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CLIMATE CHANGE: Himalayan glaciers melting more rapidly

The Himalayan glaciers that feed major south Asian rivers like the Indus, the Brahmaputra and the Ganges are melting more rapidly, reveals a major new study which says that...

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Hollywood

Jennifer Hudson Stand Up To Cancer

Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, and Genentech, one of the world’s leading biotech companies, have joined forces with GR...

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Health

Hatching Superbugs

At a time when chicken consumption is at an all time high in India, a study by Delhi non-profit Centre for Science and Environment shows poultry meat could be churning out ...

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Environment

Global Warming May Increase with Rising Water Vapor in the Atmosphere

What might cause global warming to increase in the next few decades? It could be water vapor. Scientists have found that rising levels of water vapor in the upper troposphe...

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Eye Think

Read this, and then do the maths: How many mango trees before he can count my tears?

In a distant, sleepy village in Uttar Pradesh, whose name I would have never heard had a lot of politicians and news TV's OB vans not landed there...

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Gender

Read this, and then do the maths: How many mango trees before he can count my tears?

In a distant, sleepy village in Uttar Pradesh, whose name I would have never heard had a lot of politicians and news TV’s OB vans not landed there recently to bring i...

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Health

Expert group meets to draft guidelines for maternal health, antenatal care interventions

A 3-days Expert Group meeting for drafting Technical and Operational guidelines for various maternal health interventions like Calcium supplementation, Gestational Diabetes...

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Environment

Climate change and air pollution will lead to famine by 2050, study claims

The world is expected to need 50 per cent more food by 2050, with around four billion more mouths to feed. But this food could soon be in short supply due to increasing tem...

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Sustainable Development

Systematic approach to in-situ water harvesting assures irrigation

During summer, the field is ploughed and furrows (one foot depth) are made. When it rains the water stays back in each of the furrows and sinks into the soil. Fast changing...

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Hollywood

Chelsea Clinton wants more girls involved in STEM

Chelsea Clinton has been on the move these past few weeks. Last week, she spoke at a Google event in New York City; celebrating Google’s $50 million pledge to help cl...

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