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This Community Fridge Is Helping The Homeless & The Hungry

As the bell chimes loudly at the Shiv Temple in Versova, an elderly woman hobbles towards the temple’s gates, briefly stopping by the flower vendor, who nods at her a...

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Health

World Milk Day: Interesting Facts And Health Benefits Of Milk

India is the world's largest producer of milk, and is the leading exporter of skimmed milk powder, yet she exports very few other milk product. New Zealand, the European Un...

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Environment

Plants Can See, Hear And Smell - & Respond

Plants, according to Jack C Schultz, "are just very slow animals". This is not a misunderstanding of basic biology. Schultz is a professor in the Division of Plant Sciences...

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Health

Paediatricians Demand Preventive Policy For SAM Children

New Delhi: In a letter addressed to Health Minister J P Nadda, a group of 16 medical practitioners, most of whom are paediatricians, has urged the government to take policy...

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Human Rights

Widows Of India: My Children Threw Me Out Of The House

Self-immolation, sati, on a husband's pyre may have been banned in India, but life for many widows in India is still disheartening as they are shunned by their communities ...

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10 Selfish Reasons To Save Elephants

Elephants can help humans live longer, healthier, happier lives. Help them, and we help ourselves It sometimes feels as if we are living in the elephant’s darkest hou...

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Environment

New Robotic Fish For Environmental Monitoring

A group of researchers from Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR CSIC-UPM) in collaboration with researchers from University of Florence are designing autonomous underwa...

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Health

Junk Food Ban Is Not Enough: Schools

On Monday, the Maharashtra government issued a resolution instructing schools to stop serving junk food in their canteens, to stem health problems and aid learning. Foods b...

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The Allure Of Ads

Commercials that mirror society and its idiosyncrasies are part of the prime time watch Stephen Leacock once famously defined advertising as the science of arresting the hu...

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Human Rights

In India, Only 1 In 10 Children Aged 6 to 23 Months Gets Adequate Diet

Only one in 10 Indian children aged 6-23 months gets “adequate diet”, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data from National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NF...

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