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World Bank reports that India is facing a serious power crisis
A government bailout in 2001 was the size of Nepal’s GDP. The money it cost the exchequer to write off power sector losses in 2011 would have paid for 15,000 hospitals a...
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A Renewed Call for Child and Maternal Health
At the Saving Every Woman, Every Child summit held in Toronto, Canada last month, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group asserted, “We stand today on a crit...
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Vegetarian diets produce fewer greenhouse gases and increase longevity, say new studies
Consuming a plant-based diet results in a more sustainable environment and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, while improving longevity, according to new research from Loma Lin...
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Harsh Vardhan outlines key to reduce maternal and child deaths
Asserting that the goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths by 2035 is well within reach, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has outlined six key actions to accel...
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India’s rainfall patterns changing drastically, say Stanford scientists
Longer dry spells and wetter wet spells could spell doom for the Indian agriculture, they warn Tough times are ahead for the Indian agriculture which is highly dependent on th...
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Why women in India are farming with diverse plants – and without pesticides
In India, many women are planting more than 20 different crops on their farms with nutrition – and not money – in mind. This type of farming stems back to previous...
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Deploying midwives in poor nations could avert millions of maternal and newborn deaths
Researchers have said that a small increase in number of skilled birth attendants in the world’s poorest nations could save the lives of a substantial number of women an...
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How is Today’s Warming Different from the Past?
Earth has experienced climate change in the past without help from humanity. We know about past climates because of evidence left in tree rings, layers of ice in glaciers, oce...
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El Nino effect: Mumbai may get only 93% rainfall: Met
Authorities say the monsoon has reached the city, but the currents are weak, causing a period of inactivity; weak monsoon will, almost inevitably, lead to a rise in vegetable ...
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In Lucknow, one toilet for every 58,844 people!
Lucknow, with a population of nearly three million and the capital of India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, doesn’t have any public toilets for women and h...
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