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India Will Miss MDG Target On Maternal Mortality: CBHI Report?

India will miss its Millenium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing maternal mortality rate to 109 per 1,00,000 live births, according to National Health Profile-2015, ...

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Environment

A Total Of $2.6 Trillion Is Now Being Divested From Fossil Fuels

?One year ago today we announced that the total was $52 billion, and committed to tripling that figure,? said Ellen Dorsey, the executive director of Wallace Global Fund, w...

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Sustainable Development

Indian Healthcare To Touch $280 Bn By 2020, To Create 7.4 Million Jobs.

India’s healthcare industry, which is estimated to grow by at least 16 per cent from $73.92 billion in 2011 to $280 billion in 2020, will see its workforce demand dou...

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Gender

Gender Affects Awarding Of Research Funding

Women are still underrepresented in top academic positions. One of the possible explanations for this is the increasing importance of obtaining research funding. Women are ...

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Festivals

Laguna Film Festival To Launch In October

The three-day festival will focus on short films. The first-ever Laguna Film Festival, a three-day festival dedicated to short films, will be held Oct 16-18, the ...

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Hollywood

Star-Studded Fundraiser Raises $1.2 Million In Support Of Artists For Peace And Justice

The annual Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) Fundraiser Festival Gala presented by BOVET 1822 recently raised an impressive $1.2 Million. Held at the majestic Casa Loma d...

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Bollywood

Akshay Kumar Donates 90 Lakhs To Drought-Hit Families.

The action hero of Bollywood, Akshay Kumar extended his helping hand to the drought-hit farmers of Maharashtra. He has contributed Rs 90 lakhs to the social cause...

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Mapmyindia Launches Safemate, A Personal Safety Device For Women & Children

GPS based devices and applications are being widely used for women safety in the recent past. Now a thing of the future is a device for the same. MapmyIndia has now launche...

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Environment

How Mobile Phones Are Enabling Quality Maternal And Child Healthcare

In 1996, Aparna Hegde was a resident doctor at Sion Hospital, one of Mumbai?s largest public health facilities, when a woman who had just delivered a baby was rushed into e...

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Health

A Massive Amount Of Death Is Plaguing The World's Oceans

Based on a study of 5,829 populations of 1,234 mammal, bird, reptile, and fish species in the world’s oceans, the WWF found a decline of 49 percent between 1970 and 2...

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