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India to track toilet use with tablets

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching a nationwide online programme to check whether people are using toilets as part of his cleanliness drive. From next month, officia...

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Sustainable Development

Big accounting firms taking the lead on sustainable development

Accountants around the world are currently considering how the organisations they work for can meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. As experts in measurement ...

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Thought Factory

Why is the World aiming for Sustainability?

To decide the narrative for this article has been quite a task. There are so many approaches to address the issue at hand, I could have been the cynic and looked back on al...

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Health

Pentavalent to replace traditional vaccination methods from Jan mid

In order to replace the traditional method of vaccination of newborn, the state health and family welfare department is all set to launch ??entavalent??vaccination in secon...

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Thought Factory

Looking Back With Concern- Health 2014

A Snapshot of Global Health- 2014

  • Between 2000 and 2012, measles deaths worldwide have been cut by almost 80% ??from 56...

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Thought Factory

An Alternative Exploration of Geopolitics

Hindsight is always 20/20. Subjective to the present, we often tend to overlook patterns and correlation until the objectivity parts the seas to a broader picture. It was o...

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Bollywood

Swachh Bharat: Bollywood celebrities support PM Narendra Modi's stand

According to a report in Mid-day, The Film and TV Producers Guild has urged its members to refrain from displaying posters of their films on public walls and government-mai...

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Health

Atul Gawande: What ails India's public health system

What do you make of India's under-performing, poorly-funded, leaky public health system, smothered by high population and appalling sanitation? It is the same health system...

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Sustainable Development

India Slashes Health Budget, Already Among World's Lowest:

The government has ordered a cut of nearly 20 percent in its 2014/15 healthcare budget due to fiscal strains, putting at risk key disease control initiatives in a country w...

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Bollywood

Amitabh, Priyanka, Sonakshi sign up for Swachh Bharat

Amitabh Bachchan was appointed as the brand ambassador for the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India initiative. In this unique 12-hour Cleanathon campaign, the aim is to create ...

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