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- The Panay monitor lizard/ Photo credit: Associated Press
- Justice in waiting
- Journalist Rahul Bedi does a stark recall of India’s 1984 anti-Sikh riots where Hindu mobs massacred 3,000 Sikhs following the assassination of former ...
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- The Golden Temple/ Photo credit: Google images
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- Riots victims wait for justice/ Photo credit: Soutik Biswas/ BBC
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- Minar Pimple, Deputy Director, UNMC (L) and partner NGOs with signature cheque carrying the representation of 173 million citizens in the Stand Up campaign.
- Mammoth global anti-poverty campaign breaks world record
- In the largest anti-poverty mobilisation, more than 173 million citizens gathered at the Stand Up events around the globe last weekend, setting a new Guinness ...
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- The Matsigenka tribe has already been struck by swine flu/ Photo credit: J Mazower/ Survival
- Tribals at greatest risk from swine flu
- A new report says tribals in Australia and Canada are vulnerable to swine flu due to poor health and poverty. The report follows as body bags were sent to ...
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- The rare bearded vulture/ Photo credit: BBC
- Bearded vultures spotted in India
- A large colony of 200 Lammergeiers was seen earlier this week in remote Himachal Pradesh, close to the China border. The sighting is a major discovery in India ...
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- Cate Owren/ Photo credit: IPS
- 'COP must take gender to the microphone'
- Gender advocate Cate Owren wants to make gender issues integral to climate change policies. At the latest round of climate talks at Bangkok, she talks ...
- Water lessons
- The 'blue gold' remains the privilege of few and a scare resource for a billion and more, says Elena Trentini on the completion of an internation course ...
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- Fair trade/ Photo credit: UN News
- UN cautions G20 against protectionist trade
- A new UNCTAD report released ahead of the G20 meet at Pittsburg, US, later this month, calls upon the leaders to take corrective actions to open trade markets. ...
- Gaza rappers plea for unity
- It is Arabic hip-hop with a dash of tradition and patriotism. A new generation of Palestinian artistes is hoping to reach out to the youth by rapping on issues ...
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- Ayman Mughames, a Palestinian hip-hop artist, visits his family’s old home/ Photo credit: The National
- Global decline in under-five mortality rate: UNICEF
- New data reveals a continued drop in the rate of deaths of children below age five, attributed to greater access to malaria bednets and vaccinations. Yet three ...
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- Boys sit against the wall of a UNICEF-supported health centre in Niger’s Agadez region/ Photo credit: UNICEF/Pirozzi
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- Super tree/ Photo credit: SciDev.net/World Agroforestry Centre
- Africa's amazing acacia tree
- This super tree has nitrogen rich leaves that shed during the early rainy season to fertilize the soil and crops. It also acts as a hardy windbreak and cuts ...
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- Salil Shetty/ Photo credit: Google images
- 'Localise MDGs to benefit the poor'
- The global campaign director for MDGs Salil Shetty believes India's ambitious unique identification project can help track delivery of basic ...
- Food prices make festival mood sombre in India
- Rising food and sugar prices have made the joyous holy month of Ramzan less sweet for the devout. Erratic rains have pushed India to the brink of drought, ...
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- Breaking fast on the first day of the holy month of Ramzan/ Photo credit: Reuters/ Mukesh Gupta
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