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Ranchi: Mobile Course To Train 40k Health Workers In Maternaland Child Healthcare

More than 40,000 health workers in the state are set to be trained in maternal and child healthcare through voice messages on their cell phones. Come February, the Jharkhan...

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Sustainable Development

Elon Musk On The Hyperloop: 'I’m Starting To Think It’s Really Going To Happen'

Hyperloops will use partially pressurized tubes to propel “pods” or passenger cars on a bed of air at speeds of up to 760 mph. SpaceX hosted a competition this ...

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Environment

Why Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes To Fight Disease Is Probably A Bad Idea

But what would a world free of mosquitoes look like? Would it be an Earth in which the infectious diseases that plague millions are completely, permanently, and mercifully ...

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Festivals

Stanley Film Festival Splits With Dfs; Gives Up The Ghost For 2016 Fest

Is the Stanley Hotel giving up the ghost on its film festival? For the past three years, the haunted landmark raised cinematic spirits with the Stanley Film Festival. But t...

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Health

Family Planning Is 'Critical Link' In Eradicating Poverty

Giving people access to family planning is crucial to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030, reproductive health experts said this week. Speaking at an...

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Bollywood

Arjun Kapoor Talks About Gender Inequality Through Ki & Ka!

Arjun Kapoor feels homemakers are not given their due in the society and the actor says his upcoming film Ki &Ka will begin conversations about them. In the R Balki-dir...

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Sustainable Development

NASA Engineers Unveil The First Light-Based Modem For Spacecraft

To send and receive data, orbiting spacecraft depend on radio-frequency communications. It's been this way since the 1957 launch of Sputnik 1, which made use of two radio f...

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Environment

German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too

Germany — IN the deep stillness of a forest in winter, the sound of footsteps on a carpet of leaves died away. Peter Wohlleben had found what he was looking for: a pa...

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Festivals

Film Festivals Can Compete With Smartphones: Berlinale Chief

Film festivals still have a bright future in a world in which more audiences watch movies and television series on smaller and smaller devices, the veteran head of Germany'...

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Independent

Rush Hour Producer Arthur Sarkissian Is Making A Movie About Elderly Jewel Thieves

One of the hardest things about getting old, other than all of your friends dying and the lack of good Hollywood roles, is the way that people assume you can’t really...

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