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Report On Mental Health In Vidarbha: ‘Six-Fold Rise In Proportion Of People Seeking Depression Care’

There has been a six-fold rise in the proportion of people who sought treatment for depression across 30 villages in Amravati district of Vidarbha, which has been at the ep...

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Human Rights

No Debate On Healthcare In India

My former domestic help came to work one day in the early weeks of demonetisation, looking dreadfully ill. She had fever and the local pharmacies were refusing to sell her ...

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Sustainable Development

The Great Indian Rural Vacation

Airbnb, the peer-to-peer network for rental accommodation, recently signed a partnership with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (Sewa), a non-profit, for rural ho...

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Environment

The Ice Is Breaking: The Famed Winter Chadar Trek In Ladakh

The famed winter Chadar trek in Ladakh is drawing increasing hordes of adventurers every year. At what cost? Tundup Wangail still remembers the first time he set foot on th...

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Festivals

Democracy-Themed Film Festival To Portray Myanmar’s Present

This festival will both examine and celebrate democracy – an event that would have been unthinkable in Myanmar just a few short years ago. Union Minister for Informat...

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Alternative Entertainment

Striking Photo's Of A Ballet Program Bringing Strength To One Of Africa's Biggest Slums

Fredrik Lerneryd spent the last year and a half photographing a group of ballet dancers in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest urban slums in Afri...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Does Not Like Being Paid 'Much Less' Than 'The Boys'

Bollywood diva Priyanka Chopra has proved to be a game changer when it comes to Asian actors in Hollywood. Speaking to BBC News, the erstwhile Miss World opened up about wh...

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Hollywood

Robert De Niro Praises Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes Speech

Robert De Niro has applauded pal Meryl Streep for taking aim at Donald Trump in her Golden Globes lifetime achievement award acceptance speech. The actress’ passionat...

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Health

Can Wearable Sensors Tell When You're Sick?

It may one day be possible to spot illness the same way many of us already track our exercise habits and sleep patterns: with wearable sensors, researchers say. In a new st...

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Human Rights

A New Year Reminder: India's HIV Bill Does Little To Ensure Access To Treatment

Since pressure to draft the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014, began to be mounted more than a decade ago, socio-political circumstances have considerably ch...

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