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Record CO2 emissions committing world to dangerous climate change

Global greenhouse gas emissions on course to reach record high of over 40bn tonnes in 2014, study in Nature Geoscience says Children born today will see the world committed...

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Sustainable Development

Poverty Makes Minority Kids More Vulnerable To Abuse

Children belonging to minority communities face increased risk of maltreatment due to exposure to poverty, says a U.S.-based study.
Poverty – rather than biased ...

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Health

Dash of Salt Does No Harm, Extremes Are the Enemy

For years, we have known that diets high in salt can be bad for people with high blood pressure. A study published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed...

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Health

Less than 500 days left, can India meet its MDG targets?

Going by current trends, the target for reducing infant mortality and improving other human development indices seem near impossible to achieve Less that 500 days are left ...

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Sustainable Development

For a better life outside prison walls

For the 10 prisoners who began tilling a piece of land on the premises of Coimbatore Central Prison on Wednesday, it was a positive step forward in their life. Thanks to th...

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Health

8 states report 71% of total infant deaths

Have you ever wondered why child death (IMR) and mother death (MMR) are going down so slowly in India? Part of the answer can be found in a recent survey report put out by ...

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Sustainable Development

At 240 million, India has a third of child marriages in the world

A recent United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) report said 720 million women around the world, alive today, were married before 18 years compared to 156 million men...

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Health

Alarming increase in global use of antibiotics, India is the largest consumer

A research published in a medical journal has sounded an alarm on overuse and misuse of antibiotic drugs A research published in a medical journal has sounded an alarm on o...

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Environment

Climate change and air pollution will lead to famine by 2050, study claims

The world is expected to need 50 per cent more food by 2050, with around four billion more mouths to feed. But this food could soon be in short supply due to increasing tem...

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Health

Improving health care, CONGRATULATIONS! INOCULATIONS!

The World Health Organization gives China a glowing report for its lowering of infant and maternal mortality rates FANS of the China model frequently say that, for all the ...

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