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Fracking To Prompt Sharp Rise In Greenhouse Gas Emmissions

Fracking is set to lead to a sharp rise in emissions of climate changing greenhouse gases, newly undermining industry and government claims that shale gas is a relatively c...

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Human Rights

India's Doctors Learn Safer Abortion Techniques To Cut Maternal Deaths

Lying in bed clutching her abdomen, a young Indian woman leans over her toddler to retrieve some pain relief from the stash on her bedside table at a private hospital in De...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

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Sustainable Development

Beyond Ribbon Cutting

When we started Fixes, we were hoping that interested readers would write in with their own ideas and experiences.  Anyone who read the comments on our debut column, &...

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Thought Factory

DEMOCRACY

I grew up in several places in India, amidst many changing political times as we know.
I lived with the two books, Discovery Of India by Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru,...

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Health

Mumbai HPV Vaccine Proven To Dramatically Reduce Infection Among Teenage Girls

Since its introduction in 2006, the HPV vaccine has sharply cut the rate of infection in young women, a new study published on Pediatrics reports.The American Academy of Pe...

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Eye Think

Seeds For Cinema: An Interview With Dr Shravan Kumar, CEO, CFSI

“At CFSI we not only want to make films but also make film makers”
-Dr. Shravan Kumar
On the fifteenth of February, Director, Producer and Managing Di...

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Health

Motorbike Ambulance, A Boon For Tribals In Naxal Belt

Virtually cut-off from the modern world, tribals living in inaccessible terrain and dense forests of Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Narayanpur district never imagined that t...

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Retroscope

Retroscope - Jagjit Singh- A Sweet Recollection

I don’t recall when I first met the two, Jagjit and Chitra Singh. It must be sometime in the early 1970s, when Chitra came round to our tiny apartment on 29th Road TP...

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Sustainable Development

For Many, A Life-Saving Drug Out Of Reach

Mark Kinzly saved two lives this week. But he wouldn’t have been here to help if a friend hadn’t once done for him what he’s now repeatedly done for other...

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