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Mobile Diagnostic Device That Helps Pregnant Women In Rural India Receive Timely Medical Attention

A six-page report published in September by the established UK medical journal Lancet provided some shocking figures about maternal mortality in India. It revealed that in ...

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Festivals

Mumbai Film Festival: Day 3 And 4 Highlights

It’s a mixed bag as the Dardennes disappoint, Verhoeven provokes and Larrain delights Turns out the director of Basic Instinct, Starship Troopersand Showgir...

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Human Rights

How To Find A Resilient Solution To Extreme Poverty

In the last two weeks, the devastation in Haiti from Hurricane Mathew has grown more and more shocking. Families woke up to see their neighborhoods in tatters, and the numb...

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Human Rights

Country's First Accessibility Audit Fails To Find A Single Disabled Friendly Building

India's first accessibility audit of buildings and public places has not found a single completely disabled-friendly building, exposing terrible plight of people with disab...

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Environment

Plastic Waste Dumped In UK Seas 'Carried To Arctic Within Two Years

Marine plastic pollution is a huge problem, with 5tn pieces of plastic now floating in the world’s oceans. The plastic is frequently mistaken for food by fish and bir...

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Health

Indian Women Facing Early Menopause: Survey

Nearly 4 per cent of Indian women experience signs of menopause between 29 and 34 years of age, says a recent survey conducted by The Institute for Social and Economic Chan...

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope - An Enduring Romance

A play about marital infidelity has been winning fans over the years, instead of shocking conservative Indians. Bernard Slade’s Tony award-winning romantic comedy Sam...

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Environment

Honey Bee Extinction Will Change Life As We Know It

Biologists have been warning the agriculture industry about colony collapse disorder (CCD) for more than a decade. Between 2006 and 2007, beekeepers around the US began to ...

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Trending

World No-Tobacco Day: Rules Are In Place But No Enforcement?

Every day, we witness some 10-15 cancer cases which are tobacco related, says Dr C. Ramesh. The Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology sees over 2,840 tobacco-related cancer...

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Hollywood

Andrea Arnold In Cannes: I Was Shocked And Upset By The Poverty I Saw In The US

The director of Palme d’Or contender American Honey has spoken about how the experience of making her first movie outside the UK informed her thinking about poverty a...

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