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Improving Rural Health Care, One Boat Trip At A Time

More than 10 years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika heard about the death of a mother in a remote island in Assam, a state in northeast India, because she couldn’t get to the hos...

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Festivals

Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival Concludes Amid Much Fanfare

Guwahati witnessed the third edition of the Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival on April 24-26. The three-day festival not only gave the opportunity to watch some of the best ...

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Health

Assam’s rural health practitioners face uncertain future

In mid-February, rural health practitioners of Assam sat on a three-day protest in Guwahati, demanding assured career and regular jobs. This follows a high court order, whi...

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Health

Poor access to maternal healthcare for Assam Adivasi women: report

A report on access to healthcare of Adivasi women working in tea gardens in northern Assam’s Sonitpur district has revealed that they face many obstacles like corrupt...

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Sustainable Development

India’s bride markets grow, while trafficking convictions decline

The shortage of brides in some states with skewed sex ratio has made human trafficking a lucrative trade The Indian predilection for aborting or killing the female child ap...

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Health

Crusaders against maternal health rights abuse

In a State where health rights is somewhat an alien subject, some 40-odd women, mostly from the tea garden community, are acting as ambassadors of maternal health rights of...

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Health

Non-prevalent' 10 states see rise in HIV patients, record 57% cases

The number of HIV patients has registered an increase in states where it was earlier being considered to be non-prevalent with 10 such states together accounting for 57 % o...

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Bollywood

Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma auction costumes to raise funds for charity

Bollywood actors Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma who will be seen together in upcoming film, ‘Bombay Velvet’, have auctioned their costumes in order to raise f...

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Health

Child nutrition in India’s developed States improves

India’s more developed States, especially its southern States, have seen improvements in child nutrition over the last five years, but have a patchy record on immunis...

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Festivals

Film Bazaar unveils projects under ‘Work in progress’ Lab

Mumbai, November, 2014: The eighth edition of Film Bazaar, organized by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), will take place from Read More