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Steps Taken by Govt. to Accelerate Pace of Reduction for MMR to Achieve MDG Goals

As per the latest report of the Registrar General of India, Sample Registration System (RGI-SRS), Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of India has shown a decline from 212 per 1...

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Environment

Climate change: India to pay dearly, says Royal Society

Warning that floods like the ones which ravaged Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Odisha are imminent between now and 2090, a report of The Royal Society, London, has suggested effe...

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Health

India will support surveillance of polio-free countries: PM Modi

Kathmandu: During the ongoing SAARC summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will support medical surveillance of polio-free countries, and provide vaccine...

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Environment

India must be active in Lima climate change talks: Experts

India must get actively get involved in the climate change talks to be held in Peru next month, expressing how much it wants as its share in the "carbon budget", or the cou...

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Health

UN Members Resolve To End Child Marriage

There are now more than 700 million women who were married before their 18th birthday. There are now more than 700 million women who were married before their 18th birthday...

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Sustainable Development

Many Indian girls are going to incredible lengths to get the education they deserve

India is hardly the place that comes to mind when you think of places that have made strides in girls’ education. Headlines are filled with stories of how badly the c...

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Festivals

Naseeruddin Shah’s book And Then One Day – A Memoir launched by Shyam Benegal

Literature Live! Evenings and Penguin India in association with NCPA presented an evening with author Naseeruddin Shah in conversation with Anil Dharker at...

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Bollywood

Priyanka Chopra picks garbage for Clean India campaign

Actress Priyanka Chopra took it upon herself to clean up a garbage-strewn neighbourhood in Mumbai as part of her efforts towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean ...

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Festivals

NFDC Film Bazaar 2014 closes, marks new beginnings

~Film Bazaar sessions and labs bridge the gap between global film industries ~
~ Some promising projects: ‘No Land’s Man’, ‘Proposition for a R...

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Sustainable Development

Social Norms Biggest Challenge in Child Rights: UNICEF

Prevailing social norms such as early marriage and child labour are the biggest challenge in implementing child rights in the country, a UNICEF official said. “The ma...

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