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Cushion Mothers, Care For Children To Deliver Growth

Highlighting the need to focus on maternal and child health or long-term growth, the Economic Survey 2015-16 gas called for early life interventions and low-cost investment...

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Eye Think

Seeds For Cinema: An Interview With Dr Shravan Kumar, CEO, CFSI

“At CFSI we not only want to make films but also make film makers”
-Dr. Shravan Kumar
On the fifteenth of February, Director, Producer and Managing Di...

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Why Ratan Tata Is Backing This Young Man's Idea Of Saving Stray Dogs From Roadkill

Posted on February 20, 2016: Tens of thousands of stray dogs are killed on Indian roads every year. While individual numbers vary from city to city, no one is really keepin...

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Human Rights

Gay Rights Are Human Rights

The human rights of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) people have reached centre stage. Curative petitions have been referred to a Constitution Bench w...

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Health

High Rate Of Maternal Mortality, C-Section Cause For Concern

Even after achieving an enviable position in primary health care, the State continues to have a high maternal mortality rate (MMR). With 250 mothers dying in child birth ag...

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Environment

Air Pollution Kills 5.5 Million People A Year — Over Half Of Them In China, India

Air pollution caused more than 5.5 million premature deaths in 2013, with more than half of those occurring in China and India, according to a new study, and pollution mort...

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Gender

Women Considered Better Coders – But Only If They Hide Their Gender

When a group of computer science students decided to study the way that gender bias plays out in software development communities, they assumed that coders would be prejudi...

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Environment

The Train Derailment That Gushed Oil Into A Quebec River Has Spawned Freaky Fish

What is shocking, however, is the extent of the problem: the rate of the deformations in one sample was found to be ten times higher than normal.
The 2013 derailment o...

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Environment

Greenhouse Gases Could Eventually Heat The Earth Enough To Boil Its Oceans Away

In 2013, NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen published a short whitepaper that warned if humans burned all the planet’s available fossil fuels, i...

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Health

The Zika Declaration

THE Zika virus has been the predominant item across news agencies this past couple of weeks. Until the outbreak in Brazil in May last year (2015), most of us can probably s...

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