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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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Sustainable development goals face $2.5 trillion funding shortfall

UN report says climate, poverty and health targets will require huge cash injection from private sector The UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) will fail unless go...

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Sustainable development goals face $2.5 trillion funding shortfall

UN report says climate, poverty and health targets will require huge cash injection from private sector The UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) will fail unless go...

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Senior citizens need vaccination, say doctors

In elderly with pneumococcal bacteraemia (blood infected with bacteria), the death rate is high, according to CDC surveillance. Another city-based pulmonologist Anil Kancherla...

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India counts human and economic cost of late monsoon

Record temperatures have left many Indians suffering, causing scientists to explore possible climate link Meteorological researchers in India suspect that climate change is a ...

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India world No 2 in global fish production

The Government is planning to develop a policy for aquaculture growth in the country, Union minister for Agriculture Radha Mohan Singh said here today. Addressing after inaugu...

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No toilets for girls in one-fifth of India?s schools, enrolment on decline

Dip in number of schools providing midday meals to their students “About 20 per cent schools in India still lack toilet facilities for girls,” says a report recen...

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FESTIVALS: STORIES THAT AWAKEN THE WORLD

A masterclass on Conscious Storytelling at WIFF Mumbai 2025 explored how cinema can elev...

October 28 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: A STITCH OF KINDNESS

Ajay Govind’s Basanti Tailors, produced by Drishyam Films in association with the ...

October 27 2025

THOUGHT FACTORY: 30 YEARS OF DDLJ & STILL RUNNING

From Eurorail to Sarson Ke Khet: An Ethnography of DDLJ’s Everlasting Romance with...

October 26 2025