The world is becoming a better place. Here's why

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The world is becoming a better place. Here's why If you go by the media accounts of 2017, it was a bleak year of unpredictable demagogues, the unraveling of global cooperation, terror attacks, disasters, refugee crises, pandemics and deaths. In fact, it was a year of small, steady, unnoticed miracles. Meet the man who started triple talaq movement While BJP celebrates the passage of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage Bill, 2017) in the Lok Sabha and claims credit for it, not many may be aware of the struggle of Muslim reformist Hamid Dalwai, who first raised the demand to scrap triple talaq. Flight operations resume at IGI airport after season's 'worst fog' Operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) Delhi resumed after remaining suspended for a few hours in the wake of a dense fog canopying the whole national capital region on the morning of Day One of 2018 and the visibility dropping below 50 metres. Here is a new helpline for income tax e-filing The Income Tax Department on January 1 notified a new helpline number for taxpayers who e-file their returns and conduct other tax-related businesses online. The department issued an advisory and said: "Attention taxpayers: e-Filing help desk number has been changed. WhatsApp will not work on these phones from today Mobile messaging app WhatsApp will stop working on a number of operating systems from January 1, the Facebook-owned company had confirmed last month. Want to know Kim Jong-Un's New Year vow? Kim Jong-Un vowed North Korea would mass-produce nuclear warheads and missiles in a defiant New Year message Monday suggesting he would continue to accelerate a rogue weapons programme that has stoked international tensions.

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