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Health

Reproductive rights and wrongs: How discrimination blights maternity care

Last week, Brazil becomes the first country to pay compensation to the family of a woman who died in childbirth as a result of negligence and discriminatory practices in ma...

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Environment

Global warming could dry out a third of the Earth by 2100

Forget changing rain patterns — warmer temperatures alone could bring drought to a third of Earth’s land area by the end of the century. That’s the gist o...

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Bollywood

Charity auction for Zarine Screwvala's Swades foundation offers a date with Ranbir

It’s a glittering champagne evening and dinner, with the highlight of a starry auction. Zarine Screwvala has put together a swish charity event at Palladium hotel on ...

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Environment

Climate change, air quality and health

The third National Climate Assessment report, due to be released this month, confirms both the role of human activities in causing climate change and the broad range of adv...

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Sustainable Development

India ranks 102 out of 132 nations on social development index

India ranks 102nd among the 132 countries on the Social Progress Index, a measure of human well being that goes beyond traditional economic measures such as GDP or per capi...

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Bollywood

B-town’s men Ranbir, Big B, Akshay, Sidharth, Farhan walk the ramp for the ladies

Bollywood’s hot men Ranbir Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra walked the ramp for Manish Malhotra’s fashion show &ndash...

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Sustainable Development

India's Shift to a Sustainable Energy Future

India is the world’s fourth-largest energy consumer and will likely overtake China in the next decade as the primary source of growth in global energy demand. As NBR ...

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Sustainable Development

India forecast to grow 5.5% this year: ADB

Developing Asia is poised to sustain its current growth momentum and is well positioned to manage risks coming from a slightly slower Chinese economy and possible uneven de...

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TV

Weekend Prime Time's New Face

Television screens dripped with a new face over the weekend -- Jackky Bhagnani, with or without his Youngistan costar Neha Sharma, which released last week. From Friday nig...

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Sustainable Development

Gender Equality a Precondition of Meeting Challenge of Poverty

The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2014 which created Telangana, has made the population ratio as the framework for allocation of assets and liabilities, between Telan...

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