New media platforms hold out big promise for newspapers to grow by G Ananthakrishnan

Using the mobile platform to expand audiences and connecting with readers using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and even…

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RTI award for India Today journalist

A journalist of India Today has been selected for the first PCRF-NDTV National RTI Award for his new reports based…

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Bye-bye Dubai? by Jayati Ghosh

There is much about Dubai that is artificial and based on illusion: the man-made islands designed to represent a map…

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NGOs: why toss and delay AIDS Bill? by Aarti Dhar

Several organisations working on issues surrounding HIV/AIDS on Monday made a vociferous demand for the immediate tabling of the HIV/AIDS…

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HIV+ children getting more attention: U.N. report

Children are now much higher on the global AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) agenda and there is a major shift…

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People’s movements decry anti-people SEZs by Siddhesh Inamdar

The former finance secretary and former Indian ambassador to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), S.P. Shukla, has…

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UN reports promising trend in HIV infection rates, record numbers living with virus

The trend in new HIV infections around the world has slowed markedly over the past eight years, according to a…

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Devastating cattle plague to be purged within 18 months, announces UN agency

A deadly and highly infectious animal disease which affects cattle and other hoofed livestock is set to be only the…

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Suck CO2 from air to save world from global warming, says Pachauri

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief Rajendra Pachauri has said that drastic cuts in carbon emissions may not be…

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Domino effect on commodity trade by Nidhi Nath Srinivas

Real estate may be the epicentre of Dubai’s debt crisis, but it is the Indian commodity trade that will feel…

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Satyam Computer Fraud Grows to $2.5 Billion by Nandini Lakshman

Eleven months after B. Ramalinga Raju, the former chairman of Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services, confessed to masterminding a $1.2 billion…

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IFAD chief says climate change threat is very real by Gargi Parsai

Without crop varieties adapting to extremes of weather, feeding world population will be difficult Shortage of water resources will be…

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‘No question of taking any binding emission cuts’

India on Sunday said there was no question of taking any binding carbon emission cuts, indicating the coordinated approach major…

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Momentum for climate deal strong and growing, Ban tells Commonwealth

The momentum for a deal at next month’s United Nations climate change summit is strong and growing, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon…

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A fair food deal for all by Arjun Sengupta

The Indian economy is picking up and should be able to expand at eight to nine per cent. It is…

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