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Veena Jain Appointed As DD News DG, To Hold Additional Charge In New Media Cell

Veena Jain, a 1984 Indian Information Service officer, will be taking over as director general (DG) of News in Doordarshan.  Additionally, Jain has also been asked to ...

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Climate Change Blamed As Thousands Die In Indian Heat

For the wealthy of India, the annual heatwave before the monsoon is inconvenient, especially when water stored in black tanks on the roof becomes too hot to use for a showe...

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After Polio, India Set To Win Battle Against Tetanus At Childbirth

A year after obtaining WHO certification for the elimination of polio, India is on the verge of crossing another milestone in public health. It has eliminated maternal and ...

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Most Glaciers In Mount Everest Area Will Disappear With Climate Change – Study

Most of the glaciers in the Mount Everest region will disappear or drastically retreat as temperatures increase with climate change over the next century, according to a gr...

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Can Big Data Based Intelligence Substitute Human Creativity?

Some time ago BBC published an article titled, “Calculated Risks: Will Algorithms Make Business Boring?” In the article, the author related this story: When Net...

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Beach Reading (And More)

Last year, there was only one book on my summer reading list that you could reasonably call a beach read. This year I tried to pick a few more things that are on the lighte...

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Maternal Mortality: Not Just A Human Rights Issue

Around the world, governments, non-governmental organizations and public health entities have made major strides in tackling some of the greatest health challenges facing c...

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Bureaucracy Continues To Plague Indian Pubcaster Prasar Bharati

Today, most of the Doordarshan (DD) Kendras and AIR Stations are without Station Directors, which is the major cause for poor content and crash in TV audience of DD. The dy...

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Climate Change Might Mean Fewer Hurricanes — But They’ll Probably Be Stronger

VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Hollywood producers and pulp fiction scribes have depicted a variety of wa...

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Scientists Can Now Transform Blood Cells Into Neurons

Taking a trip to a clinic to give blood has just become a mission with a dual purpose. Scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to take those blood samples and...

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