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Sustainable Development

School Funding: Do Poor Children Get Their Fair Share?

Research suggests increased spending on education can improve student outcomes, especially among low-income students. This means that targeted increases in funding could he...

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Health

Mental Health: Huge Gap Between Health & Provision

The research, by the Mental Health Rights Campaign, found that general practice is falling short of the standards of care to which it aspires. The group comprises people af...

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Human Rights

India Has 31% Of The World's Poor Kids

About 31% of the world’s “multidimensionally poor” children live in India, according to a new report by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiativ...

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Health

Diarrhoea Kills Half A Million Children Globally, Shows Lancet Study

Immediate and sustained action urged as diarrhoea remains among leading causes of child mortality despite improved access to clean water and sanitation Half a million child...

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Gender

Helen Mirren On Why She Resisted Calling Herself A Feminist At First

Though Helen Mirren emphatically calls herself a feminist now, she admits she's resisted the term in the past. Making the commencement speech at Tulane University in New Or...

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Trending

Impact Of Mothers Learning

Literacy programmes for mothers can not only improve their own learning skills but also impact their children's education, a recent study has found. During the one-year stu...

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Hollywood

When Will Hollywood Movies Get LGBT Characters Right?

Out of 125 movies released by the major studios in 2016, there was one transgender character: a non-binary fashion model named All who was used as a punchline in Zoolander ...

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Health

Paediatricians Demand Preventive Policy For SAM Children

New Delhi: In a letter addressed to Health Minister J P Nadda, a group of 16 medical practitioners, most of whom are paediatricians, has urged the government to take policy...

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Health

Seventieth World Health Assembly Opens In Geneva

In her final opening address to the World Health Assembly as Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan offered some advice to delegates "as you continue to shape the future of thi...

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Health

Making Of A Healthy And Happy India

Private sector and civil society will have to work together to reach the ambitious goal set by Family Planning 2020 Imagine an innovation that could break entrenched cycles...

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