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How A Pack of Cards Helped Improve Maternal Health In Bihar

While India has been reporting a steady decline in its maternal mortality rate, the country still accounts for the largest number of maternal deaths in the world. In 2010, ...

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Environment

Tensions Ramp Up Over Proposed Energy East Pipeline In Canada

North America's longest proposed pipeline is facing a new hurdle after a coalition of Canadian environmental groups sent a letter today slamming the project as a "fiasco" a...

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Sustainable Development

How Elon Musk Willed SpaceX Into Making The Cheapest Rockets Ever Created

Over the span of little over a decade, SpaceX went from being a space company made up of amateur rocketeers and a dude who helped start an internet banking company to our b...

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Sustainable Development

Only 180 Community Radio Stations Despite Financial Aid By Govt

Despite the scheme being almost a decade old and the government extending FINANCIAL assistance, the total number of operational community radio stations (CRS) in the countr...

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Hollywood

Paul Simon To Host Annual Children's Health Fund Benefit

The Children's Health Fund will hold its annual benefit on June 1, hosted by CHF co-founders Paul Simon and Irwin Redlener, MD. The event will feature a special appearance ...

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Bollywood

Deepika Padukone Supports Gokuldham Society’s ‘Save The Girl Child’ Initiative

After saving a girl child, the residents of Gokuldham are lauded for their heroic act and flooded with congratulatory greetings from across the city. Even Bollywood actress...

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Festivals

Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival Concludes Amid Much Fanfare

Guwahati witnessed the third edition of the Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival on April 24-26. The three-day festival not only gave the opportunity to watch some of the best ...

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Health

A Promise To The Missing Moms

When Comfort Fayiah went into labor in Monrovia, Liberia, at the height of the Ebola crisis, her family could not find a health centre where she could deliver. Many centres...

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Environment

Govt Begins Giving Out Daily Air Quality Bulletin For 11 Cities

Exactly a month after launching the national Air Quality Index (AQI), which had its share of teething problems, the Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesda...

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Sustainable Development

India’s New Economic Model: Sustainable Development The Buddhist Way

Over 2500 years ago, Siddharth Gautam, a 29 year old man from India undertook a spiritual quest. His 6-year-old journey took him from Kapilvastu, then in India, to Bodh Gay...

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