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Environment

Centre finally wakes up and decides to study extreme weather events after Kashmir floods

Following India experiencing "extreme weather events" in regular intervals ? Leh cloudburst in 2010, Uttarakhand tragedy in 2013 and now unusually heavy rain and floods in ...

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Sustainable Development

Poverty Makes Minority Kids More Vulnerable To Abuse

Children belonging to minority communities face increased risk of maltreatment due to exposure to poverty, says a U.S.-based study.
Poverty – rather than biased ...

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Health

Flu shots effective in pregnant women with or without HIV

Tests conducted in 2011 and 2012 show that the influenza vaccine effectively prevents flu infections in pregnant women, whether or not they are infected with HIV. Vaccinati...

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Environment

Climate change led to the fall of great civilisations

Scientists probe ancient barley to understand the impact of climate on early farming societies Civilisations thrived only when there was proper rain and water was available...

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Sustainable Development

Does India need a bank for women?

India’s government thinks so. Plans for such a bank – the first state-run one of its kind in India – were announced in the annual budget. Finance Minister...

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Health

Hormone ‘protects brains of Premature babies’

The hormone erythropoietin (EPO) could prevent brain injuries in very premature babies, a study suggests. Brain scans show EPO – used illegally by athletes to boost p...

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Environment

Global Warming Is Here, Human-Caused and Already Harmful: Leaked IPCC Report

A leaked draft of a new United Nations report on climate change says global warming has already arrived and is probably already causing harm -- and the heating trend could ...

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Health

Dash of Salt Does No Harm, Extremes Are the Enemy

For years, we have known that diets high in salt can be bad for people with high blood pressure. A study published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine confirmed...

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Environment

28 States prepare climate action plans

An analysis of state action plans to combat climate change reveal a lack of innovative approaches and a high variation in budgets apart from the fact that many did not move...

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Health

Polio eradication by vaccination: good news and bad

A clinical trial gives hope that the right vaccination scheme could eradicate polio worldwide by 2018. Another study, though, warns that mutated viruses could jeopardize th...

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