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India gets it first mental health policy

Timed to coincide with the World Mental Health Day, the policy aims to provide universal access to mental healthcare, especially to those living in poverty The Union health...

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Environment

Coastal cities need to plan for climate change

Coastal cities in India need to plan and implement climate risk management strategies as an integral part of city development, experts said Friday. They were participating ...

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Health

Ebola effect reverses gains in maternal, child mortality

Maternal and infant deaths in Liberia and Sierra Leone are set to rise above their current alarming rates as fear of Ebola keeps pregnant women away from hospitals and make...

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Sustainable Development

Kailash Satyarthi: student engineer who saved 80,000 children from slavery

Indian children?? rights activist hails Nobel peace prize as an honour to young people ??hose voice has never been heard??Kailash Satyarthi says his heroes are the children...

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Sustainable Development

International surrogacy is 'new frontline in human trafficking', says judge John Pascoe; Indian case sparks renewed calls for inquiry

Calls have intensified for an inquiry into international commercial surrogacy after another case of Australians leaving children behind overseas. There are renewed calls fo...

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Movies

True Review: Left Behind

Critics Rating: 1.5 Stars*

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Cassi Thomson, Chad Michael Murray, Nicky Whelan

Direction: Vic Arm...

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Sustainable Development

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi are true inspirations for standing up for children's rights

Following the announcement that Pakistani schoolgirl and education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai and Indian children?? rights activist Kailash Satyarthi have been awar...

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Health

Flu vaccination 'a lifesaver'

Up to 1,000 people could die in Ireland from flu over the coming months, health chiefs have warned. People who are particularly at risk from the potentially deadly effects ...

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Health

Ebola, Beyond the Headlines

I??e spent the past week meeting with politicians, policymakers, and reporters in New York, Washington D.C., and Boston. One topic has pretty much dominated the conversatio...

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Environment

Air pollution caused fall in monsoon rains, says study

Emissions produced by human activity over the past 50 years have caused decline of the annual monsoon rainfall, on which billions of people - including in India - depend, a...

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