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Human Rights To Be Part Of School Curriculum In Karnataka

School students will, in all likelihood, be studying a new chapter from the coming academic year. Heeding to the request of the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSH...

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Human Rights

A Tamil Movie Based On True Events Has Sparked Off An Uneasy Debate On Police Brutality

In 1983, Coimbatore-based auto driver Chandran was working as a waiter at a hotel in a village near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. One day, he and a few other labourers from Tam...

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Health

Unicef Meet In Assam Over Childbirth Deaths

Unicef, Assam, is taking a slew of measures to curb the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in the state. It is planning to scale up the intersectoral consultation among various ...

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Environment

The Pentagon Just Issued Marching Orders On Climate Change

The boring-but-important 12-page document issued in January tells the armed service chiefs and top civilian officials to identify how climate change will affect their missi...

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Sustainable Development

What Mobile Tech Innovation Offers Food Security

Humanitarian organizations delivering food assistance in conflict-affected areas or regions plagued by natural disasters or outbreaks of epidemic diseases cannot do their j...

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Health

Next Week Is Motherhood Week, 1l Pregnant Women Targeted

Allahabad: With an objective to take better care of pregnant women and ensure antenatal care (ANC), the health department would hold Motherhood Week from January 27 to Febr...

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Festivals

Goa To Host Science Film Festival Of India On Jan 14

In a cinematic treat for sci-fi movie enthusiasts, Goa is all set to host the first edition of Science Film Festival of India (SCI-FFI) from January 14. The three-day event...

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Health

Mumbai: 'No Gynaecs In Rural Areas To Provide Basic Delivery Services'

Mumbai: An audit carried out by the state government of all maternal deaths, including those during medical termination of pregnancy (MTPs), have found three main causes be...

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Festivals

Film Festival-2016 To Showcase Cinema Of The Northeast

Arunachal Pradesh is all set to host ‘Film Northeast-2016,’ a film festival of the region from February 17 to 20 here to promote understanding and appreciation ...

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Environment

No, Bacon Isn't Better For The Environment Than Lettuce

That surprising claim was featured prominently on the press release for the study, which also included a statement from one of the study's authors, Paul Fischbeck: "Eating ...

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