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India Drinks And Smokes Less Now

The preliminary findings from National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) released last week have given anti-tobacco campaigners a reason to smile. The survey has found that acr...

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India Still Has A High Rate Of Malnutrition, Reveals New National Health Survey

Malnutrition in India is still high and the number of malnourished children in West Bengal is more than it was a decade back, according to the fourth National Family Health...

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In Winter, Mumbai Uses More Power For Acs Than Any Other Indian Metro: Study

MUMBAI: The Indian winter appears to be the warmest in Mumbai going by the pattern of electricity consumption through air conditioners and refrigerators. A study by The Ene...

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Health

Nigerian Woman Develops App To Reduce Mortality Rate In Africa

Miss Kesandu Nwokolo, a young Nigerian, has developed a mobile phone application to help reduce infant and maternal mortality in Africa. In a statement obtained by the News...

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Environment

Your Birth Control Pills And Hamburgers Might Be Making These Fish Intersex

A strange thing is happening to male smallmouth and largemouth bass swimming in waterways in parts of the Northeast: They are increasingly showing up with characteristics o...

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Environment

Britain Needs to Move Its Antarctic Base Because the Ice Shelf Is Cracking

You can?t stop nature, so there?s only one thing for it: the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is setting up to relocate Halley VI, the latest version of the Halley Research S...

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Dense Forests Lost; Increase In Net Green Cover: Forest Survey Of India 2015

India may have lost 2,511 sq km of prime forests, says the latest Forest Survey of India (FSI) report released on Friday, December 4. Prime forests are classified as very d...

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Gender

Meet 12 Badass Scientists…Who Also Happen To Be Women

Everywhere you look, odds appear stacked against women in STEM. Young male scientists receive up to twice as much funding as their female counterparts in Boston&r...

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Health

Many Parents 'Never Talk About Mental Health' To Children.

A poll of more than 1,100 parents found that 55% had not spoken about the subject to their offspring. Of those, 20% said they did not know how to address the issue. The sur...

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63L Toilets Made In 8 Months: NSSO

A recent sample survey carried out by the government on the usage of toilets seeks to disprove the notion that access to toilets may not automatically change attitudes of p...

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