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Disability The Changing Pattern Of Healthcare In India

The government’s allocation to healthcare as a percentage of GDP has fallen to 1.05% in 2015-16 from 1.47% in 1986-87The evolution of healthcare in India over the pas...

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Gender

GM’s Mary Barra Adds Chairman Role, Breaking Gender Ground Again

Mary Barra, who has spent her entire career at the company, succeeds Tim Solso, who will remain on the board as lead independent director General Motors Co.’s board e...

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Trending

4 Tech Trends To Expect At CES 2016

The start of a new year also means a chance for the tech world to start afresh. And that also means the world’s largest consumer electronics show, CES 2016, which kic...

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A Milestone Year For Media

The foremost was the rollout on 29 April of the Broadcast Audience Research Council India, the country’s homegrown television audience measurement data The year 2015 ...

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Thought Factory

Initiating A Dialogue Toward Inclusive Identities

“When was the first time you realised that you were a boy or a girl?”
This was one of the initial questions asked to ten year ol...

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India Climbs Six Places On WEF’s Gender Index

At 108 out of 145 countries, India’s ranking in the global gender index, compiled every year by the World Economic Forum (WEF), has climbed six places, primarily on a...

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Sustainable Development

The Powerloom Lobby Is Out To Destroy India’s Handloom Advantage: Ashoke Chatterjee

The former Crafts Council of India head on why the Handloom Reservation Act of 1985 should be made sacrosanct. Speculation that the government plans to amend the handloom A...

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Sustainable Development

Mobile Phones Empower Women

Is using a mobile phone a symbol of independence? Is it a simple tool of communication or a medium that provides rights? Why do women lag behind among those who use cellpho...

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Sustainable Development

Globalizing sustainable development

The question of how the world can end extreme poverty and improve human wellbeing will take on new urgency in 2015, as the millennium development goals (MDGs) expire and a ...

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Health

Should India make health a fundamental right?

As a symbolic gesture, it is great to make health a justiciable right; but as citizenry, we would be foolish to let the healthcare debate be hijacked by this non-issue, or ...

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