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Free vaccinations to protect babies against deadly bug

New Zealand babies will be entitled to free vaccinations against a highly infectious and potentially deadly gastric bug from tomorrow. The new oral rotavirus vaccine is one...

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Health

For an aspiring global power, India suffers from shocking levels of malnutrition

The bad news is that India continues to lead most countries in several malnutrition and mortality indicators. The latest UN report places India’s maternal mortality a...

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Sustainable Development

National rubber policy must protect growers, urges planters’ association

The proposed national policy on rubber should reflect the real concerns of all stakeholders in the sector and protect the livelihoods of rubber growers in the country, urge...

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Sustainable Development

How rural India spends

Contrary to general perception, rural people in India are spending more on commodities that are considered major urban expenditure, such as food, energy, cereals, pulses, v...

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Sustainable Development

Cost of growth: Global natural resources depleting by 45% a year

Analysis of data by World Bank from 136 countries shows poor countries are losing natural resources fast without gaining much by way of human resource capital or gross weal...

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Health

A simple yet rare solution

Iron deficiency in newborns can be checked if doctors wait for two minutes before cutting the umbilical cord More than 75 per cent infants in India suffer from anaemia or i...

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Hollywood

Dolly Parton Hand Delivers Millionth UK Imagination Library Book

Country music legend Dolly Parton recently hand-delivered a Braille copy of Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit to Dylan Manifold of Liverpool. The classic text...

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Sustainable Development

India to boost Bhutan energy ties

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Bhutan National Assembly session in Thimphu on Monday. Mr Modi arrived in Bhutan on his first foreign trip after becoming Prime M...

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Hollywood

George Clooney : Why Americans Should Care About The Sudan

George Clooney and the ENOUGH Projects’ John Prendergast have co-authored an op-ed for Vice News on why why Americans should care about the Sudan. “There are re...

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Stars Call To End Animal Experiment Secrecy

The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) has welcomed support from Ricky Gervais and Paul O’Grady, who have joined the NAVS campaign to end secrecy in animal expe...

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