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Global Fight Against Tuberculosis Hinges On India Stepping Up Funding: WHO

India is critical to the global fight to end an epidemic of tuberculosis by 2030 and must step up funding to control the disease, the World Health Organisation said, citing...

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Environment

China Is Tapping Tibetan Glaciers To Meet Growing Demand For Bottled Water

Driven both by convenience and concerns about the country's widespread pollution, the Chinese drank nearly 10.6 billion gallons of bottled water in 2013, the Hong Kong-base...

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Hollywood

Geena Davis: Kudos To Jennifer Lawrence, But Women In Hollywood Have A Long Way To Go.

The Oscar-winning actress, who runs the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, writes about how women’s representation in Hollywood has remained static since 1946....

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Health

National Health Profile 2015: Suicides On A Rise, Cancer Cases May Grow By 15 Per Cent In Five Years.

The burden of aspirations and expectations seems to be taking a toll on young India, especially males who succumb to suicidal deaths more than their female counterparts, ac...

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Sustainable Development

Underwater Hobby Drones Are About To Become A Thing.

The Trident is being developed by the team behind the OpenROV kit, a build-it-yourself underwater drone—technically, a remote-operated underwater vehicle, or ROV&mdas...

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Health

What Will Kill Us? Not Child Health And Maternal Nutrition

Poor dietary habits and high blood pressure have replaced child and maternal malnutrition, unsafe water, sanitation and lack of hand washing as leading risks for death glob...

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Sustainable Development

Making Sustainability Tangible – An Oxymoron or a possibility?

“If tomorrow’s business leaders don’t “get” sustainability, then the chances of a sustainable tomorrow are slim.”
Sust...

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Thought Factory

Making Sustainability Tangible – An Oxymoron or a possibility?

“If tomorrow’s business leaders don’t “get” sustainability, then the chances of a sustainable tomorrow are slim.”
Sustainability, l...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Health

Disease Caused By Reduced Blood Supply To Heart Now Biggest Health Scare In India

Ischemic heart disease or illness in which blood and oxygen supply to heart is reduced is emerging as the main health problem in India. It often leads to heart attacks.

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