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24-Year-Old's Suicide Is A Warning That The Mental Healthcare Bill Needs To Expand Its Scope

The provision that decriminalises suicide in the Mental Health Bill is welcome, however, the absence of a complementary provision requiring educational institutions and emp...

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FICCI Frames 2017: Maharashtra IG Police Gives A Clarion Call To Collaborate For Combatting Piracy & Counterfeiting

MUMBAI, March 21, 2017, At the session on ‘Decoding the pirate economy in interconnected world: From Noise to Action’ at FICCI FRAMES 2017, Mr. B...

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This Chennai NGO Helps Women Who Have Been Victims Of Violence With Counselling, Protection & More

There’s a story that Dr. Prasanna Poornachandra, the founder of The International Foundation for Crime Prevention and Victim Care (PCVC), likes to tell that is equal ...

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Evidence From Vidarbha: Psychological First Aid Prevents Suicide Among Farmers

A suicide prevention programme in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region involving community health workers has reduced the prevalence of depression and suicidal tendencies in...

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Can India Promise Its Children HIV-Free Future? NACO Programme Gives Hope

Geeta, 24, is seven months pregnant and is grossly underweight. She and her husband are HIV positive. Her husband believes he got infected through blood transfusions during...

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TBI Blogs: How One Young Man With An MA In Finance Is Using Technology To Build More Inclusive Classrooms

Six years ago, Kushal Dattani found himself volunteering at a special needs school in Melbourne, Australia, as a student pursuing his Masters in Finance. What began as an o...

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Kaleidoscope - Maid For Mumbai

It may or may not be true of other cities, but Mumbai moves on tracks built partly by the bais, the domestic helpers, mostly from rural Maharashtra, who manage homes, so th...

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Melinda Gates, Steve Ballmer, Reid Hoffman Back Text-Based Counseling Service

Crisis Text Line, a free, around the clock text-messaging support line for people in crisis, is getting a massive new round of grants from notable technology names includin...

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Natural Births: Bringing Back The Midwife

Birthing centres like BirthVillage in Kochi are part of a growing trend Dusk-tinted light filters in through the reed curtains covering the large windows of the birthing ro...

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True Review Television - New Battlegrounds At Prime Time

Drama on late Prime Time on Star Plus unfolds on the streets of Bundalganj and in a Delhi courtroom. The two shows which have taken telling turns in their plot are Tamanna ...

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