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Sustainable Development

NGOs Offer Recommendations on Data Revolution

Numerous civil society groups and academics focus on efforts for a global data revolution for the post-2015 development agenda, in recent blog entries, open letters, and re...

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Health

mHealth Program to Start Serving Mothers in India’s Largest Slums

Birju was one of about 100 women living in the Mumbai slums who started receiving messages under MAMA’s mMitra program last week. The information conveyed is based on...

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Bollywood

Sandip Soparrkar performs at fundraiser in Mumbai for Catalyst for Social Action

Bollywood ace choreographer Sandip Soparrkar performed at the 5thannual Charity Brunch to raise funds for the NGO Catalyst for Social Action (CSA), here, on Sunday.

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Sustainable Development

World conference on education for sustainable development opens next week in Japan

Unesco’s director-general, the Crown Prince of Japan and Princess Lalla Hasna of Morocco — the President of the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the...

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Environment

PM?s climate change council recast

The Union government reconstituted the Prime Minister?s Council on Climate Change on Wednesday to coordinate the National Action Plan for Assessment, Adaptation and Mitigat...

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Health

Infants to get free treatment till age one in Rajasthan

Extending the scope of the Janani Shishu Suraksha Yojana (JSSY) with an aim to bring down the infant mortality rate (IMR) in the State, the Rajasthan government has decided...

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Hollywood

Former Hollywood mogul finds fulfilment in a Cambodian rubbish dump

Scott Neeson left the movie industry for Southeast Asia and set up the Cambodian Children’s Fund
The Apostle Paul’s epiphany came in a blinding flash on th...

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Health

With aim to end tuberculosis by 2020, Harsh Vardhan announces free treatment for all

“TB is a by-product of poverty,” Harsh Vardhan pointed out. “I strongly believe TB control should be taken up by everyone as a development issue. The resp...

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Environment

Why scientists are (almost) certain that climate change is man-made

ON NOVEMBER 2ND the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which represents mainstream scientific opinion, said that it was extremely likely that climate change ...

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Health

‘Malnourishment declined sharply among children in India’

The proportion of underweight children in India might have declined from 45.1 per cent in 2005-6 to a historic low of 30.7 per cent last year, new provisional data from a s...

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