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Less than 500 days left, can India meet its MDG targets?

Going by current trends, the target for reducing infant mortality and improving other human development indices seem near impossible to achieve Less that 500 days are left ...

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Environment

More rainfall predicted in second half of monsoon

Some regions like Marathwada, Punjab and Haryana to remain parched The threat of drought in India is not over yet. According to the latest forecast by India Meteorological ...

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Health

Rotavirus vaccine can reduce 26,985 deaths in India

The central government’s decision to introduce rotavirus vaccine in India’s Universal Immunization Programme can reduce as many as 26,985 deaths annually due to...

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Environment

BASIC nations to discuss climate change talks tactics

Ministers of China, Brazil and South Africa to hold closed-door talks with Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and team The ministers of China, Brazil and South Africa, ...

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Sustainable Development

Rice from dry river

Farmers in an arid Andhra Pradesh district revive traditional irrigation system to tide over drought They had reached the channel even before daybreak, carrying shovels, si...

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Health

33,000 girls vaccinated against cervical cancer

More than 33,000 girls aged nine to 13 have been vaccinated against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) to protect them from cervical cancer in the country. The beneficiaries w...

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Movies

True Review: Kick

Critics Rating: 1 STARS*

CAST*: Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Randeep Hooda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui,

Direction: ...

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Health

Combining vaccines may help eradicate polio

Combining two types of polio vaccine, including one that is injected rather than given orally, appears to give better immunity and could speed efforts to eradicate the crip...

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Hollywood

Anne Hathaway And Adam Shulman Hide Their Faces For Charity

Over the 4th of July weekend, actor, producer and jewelry designer Adam Shulman and his wife, actress Anne Hathaway, met paparazzi with cardboard signs covering their faces...

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Sustainable Development

India?s green cover has increased, but outside demarcated forests

Latest state of forests report shows increase of green cover by 5,871 sq km; most of the increase is owing to plantations India’s green cover is increasing, but this ...

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