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Urban Health: Major Opportunities For Improving Global Health Outcomes, Despite Persistent Health Inequities

New data on the health of city-dwellers in almost 100 countries show that as the world’s urban population continues to grow, health inequities - especially between the r...

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On The Margins In A City Of Dreams

A week after a fire broke out in the Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai, fires in smaller pockets continue to blaze. But toxic smoke is only an addition to a long list of problem...

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Big Boost For Increasing Employment In India

As of 2011, there are 116 million unemployed people in the country, out of which 10 million have atleast a graduation degree and 7.2 million have a technical degree. But the i...

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Is This A Glimmer Of Hope For Our At-Risk Oceans?

The world’s fisheries could see a swift recovery from overfishing and declining stocks if sensible reforms are implemented, according to a new study.Research suggests th...

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India's First Transband: Don't Hide Us Away, Don't Keep Us In A Cage

KomalJagtap used to work as a wedding singer in India. For about 5,000 rupees (£52), she would dance and sing when people got married or wanted to celebrate a birth. But...

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Rotavirus Vaccine Launched Under Immunisation Drive

The health ministry on Saturday launched the rotavirus vaccine as part of its universal immunisationprogramme to prevent diarrhoeal deaths due to the virus which claims lives ...

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Tackling Inequality As Injustice: Four Challenges For The Human Rights Agenda

Over the last three months, openGlobalRights has brought together leading practitioners from various fields to debate economic inequality from a human rights perspective. In f...

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The Recycling Reflex

What if there were something that could create 1.5 million new jobs, reduce carbon emissions equal to taking 50 million cars off the road, cut dependence on foreign oil, incre...

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Ecuador Creates Galapagos Marine Sanctuary To Protect Sharks

Ecuador has created a new marine sanctuary in the Galápagos Islands that will offer protection to the world’s greatest concentration of sharks.Some 15,000 square ...

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Right For Men, Left For Women: Gendered Buttons Still A Thing.

Buttons have existed as a way of fastening clothes since thousands of years BC, but over the last few millennia no one’s been able to explain the provenance of a rather ...

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BOLLYWOOD FAME, FORGOTTEN STARS, CAUTIONARY TALES

Today Mumbai’s film actors have wised up to the fact that fame and fortune don&rsq...

February 3 2026

MARDAANI 3 RETURNS WITH GRIT AND LIMITS

In his review, critic Arnab Banerjee examines how Mardaani 3 revives Shivani Shivaji Roy...

February 2 2026

BOB DYLAN’S IMMIGRANT LAMENT STILL HAUNTS US

In this searing cultural meditation, Khalid Mohamed revisits Bob Dylan’s protest s...

February 1 2026