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Sustainable Development

India’s Biggest Challenge will be to address Modern Poverty

Last September, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation released its annual Goalkeeper’s report, highlighting the extraordinary progress...

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Powerful People

Dr Lakshmi Lingam: A Person with long years of Experience in Public Policy Advocacy Work in Women’s Movements in India

“The mobile phone is a revolutionary artefact of our times: it represents a great potential for resha...

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Sustainable Development

A Project to track our Ecological Footprints

‘Development’ is shorthand for committing to well-being for all. ‘Sustainable’ implies ...

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Environment

Eight million tons of Plastic Waste dumped onto the Oceans Every Year

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Thought Factory

Change and its many manifestations in India

Everyone in the country has a mobile phone. India has more than a billion phones, second only to China. Almost 240 million people have telev...

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Health

Can Mindfulness Reduce Fear Of Labour & Postpartum Depression

Anxiety about labour – and what might come afterwards – causes stress for expectant mothers and increases risk in childbirth. But there could be a natural solut...

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Human Rights

India Has 31% Of The World's Poor Kids

About 31% of the world’s “multidimensionally poor” children live in India, according to a new report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiativ...

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Health

Superpower Dreams: On How India Must Respond To A Low HDI Rank

India’s rank of 131 among 188 countries on the UNDP’s Human Development Index for 2015 and its ‘medium’ performance pose the uncomfortable question:...

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Trending

A small City In Iowa Is Devoting 1,000 Acres Of Land To America's Vanishing Bees

You've probably heard the news that our nation's bees are in trouble. Pollinators have been disappearing for decades, and the population crash could threaten the global foo...

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Bollywood

‘Empowering Women To Facilitate Human Development’

KOLKATA: In the conference titled "Jaagruti- EmpoweringWomen to Facilitate Human Development" organized by the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata, Pande said women are c...

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