changing of Halloween as a kids' holiday reflects the changing of our cultureONCE...
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Sivakasi Municipal Council in Virudhunagar district today passed a unanimous resolution seeking to change the spelling of the town as "Sivakaasi".Municipal sources said the council members as well as various residents associations of the town took the decision to change the spelling following a series of fire accidents at fireworks units in the recent past which.They said several astrologers and numerologists...
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three-day international meet on climate change and its impact on forests began here on Thursday.Experts from Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand have gathered to plan strategies for forestry to relieve the impact of climate change in Himalayan mountain states.Hundreds of delegates from different parts of India and renowned environmental scientists from abroad are attending the meet.Stefen...
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Grand structural solutions need to stop being the one-size-fits-all reaction in the public sector – let's change little, and oftenWe go wrong with change because we make it a big occasion, not an everyday event. Change is every day, by everybody, always. It's not a big party where you rock up once every couple of years, get totally wasted, and then try to live with the consequences. Yet that tends...
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Shimla, Nov 20 (ANI): A three-day international meet on climate change and its impact on forests began here on Thursday.Experts from Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand have gathered to plan strategies for forestry to relieve the impact of climate change in Himalayan mountain states.Hundreds of delegates from different parts of India and renowned environmental scientists from abroad...
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State TV says Iran will agree to the 'general framewok' of UN nuclear plan but wants changes, ML < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateState TV says Iran will agree to the 'general framewok' of UN nuclear plan but wants changes, MLState TV says Iran will agree to the 'general framewok' of UN nuclear plan but wants changes.| State TV says Iran will agree to the 'general framewok' of UN nuclear plan but wants...
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The latest report published by the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change says the ice cover on the Arctic Sea has decreased by about 39 per cent since 1979. Global warming, which is evident form of climate change, is melting the ice caps.THE ISSUE of climate change is one of the worst threats that puts serious question of the future of mankind. And as most world leaders continue to do lip service...
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two-day conclave of Himalayan states will be held here on October 29 and 30 to take stock of the changing landscape of the Himalayas.Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh and the Chief Ministers of Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Jummu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh would take part in the conclave. Additional Chief Secretary Sarojini Ganju Thakur told mediapersons...
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Almost 40 percent of breast cancer tumours change form as they spread, according to a UK study.This, according to Breakthrough Breast Cancer scientists in Edinburgh, could mean that patients require changes to their treatment regime as well.For the study, they analysed 211 tumours, which had spread to the lymph nodes in the armpit-the place where breast cancer tends to migrate first.Breast cancer often...
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Giving a new angle to the climate change the United Nations Population fund (UNFPA) today said family planning, reproductive health care and gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts.The influence of human activity on climate change is complex. It is about what people consume, the types of...
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