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SAFAR MEIN SHAHAR: CITY AS CHARACTER
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FACTOR
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A LAST CALL FOR THE PLANET
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FORGOTTEN DANCING QUEEN OF HINDI CINEMA
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MOTHER MYTH MAN CALLED SHAKESPEARE
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HALF CAULIFLOWER, PIECE OF CAKE
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DEBATING NATIONALIZATION OF MEDICAL COLLEGES
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DELHI’S GRAND CINEMATIC AMBITION
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THE ETERNAL CRISES OF FILM SCHOOLS
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INDIAN FARMERS BLINDSIDED BY CINEMA
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India ranks among top 3 medical tourism destinations in Asia
“Within Asia, India, Thailand and Singapore are the three countries that receive maximum medical tourists owing to low cost of treatment, quality healthcare infrastructu...
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What Makes Community Health Care Work?
In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalanche...
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Helping Children, Despite Death Threats: A Vaccinator Explains
When my translator and I arrive in a crowded, dusty neighborhood in Karachi, Fatima Noor is waiting in a full black burqa. But she pretends not to see us. She turns down the a...
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Male Rickshaw Drivers Playing Key Role In Maternal Health Campaign In India
ODISHA, India (WOMENSENEWS)–As the auto rickshaws begin lining up inside the compound at 7 a.m., Vijaylakmi Sahu knows she has just 30 minutes to finish her work. Over t...
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Breastfeeding linked with mental health
Mothers who successfully breastfeed baby less likely to get postnatal depression new mothers who successfully breastfeed their babies are less likely to get postnatal depressi...
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Hormone ‘protects brains of Premature babies’
The hormone erythropoietin (EPO) could prevent brain injuries in very premature babies, a study suggests. Brain scans show EPO – used illegally by athletes to boost perf...
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Some hard truths on safe motherhood
Maternal deaths should be treated as a human rights issue and governments need to focus on best antenatal practices and provision of emergency obstetric care to bring down the...
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Dash of Salt Does No Harm, Extremes Are the Enemy
For years, we have known that diets high in salt can be bad for people with high blood pressure. A study published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed th...
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Now, a treatment for mouth cancer that kills only cancerous cells!
Cancer of the mouth and throat are the most common cancers in Indian males, because of the high incidence of smoking, chewing tobacco and the widespread use of pan masala. In ...
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Polio eradication by vaccination: good news and bad
A clinical trial gives hope that the right vaccination scheme could eradicate polio worldwide by 2018. Another study, though, warns that mutated viruses could jeopardize that ...
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