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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala: The billionaire-investor who lived on his own terms and never gave up
The trader-investor who passed away on Sunday at the age of 62 remained optimistic about the India story through thick and thin. He'd often say: When one has a big idea, one needs to bet big
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The new 'Monuments Officers' prepare to protect art amid war
Army Monuments Officers work in a military capacity to identify and preserve cultural treasures around the world that are threatened by conflict, just like the Monuments Men of World War II who recovered millions of artifacts looted by the Nazis
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Kamoya Kimeu, fossil-hunting 'legend' in East Africa, is dead
Kamoya Kimeu, the son of a goat herder whose preternatural gift for spotting and identifying petrified tibias, skull fragments and other ancient human remains among the arid, rocky badlands of East Africa won him acclaim as the world's greatest fossil hunter, died on July 20 in Nairobi, Kenya
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Arctic warming is happening faster than described, analysis shows
One result of rapid Arctic warming is faster melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which adds to sea-level rise. But the impacts extend far beyond the Arctic, reaching down to influence weather such as extreme rainfall and heat waves in North America and elsewhere
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India at 75: Why minorities are sleepless and feeling insecure
Right-wing calls for the country to be declared a Hindu nation and Hindu supremacy to be enshrined in law are growing rapidly louder, making its 210-million-odd Muslims increasingly anxious about their future
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Johnson & Johnson will discontinue talc-based baby powder globally in 2023
More than 40,000 lawsuits, many from women with ovarian cancer or mesothelioma, have accused Johnson & Johnson of selling talc baby powder while being aware of its links to health risks, such as possible asbestos contamination
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South Korea pardons Samsung boss and billionaire Lee Jae-yong 'to help the economy'
Billionaire Lee Jae-yong, who was convicted of bribery and embezzlement in January last year, will be "reinstated" to give him a chance to "contribute to overcoming the economic crisis" of the country, Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon said
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In scorched UK, source of River Thames dries up
The driest start to a year in decades has shifted the source of this emblematic English river several miles downstream, leaving scorched earth and the occasional puddle where water once flowed
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The boy bosses of Silicon Valley are on their way out
In addition to Ben Silbermann of Pinterest, Joe Gebbia of Airbnb, and Apoorva Mehta of Instacart, founders at the top of Twitter, Peloton, Medium and MicroStrategy have all resigned this year. As the patience for visionaries wears thin, is it the dawn of the era of 'wartime CEOs'?
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World's biggest ice sheet could cause massive sea rise without action: study
Researchers at Durham University concluded that if global greenhouse emissions remain high, the melting East Antarctica Ice Sheet (EAIS) could cause nearly half a metre of sea-level rise by 2100
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In the Amazon, a UN agency has a green mission, but dirty partners
How United Nations Development Program, or UNDP, one of the world's largest sustainable development organisations partners with polluters, even those that at times work against the interests of the communities the agency is supposed to help