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Amitabh, Anushka To Launch Narendra Modi Govt's 'Darwaza Band' Campaign To Make India Open Defecation Free

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and actress Anushka Sharma will on Tuesday launch the Narendra Modi government's `Darwaza Band` campaign aimed at making India open def...

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Health

India Needs To Fight Maternal Mortality With A Sense Of Urgency

Healthy India is certainly a possibility by aligning proper mother and child care with universal health coverage, which is a long-term objective for India. To achieve this,...

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Health

We have a roadmap on antenatal care - now we need to deliver

A new publication by the WHO has produced 49 recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience. Death in pregnancy remains a scourge that we have the po...

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Gender

Activists Call On World Leaders To Make Gender Equality Pledge A Reality

World leaders must back up their pledge to end gender inequality with concrete commitments on how they plan to empower women, said activists preparing for the UN Commission...

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Sustainable Development

Water Building A "Planet 50:50 By 2030"

Today is International Women's Day, and this year's theme is "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality!" The reference to 2030 is about the deadline for the new...

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Environment

Obama’s Clean Power Plan, And Lessons For India’s Own Climate Change Strategy

?The biggest, most important step we have ever taken to combat climate change?. ?That is how President Barack Obama described the Clean Power Plan he unveiled last week. Th...

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Health

How To Turn Big Health Data Into Big Health Action

Mobile technology has revolutionized data-collection tools for health workers, but unless that data creates meaningful change, the “data revolution” will strugg...

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Environment

Climate Change: India Asks Developed Nations To Finalise Pre-2020 Action Plan

Ahead of the Climate change talks in Paris, Environment minister Prakash Javdekar today called on developed nations to formulate their pre-2020 action and roadmaps. Speakin...

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Environment

The U.S. Military Worries About Climate Change, So Why Don't Republicans?

On Friday, the Obama administration put climate change on the par with other global challenges like cybersecurity, terrorism, and Russian aggression, warning in a 35-page n...

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Environment

India should take a more proactive role in climate change negotiations: R K Pachauri, IPCC chairman

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman RK Pachauri laments that policy directives to implement Narendra Modi's "no-effect" guideline are yet to be prepar...

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