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Environment

Odisha set to implement Climate Change Action Plan

With Climate Change becoming a phenomenon affecting almost every part of the world, local governments are taking it into their hands to turn things around. Odisha, a state ...

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Sustainable Development

Cuba: The Meaning of Human Rights

Cuba, a communist country has been showing great progress in the fields of development and human rights. Some statistics that show this rise are as follows:
As a resul...

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Health

World Innovation Summit for Health 2013: Obesity is a global public health pandemic

In an obesity report published at the summit today, experts, examined obesity related health problems in eight countries, as well as the economic and social burdens it crea...

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Health

Building partnerships with patients is critical to improving health reform practices

Patient engagement will be the “blockbuster drug of the 21st century” which will help countries “shepherd resources,” said Susan Edgman-Levitan, Exe...

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Bollywood

Bollywood stars Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, John Abraham, Anushka Sharma express disappointment on Twitter over Supreme Court verdict on homosexuality

Bollywood celebrites on Wednesday voiced disappointment over the Supreme Court verdict that criminalised homosexuality, calling it “violative of basic human rights". ...

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Thought Factory

Pages from the Diary of a Community Health Worker

It was just another day in the late summer of 1992. Fresh from the success of a community intervention that sought to limit the effects of an outbreak of a gastrointestinal...

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TV

Reaching out beyond the screen

Television has ceased to be the idiot box, it is now more than just a medium of entertainment; we cannot override it as a medium of social influence.  Anita, a 38 year...

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Sustainable Development

Financing for sustainable development: Can the international financial system make the leap?

The Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals may still be pondering the number and nature of the new goals. However, the question of which issues are “goal...

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Health

Limits of Vitamin D Supplements

A large review of studies has found that vitamin D supplements have little or no benefit beyond the low levels required for bone health.
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Festivals

REPORTERO

Synopsis

In Mexico, investigative journalism can be a life-threatening profession. A veteran reporter and his colleagues at an independent newsw...

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