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Community radio reporters acting as climate change communication agents in Central India
Climate change is real. For an emerging economy like India with a large population directly dependent on natural resources for their sustenance, the changing climate is causing severe economic, environmental and social challenges. Bundelkhand, a semi - arid region comprising of 13 districts in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh is one of the most climate sensitive areas in ...
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Jackie Chan admires Bollywood welcomes Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration
Hollywood's action film star Jackie Chan has expressed his love for Bollywood music and dance sequences, and added that he is waiting for the right script and film director before venturing into an Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration. Chan, who is of Chinese descent, is leading a delegation at a six-day Chinese film festival in New Delhi. Welcomed by a thundering applause, the multi-faceted action ...
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Lil Red puts a modern musical spin on a classic tale Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Li'l Red" is not exactly the Brothers Grimm's storybook version of "Little Red Riding Hood." In Richard Kinter's modern adaptation of the classic fairytale, which opens the summer season for Johnny Appleseed Children's Theatre at Apple Hill Playhouse, the wolf that frightened the little girl on her way to see her grandma is more "cool dude" than ...
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No CBI probe into Saradha scam at present stage HC
chit fund scam at the present stage. A division bench comprising Justice A K Banerjee and Justice M K Chaudhuri, passing its order on PILs seeking CBI probe into the scam, refused the prayer at this stage. The bench, however, kept the matter pending before it, while passing some directions to the state on the modus operandi of investigation, which is at present being done by the West Bengal ...
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Austrian cinema a province shaped by past masters of pessimism
Roland Emmerich , etc - are there to uphold the gleaming castle of entertainment, I like to think there's a shadowy league ranged against them, beyond the mountains of the Old World. No bodacious starlets for this cabal, no multimillion-dollar CGI sprees; no high-octane street racing, or talking mammoths, or cheap affirmative morality. Nope, for the Austrian League of Extraordinarily ...
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Blu-Ray]
Though a beloved classic in its own right that has more than stood the test of time, charming viewers for decades even after its initial release in the tumultuous late 1960s, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is nevertheless an exceedingly odd childrens film. At two and a ha ... ...
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Kuwaits acting oil minister says prices fair
Kuwait's acting oil minister said on Wednesday current oil prices were "fair" and that the Gulf Arab state was producing around 3 million barrels of crude per ...
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Lanes closed on Middlebrook Pike Broadway
n Through July 26, utility work along a section of Middlebrook Pike between Webster Avenue and Proctor Street will reduce traffic to one eastbound and one westbound lane. Additionally, Partners Place will be closed to through ...
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Theatre review Patti LuPone wreaks vengeance on Andrew Lloyd Webber
has plenty to say about Andrew Lloyd Webber in the show that she and New York pianist/interviewer Seth Rudetsky have brought to the Leicester Square Theatre this week.Some of what LuPone "says" goes unspoken. A flared nostril or narrowing of the eyes communicates all we need know about her ongoing feelings towards the man who famously fired his one-time Eva Pern from the Broadway run ...
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Penguin Design Award 2013 - in pictures
This year's Penguin Adult Prize for design invited students to come up with a new cover for Raymond Chandler's 1939 classic The Big Sleep. From smoking guns to smoking ashtrays, click your way through the ones that made the ...
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Musical spectacular to open first-ever Asia Pacific Special Olympics
Asia Pacific Games in December, with well-known Australian performers to take the stage in a two-hour spectacular of music, dance, theatre, lights and fireworks. Details of the gala event, planned for Dec 1, 2013 at the 30,000-seater Hunter Stadium in Newcastle were released on Wednesday. Aussie singers Anthony Callea, Marcia Hines and Marina Prior are among the line-up of entertainers, which ...
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
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I have spent time at the Sheraton in Abu Dhabi previously, in the restaurants and the tavern pub, but hadn't ...
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