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India Will Miss MDG Target On Maternal Mortality: CBHI Report?

India will miss its Millenium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing maternal mortality rate to 109 per 1,00,000 live births, according to National Health Profile-2015, whi...

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A Total Of $2.6 Trillion Is Now Being Divested From Fossil Fuels

?One year ago today we announced that the total was $52 billion, and committed to tripling that figure,? said Ellen Dorsey, the executive director of Wallace Global Fund, who ...

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Indian Healthcare To Touch $280 Bn By 2020, To Create 7.4 Million Jobs.

India’s healthcare industry, which is estimated to grow by at least 16 per cent from $73.92 billion in 2011 to $280 billion in 2020, will see its workforce demand doubli...

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Gender Affects Awarding Of Research Funding

Women are still underrepresented in top academic positions. One of the possible explanations for this is the increasing importance of obtaining research funding. Women are oft...

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How Mobile Phones Are Enabling Quality Maternal And Child Healthcare

In 1996, Aparna Hegde was a resident doctor at Sion Hospital, one of Mumbai?s largest public health facilities, when a woman who had just delivered a baby was rushed into emer...

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A Massive Amount Of Death Is Plaguing The World's Oceans

Based on a study of 5,829 populations of 1,234 mammal, bird, reptile, and fish species in the world’s oceans, the WWF found a decline of 49 percent between 1970 and 2012...

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A Massive Amount Of Death Is Plaguing The World's Oceans

Based on a study of 5,829 populations of 1,234 mammal, bird, reptile, and fish species in the world's oceans, the WWF found a decline of 49 percent between 1970 and 2012. Fish...

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Tech As A Tool Of Social Change

Disruptive technologies like the Internet of Things and Big Data are also expected to continue to expand and become part of our everyday lives, says B.V.R. Mohan Reddy   ...

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Gender Inequality In The Workplace Is Men’s Work Too

If you are a man in the workplace in 2015, you are probably disturbed by what you read about the second-class status of women in many businesses, and even more troubled by wha...

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Why Young Women All Over The World Are Still Dying In Childbirth

By the time the pregnant 17 years old arrives at a hospital in Sierra Leone, it is already too late. Her baby has died—maybe the day before, maybe even longer. She has b...

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TV: A JOURNEY THROUGH GOD’S OWN COUNTRY

Part 2 of Surabhi Diaries by filmmaker Suhail Tatari continues his vivid recollections f...

November 10 2025

BOLLYWOOD: HAQ AND THE PRICE OF A WOMAN’S VOICE

In 1978, Shah Bano, an elderly Muslim woman from Indore, filed a petition seeking mainte...

November 9 2025

FESTIVALS: THE POWER OF CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

At WIFF Mumbai 2025, a dynamic masterclass in collaboration with the Indo-Canadian Busin...

November 8 2025