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Improving health care, CONGRATULATIONS! INOCULATIONS!

The World Health Organization gives China a glowing report for its lowering of infant and maternal mortality rates FANS of the China model frequently say that, for all the dis...

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India can increase GDP by more than a quarter by giving more women jobs

The rate of India’s female graduates entering the workforce is lower than the rate of illiterate women finding a job. India ranks the second lowest in the Group of 20 ec...

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Key High-Risk HIV Groups Threaten AIDS Progress, Warns The WHO

Five key groups, including gay men, prostitutes and prisoners, have stubbornly high rates of HIV that are threatening progress in the global AIDS battle, the World Health Orga...

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Wheels of pollution

No one is tracking the substantial amount of lead that escapes into the environment from car tyres THE CAMPAIGN against lead-based products has failed to target one of the big...

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Global agreement on climate change linked to availability of financing through Green Climate Fund: Prakash Javadekar

At the meeting of the Major Economies Forum currently underway in Paris, Environment Minister PrakashJavadekar has made it clear that a robust global agreement on climate chan...

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A Delhi resident consumes 12 times more electricity than one in Bihar

Data released last month by the National Sample Survey Organisation reveals patterns of electricity consumption across the country. Electrification in rural India has increase...

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Combining vaccines may help eradicate polio

Combining two types of polio vaccine, including one that is injected rather than given orally, appears to give better immunity and could speed efforts to eradicate the crippli...

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Big data’s biggest challenge: climate change

Researchers are using big data technology to model, interpret, and illustrate the predicted environmental effects of climate change. Global sea levels are about eight inches h...

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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 cl...

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Debunking dangerous myths about vaccines

Measles is making a comeback, with a 20-year high in reported infections, due mostly to folks who are opting out of the vaccination, according to the Centers for Disease Contr...

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TWO POWERFUL THEATRE REFLECTIONS

Sohaila Kapur reflects on two compelling theatre experiences — the experimental st...

May 13 2026

THE STING BEHIND BOLLYWOOD PAPARAZZI

Khalid Mohamed, without being judgmental, reports on the love-hate relationship of the c...

May 12 2026

MAHOGATHA REVIVES MAHASHWETA DEVI’S LEGACY

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews Mahogatha, a powerful Marathi theatrical adaptation of thr...

May 11 2026