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Punks, Pereras and Happy Hookers: Women of the South Asian musical diaspora

A number of young South Asian women are making inventive, cutting edge music, channeling the spirit of Grace Jones, Patti Smith and punk rather than Raj Kapoor. Are we livi...

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Health

For an aspiring global power, India suffers from shocking levels of malnutrition

The bad news is that India continues to lead most countries in several malnutrition and mortality indicators. The latest UN report places India’s maternal mortality a...

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Health

Too much sun could make you a UV addict, raise cancer risk

It is common knowledge that exposure to sunlight helps the skin synthesise vitamin D. But at the same time prolonged exposure can also lead to skin cancer. The degree to wh...

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Hollywood

Sting Sends Video Message To Amazonian Chiefs

Sting has sent a special video message to Amazonian chiefs at a London press conference highlighting accelerating threats to their rights and the rainforest. Renowned Amazo...

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Health

How technology can save India’s vanishing generation

For India’s children, the journey from a crib to grave is indeed very short. A Save the Children study has reported that over three lakh babies die on their first-day...

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Sustainable Development

Fixing India?s Sanitation Problem Requires More Than Toilets

Here is a number most of you know: more people practice open defecation in India than anywhere in the world – more than 600 million individuals. Moreover, 60% of hous...

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Sustainable Development

Cost of growth: Global natural resources depleting by 45% a year

Analysis of data by World Bank from 136 countries shows poor countries are losing natural resources fast without gaining much by way of human resource capital or gross weal...

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Health

A simple yet rare solution

Iron deficiency in newborns can be checked if doctors wait for two minutes before cutting the umbilical cord More than 75 per cent infants in India suffer from anaemia or i...

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Hollywood

Sky Ferreira to perform at David Lynch fundraiser

Sky Ferreira is to perform a concert to raise funds for David Lynch’s transcendental meditation charity as she is convinced the technique saved her life. The pop star...

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Health

HIV infection due to unsafe medical injections may have fallen by almost 90% worldwide in decade after 2000

The number of HIV infections in low- and middle-income acquired due to unsafe medical injections by 87% between 2000 and 2010, investigators report in PLOS One. The authors...

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