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Bridging The Digital Divide: UP’s Frontline Health Workers Go ‘Smart’

LUCKNOW: In an effort to strengthen data-keeping of rural health indices in UP, the state government will train over 12,000 frontline health workers to report, in real-time...

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Environment

Almost Half Of The World's Ocean Life Has Died Off Since 1970

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature's 2015 Living Blue Planet report, since 1970, Earth has lost a whopping 49 percent of global marine animal species. For their in...

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Hollywood

Gwyneth Paltrow Uses `Ironman` To Mark Gender Pay Gap In Hollywood.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has used ‘Ironman’ Robert Downey Jr. to highlight the gender pay gap in the industry. In an interview with Variety, Paltrow said that &l...

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Gender

How Do We Keep Girls In School?

Following the World Development Report (2012), we discuss policies that can change the price of schooling under three categories: (i) direct costs; (ii) indirect costs; and...

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Festivals

Salman Khan's 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' Gets Standing Ovation At Busan International Film Festival

After enthralling the audience in India, Salman Khan’s “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” has reportedly impressed an audience of 5,000 people at the Busan International...

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Gender

Gender Parity Could Add 60% To India’s GDP By 2025

“The report analysed 15 gender equality indicators for 95 countries home to 93 per cent of the world’s women and 97 per cent of the world’s GDP”. An...

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Health

Condom-Vending Machines Rust As HIV Cases Increase

Guwahati: Lying unused and unstocked, the state’s condom-vending machines have found no takers. Even as the state records more and more cases of HIV/AIDS, the ambitio...

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Gender

Gender Inequality Is Costing The World $28 Trillion

A new report quantifies what enlightened employers have long known: gender parity in the workforce has enormous value. A new study from the McKinsey Global Institute analyz...

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Steven Soderbergh Might Be Making An Interactive Movie For HBO

Never one to shy away from narrative experimentation, Steven Soderbergh is reportedly working with HBO on a mysterious project that’ll break new ground in terms of vi...

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Health

National Health Profile 2015: Suicides On A Rise, Cancer Cases May Grow By 15 Per Cent In Five Years.

The burden of aspirations and expectations seems to be taking a toll on young India, especially males who succumb to suicidal deaths more than their female counterparts, ac...

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