recent report of a new-born girl child found abandoned in a dustbin near the Radio Club in Colaba on October 26, and pronounced dead when admitted to hospital, evokes shock and despair.There are at least 14 organisations in Mumbai who could have found the child a home. And there are 35 government-established Child Welfare Committees in Maharashtra (roughly one per district), whose chief purpose is...
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Meanwhile, the Transgender Law Center wrote in a fact sheet posted on its Website, “Unfortunately, some insurance companies broadly interpret language excluding transgender-related care and services to deny coverage for non-transition-related procedures for transgender individuals.”It writes furthers, “Insurers justify these exclusions by stating that your current medical problem is somehow related...
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Ragpicking, one would assume, is the last area a corporate would want to foray into. But for ITC, which had in the past entered unorganised businesses such as manufacturing match sticks and incense sticks, it is a potential gold mine. Consider this: for 80 per cent of the 630 paper mills in India, waste paper is a key raw material. They import around 4.6 million tonne from Europe and the US every year...
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day after several stray dogs and birds were found dead in mysterious circumstances in Nizamuddin East, tests confirmed they were poisoned.According to officials of Friendicoes, the NGO asked to conduct post-mortem on the dead animals, the poison was most probably administered through food."The blood and urine samples of a dog have been tested. The cause of their death is poison," said Dr. Prabhakaran,...
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Erode, Oct 25 /--/ About 500 boys and girls from 10 colleges and schools here collected and removed about five ton of plastic waste from Thalawady and Kadambur hills in Sathyamangalam reserve forest areas. The drive was part of the administration's efforts to clean the area of plastic bags, sheets and water bottles. Inaugurating the drive on Saturday, inspector general of police, Special Task Force,...
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Presenter Richard Hammond is among the nominees for this year's British Academy Children's Awards for his show Blast Lab.The Top Gear star is up against Steve Backshall for Deadly 60, CBeebies host Andy Day and Mister Maker's Phil Gallagher in the presenter category.The awards will be presented by comedy pair Dick and Dom on 29 November at London's Park Lane Hilton.The duo are also nominated in the...
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analyses may wipe out one-third of dinosaur species, with a recent research leading to two dinosaurs being wiped out, as they were not separate species, but different growth stages of previously named dinosaurs.Paleontologists from the University of California (UC), Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies discounted the two species of dome-headed dinosaurs.Their demise comes after a three-horned dinosaur,...
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Berlin they have been marking 20 years without their wall, in Belfast the division of the city remains set in concrete, wire and fencing.On Monday, a group of youths gathered at the peaceline on Lanark Way, which separates the Protestant Shankill Road from the Catholic Falls Road.It is one of the 42 interface barriers in Belfast, the most recent of which was built in 2008.The young people were from...
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analyses may wipe out one-third of dinosaur species, with a recent research leading to two dinosaurs being wiped out, as they were not separate species, but different growth stages of previously named dinosaurs.Paleontologists from the University of California (UC), Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies discounted the two species of dome-headed dinosaurs.Their demise comes after a three-horned dinosaur,...
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Sachin Tendulkar on Monday planted himself firmly on the political pitch,effecting a strong anti-Shiv Sena polarisation, with Bal Thackeray's criticismof his "I am-a-Maharashtrian-but-Indian" comment triggering allroundcondemnation.Thackeray wrote in Sena mouthpiece `Saamna' thatTendulkar better keep himself out of the political field and that he has hurt`Marathi Manoos' with his comment.While Congress...
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