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Environment

How will climate change affect livelihoods in South Asia?

How does a warming environment affect rainfall, cropping patterns, livelihoods? What could be the alternatives that people whose livelihoods are hit by the effects of clima...

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Global Designer Salim Asgarally Sets Example For Fashion Industry To Open Its Arms With Scholarships For The Underprivileged

Salim Asgarally is a name synonymous with high craftsmanship. His creations are a creative blend of the east and the west, with many of them gracefully adorning the homes o...

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Environment

Now, climate smart rice to save farmers in India's flood prone areas

Farmers in India's eastern region, prone for flash floods, are now shifting to flood-tolerant variety of rice, developed by Manila-based International Rice Research Institu...

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Sustainable Development

Indian Muslim women strive to break poverty cycle

The 18-year-old Muslim helps support her diabetic mother, father and five siblings by working as a maid—while also taking free vocational classes at the National Inst...

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Health

Maternal depression symptom rates increase four years after birth of child

Maternal depression is more common four years after the birth of a woman’s first child than at any time during the child’s first year, new research shows. A Mur...

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Sustainable Development

Two-stroke vehicles are the worst polluters

Six per cent of bikes and 70 per cent of three wheelers run on two-stroke engines in India Two-stroke scooters and mopeds are a significant source of vehicular pollution. A...

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Sustainable Development

India: State goes missing in healthcare; 70 percent is private

More than 70 percent of healthcare in India is provided by corporate houses as a result of which poor people are not able to afford the high cost of medical care provided b...

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Hollywood

Brian Grazer And David O. Russell Speak Up For Kids

On May 8th, the Child Mind Institute and Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer hosted a special Speak Up for Kids panel discussion at the Paley Center for Media in Lo...

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Leaders From Three Continents Join Fellowship To Bring New, Local Perspectives On International Development To Global Dialogue

“This year’s class of fellows is an impressive crowd that will match the incredible work we saw in the first class of New Voices,” said Andrew Quinn, dire...

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Health

Decline of Child, Maternal Mortality Rate in India Fast: Report

India reduced child and maternal mortality since 2000 at a rate faster than the global one but it still needs to do a lot more, according to studies conducted by a US-based...

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