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Human Rights

India's Doctors Learn Safer Abortion Techniques To Cut Maternal Deaths

Lying in bed clutching her abdomen, a young Indian woman leans over her toddler to retrieve some pain relief from the stash on her bedside table at a private hospital in De...

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Gender

Spread Disrupting Gender Stereotypes

For those who think that gender inequality in the UK is just a pipeline issue that will surely resolve itself in time, What Works may come as quite a shock. As ch...

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Gender

Devangshu Datta: How Not To Fix India's Gender Ratio

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi recently suggested that sex determination during pregnancy be made compulsory; that the gender of the unborn child be reg...

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Health

PCPNDT Act Has Adequate Teeth, Say Experts

PCPNDT Act, Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques,  National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights, Common Health, CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into ...

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Sustainable Development

Design Advance Could Mean Commercial Light-Based Processors Within A Few Years

A team of engineers from MIT, UC Berkeley, and the University of Colorado have overcome a major barrier to light-based computers, offering a means to move beyond the increa...

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Gender

How One Woman Made 100 Villages In Rajasthan Fertile Using Traditional Water Harvesting Methods

Amla Ruia has transformed the face of over 100 villages in Rajasthan by using traditional water harvesting techniques and building check dams. This is the story of how she&...

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Festivals

Santa Fe Film Festival Explores The Role Of Drones In Filmmaking

It’s a bird; it’s a plane – no, and it’s not a superhero, either. It’s a drone, and it may be making movies. 
Sending a camera up on...

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Sustainable Development

Microbes From Human Skin Have Colonized The ISS

Researchers led by Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a molecular biologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studied dust particles collected from ISS vacuums and air filter...

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TV

True Review TV - A Classic Revisited

Monday evening saw the start of Life OK?s newest serial -- Ek Tha Chander Ek Thi Sudha, a page out of the best of Hindi literature -- Dharamvir Bharati?s iconic novel, Guna...

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Environment

The Real Pygmies Experience': Evicted Batwa People Now Just Act Out A Previous Life For Tourists.

Perched on a ladder made of branches leaning against a large tree, the pygmy hunter slowly raises his bow towards the the thick canopy of the equatorial forest. His muscles...

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