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In India, Only 1 In 10 Children Aged 6 to 23 Months Gets Adequate Diet

Only one in 10 Indian children aged 6-23 months gets “adequate diet”, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data from National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NF...

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Sustainable Development

Strong Coffee Stronger Women: Bill Gates

Why? First, that descending red line captures one of the most amazing stories of human progress: It shows how the number of deaths of children under 5 per year has been cut...

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Gender

A Feminist History Of Women's Tattoos

Since the election, Jess Koala, a tattoo artist at Black + Blue in San Francisco, has seen an uptick in the number of clients looking to get feminist tattoos. She’s i...

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Festivals

Habitat Film Festival To Feature Om Puri Tribute Retrospective

Om Puri’s frequent collaborator, organised filmmaker Govind Nihalani, will host the retrospective segment on the veteran actor at this year’s Habitat Film Festi...

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Health

Cancer Ravages Health As Well As Personal Resources In India

"You have cancer."
These terrifying words resonate in the ears of someone diagnosed with the dreaded disease. And for their family, the first thoughts are about the af...

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Environment

Why Living Around Nature Can Make You Live Longer

Living closer to nature is better for your health, new research suggests — and may even extend your life. A study just published in the journal Environmental Health P...

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Kaleidoscope

Devious Heroines

Female protagonists in novels are getting to be increasingly dangerous; and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl seems to have triggered off a trend of the nasty heroine. Sarah ...

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Human Rights

Caught In The Crossfire

The wanton killings never seem to stop. A bomb attack recently on refugees inside their own homeland in Syria led to the ghastly deaths of 68 children in Aleppo. There were...

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Health

World’s First Malaria Vaccine Will Be Tested In Kenya, Ghana And Malawi

The world’s first malaria vaccine will be tested on people from three African countries—Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. On April 24, the World Health Organization anno...

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Gender

Liberia's Female Entrepreneurs Rebuilding Economy

Liberia has seen better days. Three years ago, the tiny African country faced the worst Ebola epidemic of all time, resulting in more than 11,000 deaths across it and its n...

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