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DURGA PUJA: FAITH MEETS COMMERCIALISM
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A WOMAN UNDER PUBLIC SCRUTINY
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SATISH GUJRAL: ART BEYOND PARTITION’S TRAUMA
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ANURAG CHAUHAN: YOUNG BODY, OLD SOUL
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BEYOND THE VOICE, SHIBANI KASHYAP
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Health
Group Pioneers Cheap Tricycles To Transport Women In Labour
Despite huge efforts to bring down maternal and infant mortality and the strides already achieved, one new-born child dies every 15 minutes with 30,000 new-born deaths recorde...
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WHO South–East Asia Region Eliminates Maternal And Neonatal Tetanus
In a major public health feat, WHO South-East Asia Region has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus with all districts across the 11 countries having reduced the cases to l...
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WHO Says Life Expectancy Has Increased By Five Years Since 2000, But Health Inequalities Persist.
Dramatic gains in life expectancy have been made globally since 2000, but major inequalities persist within and among countries, according to this year's 'World Health Statist...
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Making A Fundamental Shift In Drug Policy And Harm Reduction
In 1998, the United Nations General Assembly convened a special session under the slogan, “A drug-free world — we can do it!” with the goal of prohibiting th...
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Taking Care Of Business.
One day in September, in a small town north of Kampala in Uganda, a young woman, pregnant with twins and still weeks away from full term, arrived at the Maria Maternity Ward, ...
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Factbox: Women's Health - From Maternal Mortality To Child Marriage
COPENHAGEN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Over 5,000 delegates from 150 countries arrive in Copenhagen this week for Women Deliver - a major global conference on the health, r...
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What's Killing The World's Teenagers? Road Accidents, Suicide, Floods
The leading cause of death among teenagers in the U.S. is road accidents — killing nearly 5,000 American kids between the ages of 10 and 19 in 2013. Suicide also emerge...
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India Misses Millennium Development Goal 5
Under the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5, the target for India was to reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) by three quarters between 1990 and 2015. Based on the UN Inter...
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Leave No One Behind: Women, Children And Adolescent Health In Emergencies
If you ask anyone to describe home in one word they frequently will respond with either “comfortable” or “safe.” No matter where you live in the world,...
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8 Apps Revolutionising Maternal Health Care In Developing Nations
In a global community that often treats health care as a luxury rather than a necessity, the world’s mothers are arguably some of those most impacted by inequality in ac...
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