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India may miss U.N. Millennium Development Goal for maternal mortality rate

India, which accounts for the largest number of maternal deaths in the world, is unlikely to achieve the fifth Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality to...

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Sustainable Development

Child marriage, sexual abuse with minor girls alarmingly high in India: When will it stop?

It seems in India, the plight of girls will not get over that easily as the latest UN reports have revealed some shocking facts. The reports have narrated the ordeal of gir...

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Sustainable Development

Go low-carbon for the money, says high-profile report

Is it too good to be true? Top economists this week lay out an audacious argument for transforming the world’s economy into a low-carbon one. Even if you forget clima...

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Health

Put the Physical in Education

When confronted with an overly active child, many exasperated teachers and parents respond the same way: “Sit still!” It might be more effective, though, to enc...

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Environment

J&K floods a grim reminder of increasing climate change impact in India: Centre for Science and Environment

As Jammu and Kashmir continues to reel under its worst floods in 60 years, which have stranded over 6 lakh people and killed about 200, the attention is slowly veering towa...

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TV

A Moment For Sony Pal

Sony Pal has used an old marketing tool which was common in Bollywood in the 1980s. The most widely cited context is Subhash Ghai?s Hero which was a launch vehicle for Jack...

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Health

What Makes Community Health Care Work?

In response to Tuesday’s column about two programs in India that train relatively uneducated women as their villages’ health workers, readers provided an avalan...

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Hollywood

Naomi Judd Selling Off Memorabilia For Charity

The award-winning singer/songwriter has cleared out her closets and storage spaces and those belonging to her husband Larry Strickland, who performed with Elvis Presley, in...

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Thought Factory

An Encounter With Sir Richard

When I met Richard Attenborough after a press conference on a Sunday morning at Bandra’s Sea rock Hotel, he was wearing a turquoise blue kurta and fawn trousers, a wi...

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Health

Now, a treatment for mouth cancer that kills only cancerous cells!

Cancer of the mouth and throat are the most common cancers in Indian males, because of the high incidence of smoking, chewing tobacco and the widespread use of pan masala. ...

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