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Keeping Tab On Child, Maternal Health Gets Smarter In Raj

Accredited social health activists (ASHAs) and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANMs) carrying heavy registers with hand-written details on pregnant women, antenatal care, post-na...

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Human Rights

India’s Anti-Trafficking Efforts Still Need Improvement

The 2016 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which the State Department released on June 30, documents a significant increase in both the number of human trafficking prose...

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Health

Breastfeed, For Keeping Newborns Free Of Infections

A new study based on data collected from the city claims breastfeeding within one hour of birth prevents neonatal sepsis
Here is another reason for mothers to breastfe...

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Human Rights

Putting Their Lives On The Line For Information

More than a month has passed since J Parasmal, a 58-year-old Right to Information (RTI) activist who used the tool to unearth building violations in Sowcarpet, was hacked t...

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Free TV Channels Proliferating: Here's Why?

With BARC’s rural data, the business sentiment for FTA (free-to-air) channels is improving. So much so that some broadcasters are now turning their pay channels into ...

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Sustainable Development

Light Pollution Is Throwing Off The Seasons

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers describe how night-time light pollution is causing early budburst—emergenc...

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Health

Infant Mortality Rate: Target Set By Millennium Development Goals Not Met

Sample Registration System (SRS) Bulletin 2014, published by the Registrar General of India and was released earlier this month shows that none of the ten big states (for w...

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Sustainable Development

It's Safe To Eat These 4 Crops Grown In 'Martian Soil'

Since 2013, a Dutch researcher has successfully been cultivating crops and wild plant varieties in a soil that closely resembles that from the red planet and the moon. Now ...

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Health

Health Ministry's Own Survey Projects Bleak Picture

A far from healthy picture emerges of India when one carefully analyses data on country's health that was released by the
government. While there have been gains in th...

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Drone Data Sparks a New Industrial Revolution

Businesses are learning that sometimes the best way to boost the bottom line is by reaching for the sky.Commercial drone usage across a wide variety of industries is explod...

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