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Severe drought in Maharashtra leads to nearly six-fold rise in migration from villages

In an indicator of the severe drought situation due to 67% deficient rainfall in the state, nearly 3.6 lakh people from Maharashtra’s villages have sought daily wage ...

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Sustainable Development

Over one lakh suicides in India every year, report says

Over 1, 00,000 people commit suicides in India every year on an average. The number of suicides in the past decade has recorded an increase of 21.6 per cent, said a governm...

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Environment

Centre warns of possible drought in western India

Delayed monsoon to impact Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan, the biggest producers of sugar cane, cotton, pulses and soybean In what could become first maj...

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Sustainable Development

These nine laws make Indian women less equal than men

A recent UN report studying India’s legal code lists all the ways laws officially support men over women. In Goa, a Hindu man can remarry if his previous wife does no...

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TV

Get On The Dance Floor

?Jhalak?s more sensuous, less dance,? was a barrage of opinions from the more conservative and traditional viewers during its first few weekends.? Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, the I...

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Bollywood

Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival (MWIFF) 2014 announces its Call for Entries

India’s largest women film festival is back with its second edition. The festival scheduled in the month of December from 6th to 13th 2014 promises to deliver a great...

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Environment

NASA to again launch global warming satellite

In 2009, NASA had launched a satellite to track carbon dioxide but it plunged into the ocean after liftoff. The space agency has now decided to launch a carbon copy of the ...

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Health

More education among women helps reduce maternal and child mortality in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a classic case of a low- and middle-income country achieving the unachievable which many others failed to. It reduced its maternal mortality by 66 per cent be...

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Health

Swine flu in India: fatalities caused by ignorance?

Doctors cite late reporting of symptoms for rising number of deaths; Bengaluru, Rajasthan, and Kerala report high number of fatalities Swine flu is back in news with one mo...

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Environment

Creating the climate for India’s low carbon growth story

Buried under the din of the changing electoral climate, India took an important step in its fight against climate change this summer. The ‘Expert Group on Low Carbon ...

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