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India may miss U.N. Millennium Development Goal for maternal mortality rate

India, which accounts for the largest number of maternal deaths in the world, is unlikely to achieve the fifth Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality to...

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Health

Rotavirus vaccine can reduce 26,985 deaths in India

The central government’s decision to introduce rotavirus vaccine in India’s Universal Immunization Programme can reduce as many as 26,985 deaths annually due to...

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Health

Deploying midwives in poor nations could avert millions of maternal and newborn deaths

Researchers have said that a small increase in number of skilled birth attendants in the world’s poorest nations could save the lives of a substantial number of women...

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Bollywood

Amitabh Bachchan & Aamir Khan To Launch Dilip Kumar's Biography 'Substance And Shadow'

Come June 9th and the long wait for the biography of Bollywood thespian Dilip Kumar will be over! The biography ‘Substance and Shadow’, which was earlier schedu...

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Environment

Global warming behind loss in area of glaciers in Himalayas

The area coverage of the glaciers in the Nepal Himalayas has decreased by nearly 1,266 km due to global warming, raising serious concern for the environmental balance of th...

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Movies

True Review: Manjunath

Critic’s Rating: 2.stars.

Cast: Sasho Sattyish Sarathy, Yashpal Sharma, Seema Biswas, Kishore Kadam, Anjori Alagh, Faisal Rashid, Raj...

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Sustainable Development

UN Concerned Over Health Care for Below Poverty Line Families in India

A top United Nations official today expressed concerns over the health care of families who fall below the poverty line in India. “Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is ...

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Environment

India drafts policy to cut carbon emissions from deforestation

India, one of the world's largest polluters, has drafted a national policy aimed at reducing its carbon emissions from deforestation as part of a global scheme which financ...

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Health

WHO presents manual for countries to eliminate malaria

On the occasion of World Malaria Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday launched a manual to help countries assess their achievements in eliminating the disease...

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Health

India Proves Why Vaccines Work – Here’s How That Country Solved a National Epidemic

The anti-vaccination movement has yet another inconvenient truth to explain: the near-complete eradication of the polio virus across an entire country thanks to a sweeping ...

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