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Nearly one thousand people march for LGBTQ rights in New Delhi

Over 1,000 people marched from Barakhamba Road in New Delhi to Jantar Mantar on Sunday to demand an end to discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, q...

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Health

Child nutrition in India’s developed States improves

India’s more developed States, especially its southern States, have seen improvements in child nutrition over the last five years, but have a patchy record on immunis...

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Sustainable Development

Rickshaw drivers take 'respect for women' message to Delhi's streets

Delhi rickshaw driver Narotan Singh was never interested in the problems faced by women and girls – his only interaction with the opposite sex was with females from h...

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Health

Steps Taken by Govt. to Accelerate Pace of Reduction for MMR to Achieve MDG Goals

As per the latest report of the Registrar General of India, Sample Registration System (RGI-SRS), Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of India has shown a decline from 212 per 1...

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Environment

Climate change: India to pay dearly, says Royal Society

Warning that floods like the ones which ravaged Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Odisha are imminent between now and 2090, a report of The Royal Society, London, has suggested effe...

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Thought Factory

Flyover Memories

December 1, 2014 isn?? just significant as the Golden Anniversary of the Eucharistic Congress and the first ever visit of a pontiff to India. It is also memorable for the s...

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Health

India will support surveillance of polio-free countries: PM Modi

Kathmandu: During the ongoing SAARC summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will support medical surveillance of polio-free countries, and provide vaccine...

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Environment

India must be active in Lima climate change talks: Experts

India must get actively get involved in the climate change talks to be held in Peru next month, expressing how much it wants as its share in the "carbon budget", or the cou...

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Health

UN Members Resolve To End Child Marriage

There are now more than 700 million women who were married before their 18th birthday. There are now more than 700 million women who were married before their 18th birthday...

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Environment

Reflecting sunlight into space has terrifying consequences, say scientists

But ?geoengineers? say urgent nature of climate change means research must continue into controversial technology to combat rising temperatures Fighting global warming by r...

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