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MDG Report: India On Track In Reducing Poverty

‘But it still remains home to one quarter of global underfed population’ India has halved its incidence of extreme poverty, from 49.4 per cent in 1994 to 24.7 p...

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Health

NITI Aayog Pinpoints Glaring Issues In Healthcare Due To Limited Budget Allocation

The NITI Aayog’s (National Institute for Transforming India) health division has observed glaring issues in healthcare with limited budget allocation. Disparity in he...

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Health

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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Gender

Girls Rule In An Indian Village

Though small and remote, the village of Mawlynnong, bordering Bangladesh in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, attracts tourists from all over the globe. Most c...

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Environment

Link Between Unseasonal Rains, Disasters & Climate Change: Is India Playing The Ostrich?

Soon after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal in end-April, geologists based in Europe asserted that the tragedy was caused by climate change. These experts were of the ...

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Bollywood

Nepal Earthquake: Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Akshay Kumar Pray For Wellbeing Of Victims

Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Shahid Kapoor tweeted their concerns for those affected by a massive earthquake measuring 7.9 on the richter scale in N...

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Bollywood

Aamir Khan, Sonakshi Sinha walk the ramp for charity

A bevy of Bollywood stars along with superstar Aamir Khan and actress Sonakshi Sinha walked the ramp for 10th Annual Caring with Style fashion event in Mumbai on March 1. A...

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Environment

Millions at risk from rapid sea rise in Sundarbans

The tiny hut sculpted out of mud at the edge of the sea is barely large enough for Bokul Mondol and his family to lie down. The water has taken everything else from them, a...

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Eye Think

How Data Can Improve the Impact of Stories

‘Our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose. Any good story, any good novel, should have a message’, wrote Chinua Achebe, the ...

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Bittu Sahgal Environmentalist says “Animals know how to look after the earth”

Bittu Sahgal and stalwarts Diya Mirza, Irfan Khan, Mayur Shah, Sunjoy Monga, Atul Sathe, Pravin Shetty part of environmental discourse at ‘Young Round Square ...

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