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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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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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Stephen Hawking's Latest PSA Takes On 'Diet Tips'

Stephen Hawking, while a bona fide genius, is also the type of friend who regularly tells it like it is, even when you kind of wish he wouldn’t. Earlier this month, h...

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Emma Thompson Backs Campaign To Empower Women

Emma Thompson has backed a campaign to support and empower women and girls living in poverty around the world.
The 57-year-old actress is working with ActionAid UK to ...

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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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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 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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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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Firefly Becomes First Completely Fan-Curated Music Festival

Firefly Music Festival takes place from June 15-18 in the Woodlands of Dover, Delaware. The festival has announced plans to become the first completely fan-curated music fe...

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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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