Moushumi Chakrabarty
Digital Journalist based in Mississauga, ON,, Canada.
Joined on Feb 9, 2009
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Two people were injured early this morning when a helicopter used by the French language media network TVA tried to make an emergency landing near Montreal’s Bonaventure Expressway at the south end of the city.
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Canadians will get a chance to participate in reducing their carbon footprints in a unique campaign due to take off early January.
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Stevie Wonder became the 11th Messenger of Peace for the United Nations at a ceremony at the UN headquarters in New York today.
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Almost 4,000 participants from 182 countries are meeting in Bonn, Germany, today to kickstart discussions regarding a UN-backed climate change deal. The delegates are expected to negotiate on texts which would form the basis of the deal, reports said.
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Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk is on his way into space aboard the International Space Station in a Soyuz rocket today. Also traveling with Thirsk are Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne.
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After an election which cost the country $2 billion, according to the Centre for Media Studies, a new Cabinet has taken office in India. For the second time, 76-year old economist Manmohan Singh is at the helm as Prime Minister.
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You have a couple of million bucks to spare. Also, you’re a fan of ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and ‘Angels and Demons’. Consider investing in some prime real estate in the Dordogne region in France.
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Fundamentalists in Kuwait are urging women not to participate in Parliamentary elections either as candidates or voters because it ‘un-Islamic’. The polls begin this Saturday.
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Only 17 per cent of the world’s population lives in countries that have a free press. The report published recently by Freedom House, clearly shows how journalists and writers are still subject to violence and punitive laws.
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These days, it seems there is no dearth of gloomy stories in the media. Recession, violence in Pakistan, swine flu deaths – take your pick. But when youth, art and green get together, there is hope yet for this beleaguered planet.
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The University of Waterloo in Ontario has installed the latest state-of-the-art printing machine which will give students a chance to print a high quality paperback book with colour cover, at a fraction of the cost.
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Funds sent by the rich in America to tax havens abroad, intending to dodge the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have attracted the eye of President Obama. He has announced reforms to the nation’s international tax code, say reports.
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The necessity of keeping water public is one of the main thrusts in the Blue Communities project launched by the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
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More than $7 million tax dollars have been spent on bottled water by the federal government, according to a report released today.
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At least $112 billion a year is generated in the Canadian economy by the efforts of volunteers, according to the Hon. Joseph Volpe who commemorated the efforts of volunteers in the House of Commons during the National Volunteer Week ending tomorrow.
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The discovery of the lightest exoplanet – a planet beyond the solar system, orbiting a star other than the sun – has been announced by lead researcher Michel Mayor at the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.
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A $100 million growth fund to kickstart ailing microfinance lending for small and medium businesses in the region was announced by President Obama at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain.
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A 12-year-old Canadian activist, Bilaal Rajan is asking people to join him for National Volunteer Week (April 19-25) by walking barefoot.
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The ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ team has recently announced a commitment of £500,000 in a 5-year program to improve the lives of slum children in Central Mumbai, India.
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The controversial Afghani ‘rape law’ that had the world up in arms is due to be changed, President Hamid Karzai said in an interview with CNN on Thursday.
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