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Health

Rs 16cr Plan To Check Maternal Deaths

Pune: The state government has made a provision of Rs 16 crore to improve services at state-run healthcare centres handling high-risk pregnancies. Delivery room facilities ...

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Thought Factory

Of Gender Divide

Since the creation of Eve from Adam’s rib, the human rib on gender issues has not stopped tickling. Left no wiser since Biblical times, the issue remains burning and ...

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Trending

Bill Ensures Family Life For Transgender Children

DELHI: The practice of disappointed families giving away transgender children to bands of ‘third gender’ wandering cities and villages may soon be passe. The &l...

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Bollywood

Deepika Padukone As Bhansali’s Mastani Is A True Role Model For Gender Equality

Perhaps one of the most glaring, disturbing symbols of the regressive patriarchy inherent in our traditions is our treatment of the Indian widow. She has been forced to end...

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Sustainable Development

Swachh Bharat: World Bank Approves Rs 10,000-Crore Loan To Support Campaign

The World Bank has approved a $1.5 billion (nearly Rs 10,036.5 crore) loan for the ambitious Clean India campaign to support the Indian government&...

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TV

Of Demons And Social Pressure

Life OK?s new prime time starter is Jaane Kya Hoga Rama Re. Unlike its predecessors, it has had an unimpressive beginning. Model Town, the site of the narrative is most con...

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Farhan Akhtar Helps DD Series On Women Empowerment Reach Out On Digital Platforms

Actor Farhan Akhtar, who is UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador, has come on the Doordarshan series Main Kuchh Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon as the narrator to help address...

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Gender

13 Women Who Transformed The World Of Economics.

Economist Justin Wolfers recently wrote about how female economists are airbrushed out of academic discussion when they have a male co-author. We decided to bring...

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How Would Tech Entrepreneurs Recode The Foreign Aid System?

Foreign aid agencies have started to pay more attention to the world of tech entrepreneurs in seeking solutions to some of the biggest challenges on the planet. But what do...

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Bollywood

Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon' Narrated By Farhan Akhtar Redefines Edutainment

Mumbai, November 18, 2015 (Washington Bangla Radio): To address regressive practices such as sex selection, early marriage, early and repeated pregnancies, under-nutrition ...

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