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Bollywood actor Salman Khan Surveys Loos In Aarey Colony's unit number 7

Following an announcement of becoming brand ambassador for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) anti open defecation drive last week, Salman Khan has decided to b...

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Environment

Mining For Smartphone Metals Could Kill Rare And Beautiful Deep Sea Creatures

Last March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association exploration vessel Okeanos made a remarkable discovery while surveying the deep sea floor off of Hawaii. In the...

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Health

Indian Households’ Healthcare Woes

The low penetration of health insurance and high health costs expose Indian households, especially those at the bottom of the pyramid, to severe financial shocks, according...

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Sustainable Development

200,000 Years Of Staggering Human Population Shown On Animated Map

Last night, during a talk on his new book Raising the Floor, longtime labor leader and current senior fellow at Columbia University Andy Stern told the story of a king and ...

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Bollywood

Madhuri Dixit Adds Star Power To AIF’s Women-Child Health Care Symposium

The American India Foundation partnered with Stanford Medicine to host a symposium on maternal and child health care in India Oct. 14, an event which saw a string of high-p...

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Human Rights

The Hipster Hunger For Superfoods Is Starving India's Adivasis

Every morning, Baisa, a forest-dwelling Karbi woman, gets up at 4 am to forage fresh wild edible plants and insects from the forest. At the market in Diphu, Baisa is able t...

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Health

Health Cost Of Air Pollution In India Assessed At 3 Per Cent Of Its GDP

The cost of serious health consequences from Particulate Matter pollution is estimated to be around 3 per cent of India's GDP, according to a Health Ministry statement in L...

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Environment

Will The Internet Of Things Sacrifice Or Save The Environment?

The internet of things (IoT) – that ever-expanding ecosystem of digital sensors, home appliances and wearable smart devices – attracts its fair share of attenti...

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Non-Profit Creates Open-Source Drinking Water Filter For 1/10th Of The Cost

Non-profit organization OHorizons recently created an innovative BioSand Filter that can deliver clean water at 1/10th of the cost of traditional methods. The filter hinges...

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Health

The Future Of Healthcare In India

Estimates indicate that healthcare costs drive an additional 4% of Indian families, over 50 million people, into poverty each year Nachiket Mor is the India Country Directo...

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