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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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Human Rights

India: Protection Of Traditional Knowledge In India

The coming into force of the Nagoya Protocol in October will have great benefits for the defence of indigenous people's rights over their resources, and strengthen India's ...

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Sustainable Development

India's New Open Internet Law Is Stronger Than The United States'

India’s landmark new open internet policy, which was hailed by net neutrality advocates around the world on Monday, increases the pressure on American regulators to a...

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Environment

There's One Thing That Could Make The Zika Virus Much More Dangerous — Climate Change

The mosquito-born Zika virus was declared an international public health emergency last week — a designation last used for Ebola — and could infect as many as 4...

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Hollywood

Kathleen Turner Helps Name Winners Of Democracy For All Video Challenge

On Tuesday the winners of the Democracy For All Video Challenge were announced at an event aimed at putting the issue of big money in politics front-and-center and creating...

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Sustainable Development

This Bacteria-Powered Microrobot Navigates via Electric Fields

Engineers from Drexel University have devised a bacteria-powered microrobot that can be steered through fluids with applied electric fields. Imagine a tiny, tiny robotic sy...

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Environment

At Least 14 Dead And 100 Missing After Quake Topples Apartment Tower In Taiwan

At least 14 people are dead and more than 100 are still missing after a powerful earthquake shook southern Taiwan on Saturday morning, causing a high-rise building in the c...

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Bollywood

Tusshar Kapoor: Priyanka Chopra Is Not Just An Inspiration To Women, But Also To Guys!

Priyanka Chopra has been in the news since her debut in ABC’s Quantico last year. She also won the People’s Choice Awards for the Best Actress in a new series a...

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Sustainable Development

The People Building Elon Musk's Hyperloop

The hyperloop, Elon Musk’s futuristic, tube-based “fifth mode of transportation” has stoked imaginations unlike any recent transportation technology ...

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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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