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Janani Suraksha Yojana Pays Dividends : Study

A new study brings in first conclusive evidence of the role played by JananiSurakshaYojana (JSY) in reducing ‘socioeconomic disparities’ existing in maternal ca...

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Health

WHO Develops Electronic Solution To Child, Maternal Deaths

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed an electronic solution using hospital-based study on 10,000 pregnant women in Nigeria and Uganda to reduce the high labour...

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Broadcasters Plan More Free Channels To Tap Rural Viewers

Indian television broadcasters are starting to focus on the rural viewer, a segment that has been neglected for a long time, as the scope of revenues were limited due to th...

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Hollywood

Abbas Kiarostami Died: Martin Scorsese Pays Tribute

'He was one of those rare artists with a special knowledge of the world' Revered Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami died today in Paris at the age of 76. A cinephile's favouri...

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Free TV Channels Proliferating: Here's Why?

With BARC’s rural data, the business sentiment for FTA (free-to-air) channels is improving. So much so that some broadcasters are now turning their pay channels into ...

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Gender

How Women Consume TV On Weekdays

Women drive television viewership in India. Understanding their TV consumption patterns has become very important for broadcast executives, content creators, advertisers an...

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Health

Trichy Switches To IPV In Polio Fight

On the first day of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) immunization drive in Trichy district, 436 children below the age of 1 in urban and rural areas were administered the in...

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Human Rights

How Rural Women Are Challenging Gender-Based Exclusion From Land Ownership In India

A rural women’s movement in north India has played a significant role in dismantling the existing power structures and overcoming gender-based exclusion from ownershi...

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Alternative Entertainment

Local Electro Chill-Pop Artist Diaspoura Creates Her Own Narrative With Demonstrations

Anjali Naik's rural South Carolina upbringing was different from that of anyone else she knew. "My dad's from Africa and my mom's from India, so I'm first-generation Americ...

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Gender

The 'Avon Ladies' Of Pakistan Selling Contraception Door To Door

A scheme training local women to deliver birth control pills to homes hopes to reduce maternal mortality and poverty
rom 8am to 4pm, 25-year-old Samina Khaskheli trav...

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