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Rajasthan Govt’s Gift To Newlyweds: Contraceptives And Vanity Kits

Newlyweds in 14 Rajasthan districts will soon get unusual gifts from the government: a pack of condoms, strips of oral contraceptive pills and a vanity kit as part of a pro...

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Human Rights

Here’s How Hospitals Are Trying To Improve Accessibility For Visually Impaired Patients

India is taking great strides to provide accessibility to the disabled in the country. However, the medical centre unfortunately seems to have a lot of ground to cover. Ano...

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Environment

Indian Firm Makes Carbon Capture Breakthrough

A breakthrough in the race to make useful products out of planet-heating CO2 emissions has been made in southern India. A plant at the industrial port of Tuticorin is captu...

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Health

Healthcare A Mix Of Highs & Lows

The Raghubar Das government focused on development of healthcare infrastructure in 2016 but services did not improve on the ground level. Shortage of doctors remained a big...

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Environment

UK Hits Clean Energy Milestone: 50% Of Electricity From Low Carbon Sources

Half of the UK’s electricity came from wind turbines, solar panels, wood burning and nuclear reactors between July and September, in a milestone first. Official figur...

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Environment

Major Flooding In UK Now Likely Every Year, Warns Lead Climate Adviser

Major flooding in the UK is now likely to happen every year but ministers still have no coherent long-term plan to deal with it, the government’s leading adviser on t...

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Health

Reforming Healthcare In India

India faces a triple-disease burden of maternal and child health, infectious, and non-communicable diseases. This is despite India’s status as the third-largest econo...

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Health

The Sterilisation Skew

Sterilisation is simpler in men than women — recovery time and surgical risk are smaller, complications are rare and deaths rarer. Yet, as the national ‘Vasecto...

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Can Television Be Fair To Muslims?

FOR the Nuxalbari Estate in the lush hills of India’s north-east, relief came in the nick of time. With winter pruning of its tea plantations at hand, 600 workers wer...

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Health

Foot Soldiers Of India’s National Health Program, Here’s How Much An Asha Worker Makes

Foot soldiers of the National Rural Health Mission, these women health activists risk their well-being to keep villagers healthy. It’s perhaps time the Accredited Soc...

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