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Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran's presidential elections

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has secured a win in the presidential elections in Iran, defeating hard-liner Saeed Jalili. IMAGE: Iranian presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian waves at......

Shrina Kurani Is Running For Congress

Indian-American engineer-entrepreneur Shrina Kurani challenges a 30-year Republican veteran in a US Congressional race in a district that is predominantly white. IMAGE: Can Shrina Kurani become......

Climate Change: India Must Walk The Talk

India lost around 38.5 thousand hectares of tropical forest in the last decade.Nearly 14 per cent of the country's tree cover!It is one thing for Modi to announce that India will reach a net-zero......

Modi Hai to Vishvas Hai!

Modi is seen as exceptional not only on account of his acts but also owing to his style.He appears to sacrifice his life for the people -- like a fakir, a figure he came to epitomise even more in......

Sushma makes strong pitch for India's permanent seat at UNSC

'India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration not......

No China-style climate deal in works for India: US

China is the top greenhouse gas emitter, ahead of the United States, the European Union and India The United States on Wednesday played down prospects for a wide-ranging deal with India to curb......

Prez makes strong pitch for India as investment destination

Making a strong pitch for bringing investments, President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday said India is fourth most attractive destination for Foreign Direct Investment for 2014-16 owing to easing of......

COLUMN: The goals and challenges of Rio+20

The bad news about the environment far outweighs small advances that have been made, writes Rajni Bakshi.Twenty years ago, it was mostly people who were displaced by dams, mines and other projects......

Full text of the BRICS declaration in Sanya

Leaders of BRICS -- China, Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa -- issued a joint declaration at the conclusion of the BRICS Summit in Sanya (China) on Thursday.The joint declaration lists the......

Green Scorecard: Private sector holds upper hand?

But the toughest opposition to a strategy for halting climate change also comes from entrenched private interests, says Rajni Bakshi. Those who have been despairing about the spectre of climate......

10 Films You Must Watch

Aseem Chhabra picks 10 movies that amazed him at the international film festival in El Gouna, Egypt. Last month as film people from around the world traveled to El Gouna, an Egyptian resort by the......

How a desi is making waves at MoMA

'We'll certainly have Hollywood productions, so why wouldn't we have Bollywood?'Indira Kannan reports. IMAGE: Members of the 69th Berlin film festival's international jury arrive for the awards......

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