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MD/Phd Student Expanding Research And Advocacy For Health Care In India

UMass Medical School students are working in Gujarat, India, this summer to improve health care in the mostly low-income rural region. They are conducting health disparitie...

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Rural Development Ministry, NACO Sign Pact To Aid HIV-Affected People

NEW DELHI: In a bid to reach out to people affected by HIV/AIDS and those vulnerable to it, the Rural Development Ministry today inked a pact with NACO for mainstreaming th...

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Modi Govt’s Next Big Thing: Postal Bank Soon

India’s massive postal network is likely to turn into payment banks by late next month, reaching out to the unbanked section of the society under Prime Minister Naren...

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Hollywood

Akon To Launch First Solar Academy In Africa

Akon and Akon Lighting Africa initiative have just announced the creation of a “Solar Academy” to develop skills and expertise in sustainable energy in Africa. ...

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Health

Improving Rural Health Care, One Boat Trip At A Time

More than 10 years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika heard about the death of a mother in a remote island in Assam, a state in northeast India, because she couldn’t get to the hos...

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Bollywood

Amitabh Bachchan To Feature In Social Ads For DD Kisan

Bollywood mega star Amitabh Bachchan has been roped in for a social ad campaign and will feature in audio visuals, radio jingles including field publicity for the latest ch...

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NETWORK18 PRESENTS THE INDIA – CHINA DIALOGUES

New Delhi, 15th May 2015: In the lead up to PM Modi’s visit to China, Network 18 hosted ‘The India – Chi...

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Health

In Rural Gujarat, 60% Mothers Die Few Days After Delivery

Dahod resident Ganga (name changed) went to a private doctor when she suffered from breathlessness and giddiness in the ninth month of pregnancy. She was given medicines an...

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Sourav Ganguly Joins Unique Swachh Bharat campaign

Coca-Cola India, NDTV and UN-Habitat’s multi partner programme for Happy, Healthy and Active schools – Support My School – has completed a significant mil...

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Bollywood

How Foundations Like Ronnie Screwvala's Swades Are Helping Entrepreneurs Emerge From Rural India

For Ronnie Screwvala this was an unusual success story. At a community centre in Khamgaon, a village 166 km south of Mumbai, he engaged a group of 25 rural women, all dress...

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