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Environment

Air Pollution than AIDS and TB kills more people in India

A report published by The Lancet Commission on pollution and health ranks India the No. 1 spot for pollution-related deaths with 2.51 million deaths in 2015. The S...

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Bollywood

Emraan Hashmi Lends Support to #1SmallStep

Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi recently lent his support to 1SmallStep, to help children diagnosed with cancer, and is working to help build an emergency fund to ailing chil...

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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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Trending

Locals Are Paying The Rent To Keep A Govt School Running In This Punjab Village

The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act (Article 21A) was brought in by Parliament on 2010, yet this basic constitutional right is still denied to many students acro...

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Health

The Sterilisation Skew

Sterilisation is simpler in men than women — recovery time and surgical risk are smaller, complications are rare and deaths rarer. Yet, as the national ‘Vasecto...

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Human Rights

India Needs To Develop A Strategy For Training Human Resources For Mental Healthcare

The emergence of suicide prevention as a public health challenge requiring urgent national action has been painfully slow globally. The urgency has been slower in middle- a...

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Health

IUD's, The Pill & Sterilisation: Your Experiences Of Contraception

Accessing family planning is not easy for many women, who face cultural or religious opposition, supply shortages and doctors who won’t listen More women than ever ar...

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Hollywood

Jimmy Carter Work Project To Build 100 Homes In 1 Week In Nepal

Bringing together 1,500 volunteers from within Nepal and around the world, Habitat For Humanity’s 32nd annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project ...

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Gender

Small Loans Mean Big Opportunities For Women In The Philippines.

Like most women around the world, the women of Talisay, a small city on the central Philippine island of Negros, juggle many duties throughout the day. They manage the hous...

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Health

MD/Phd Student Expanding Research And Advocacy For Health Care In India

UMass Medical School students are working in Gujarat, India, this summer to improve health care in the mostly low-income rural region. They are conducting health disparitie...

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