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PM?s climate change council recast
The Union government reconstituted the Prime Minister?s Council on Climate Change on Wednesday to coordinate the National Action Plan for Assessment, Adaptation and Mitigation...
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Greed of Drug Industry Cited by World Health as Reason for Lack of Ebola Vaccine
“A profit-driven industry does not invest in products for markets that cannot pay,” she said, according to The New York Times. “WHO has been trying to make t...
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Infants to get free treatment till age one in Rajasthan
Extending the scope of the Janani Shishu Suraksha Yojana (JSSY) with an aim to bring down the infant mortality rate (IMR) in the State, the Rajasthan government has decided to...
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Ban Ki-moon Calls for Sustainable Industrial Development, Jobs for Young People
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday outlined a four-point plan aimed at achieving sustainable industrial development, which includes generating mor e jobs for young pe...
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Climate change is a problem. But our attempts to fix it could be worse than useless
Panicked, ill-thought-through responses to the threat of climate change could hurt more people than they save The UN Climate Panel came out with its final report yesterday. I...
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With aim to end tuberculosis by 2020, Harsh Vardhan announces free treatment for all
“TB is a by-product of poverty,” Harsh Vardhan pointed out. “I strongly believe TB control should be taken up by everyone as a development issue. The respons...
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Centre joins hands with Gates for universal sanitation
With the objective of addressing sanitation related health concerns, the Urban Development Ministry and the Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation have agreed on a partnership to...
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Why scientists are (almost) certain that climate change is man-made
ON NOVEMBER 2ND the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which represents mainstream scientific opinion, said that it was extremely likely that climate change is ...
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‘Malnourishment declined sharply among children in India’
The proportion of underweight children in India might have declined from 45.1 per cent in 2005-6 to a historic low of 30.7 per cent last year, new provisional data from a surv...
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Gates Foundation boosts aid to stamp out malaria; targets Ebola
Philanthropist Bill Gates says he wants to end malaria in his lifetime and will give more money toward that goal, part of his broader fight against tropical diseases that are ...
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