India have adopted hygienic practices. For the first time ever, villagers own a house with its very own toilet, which is no mean achievement ...
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- Fossil fuel emissions are rising with GDP, particularly in developing countries/ Photo credit: Getty Images
- Earth 'heading for six degree C' of warming
- New findings are pointing towards the fact that average global temperatures are on course to rise up to dangerous six degree Celsius. It is therefore mandatory ...
- UN food summit ends without specific targets
- The three-day UN summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome earlier this week. The host country has lamented that the high profile summit failed to ...
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- Krishnendu Bose in action/ Photo credit: Huned Contractor/ OWSA
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- People are adapting to climate chnage in villages of India/ Photo credit: Oxfam
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- Shivani Vazir Pasrich inaugurating the exhibition/ Photo credit: Oxfam
- Indian villagers winning fight against climate
- As the world anxiously watches the devastating effects of climate change, noted actor Shivani Vazir Pasrich inaugurated an exhibition in India’s national ...
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- An illegal migrant who set off for New Zealand from northwestern Sri Lanka, only to run into Australian immigration officials. Despite a harrowing journey, he ...
- Sri Lanka: Migration dream remains, despite dangers
- Both Sinhala and Tamil Sri Lankans want to leave the country for reasons of security and to seek better economic opportunities abroad. While some go through ...
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- Mark Tully/ Photo credit: BBC
- Rural poverty and India's Maoist revolt
- The Indian government has ordered hundreds of paramilitary troops into eastern parts of the country where Maoist rebels have increasingly been taking control, ...
- India: Removing stigma and inculcating toilet culture
- World Toilet Organisation head, on his India visit to celebrate the World Toilet Day, says there is need to raise global awareness on sustainable sanitation. ...
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- US president Barack Obama at the Great Wall of China/ Photo credit: Huffington Post
- 'We must rally the world for climate deal': Obama
- US and Chinese presidents have expressed their desire to tackle climate change. President Obama wants next month's talks in Copenhagen to produce something ...
- Afghanistan to be polio-free in two years: WHO
- WHO is targeting to eradicate polio from Afghanistan within next two years. Much of it will depend on how smoothly the agency is able to carry out its ...
- Local communities in Nepal to manage forests
- Nepal's rural poor will get to manage hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest land with financial assistance from the UK’s Department for International ...
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- Ines Alberdi, executive director, UNIFEM/ Photo credit: IPS
- 'Women's rights are human rights'
- Women's political participation is a fundamental prerequisite for gender equality and genuine democracy, says Ines Alberdi, executive director, UNIFEM ...
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- Cow dung is a key part of the Gujarat project/ Photo credit: BBC
- Indian green lessons for the West
- Developed nations are putting pressure on India to agree to cut its carbon emissions at the next month's climate change negotiations in Copenhagen. In the ...
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- Lalitabai plucks long beans in her pata for the evening meal/ Aparna Pallavi/ DTE
- Revival of old practice comes handy in times of drought
- By reviving an old farm practice of pata, women in this western Indian district are ensuring food security in times of drought by growing vegetables, ...
- Afghanistan, India, Myanmar among world's most corrupt
- Afghanistan, Iraq, India, Somalia, Myanmar are among the most corrupt nations of the world, says Transparency International’s new annual index. The report says ...
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- Carbon emissions have come down due to economic slowdown/ Photo credit: Reuters
