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Urgent need to remove social stigma associated with Assisted Reproductive
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], 25 July (ANI): Infertility is on the rise among Indians with 10 to 14% of the population affected by it. The main addition has been the group of career-oriented women who delay childbearing and try for a baby later as compared to women in previous generations.
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To maintain 100 new 'smart' cities, India must rethink on infras
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 22 (ANI): India's plans to create 100 new 'smart cities' to support its rapidly growing urban population could hurt the environment unless greater emphasis is placed on providing new supporting infrastructure and utilities, according to a major new
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Home Credit launches online Mini Cash Loan to help customers instantly
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI-NewsVoir): Expanding access to credit for technology savvy and mobile population and bringing a transformation in the small ticket size personal loan market, Home Credit India Finance Pvt. Ltd., one of India's fastest growing non-banking financial company
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Indian population, carrier of hepatitis B: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): Viral hepatitis is inflammation and damage of the liver by viruses , most commonly hepatotrophic (predominantly with an affinity for attacking the liver - Hepatitis A , B , C , D , E ) or non hepatotrophic viruses (Generalized involvement of human body with
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Rice cultivation - A way of life in India's northeast
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kohima (Nagaland) [India], July 14 (ANI): India's Northeast is mostly based on an agrarian economy with more than 70 percent of the population engaged in the agriculture sector.
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China encouraging majority Han population to migrate to minority Muslim-re
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], July 13 (ANI): Often there have been questions about China's mistreatment of its minorities, whether on the plight of the Tibetans or rising tensions between the Chinese state and the Uighurs of Xinjiang.
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Nadda launches new family planning initiative on World Population Day
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 11 (ANI): Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J.P. Nadda on Tuesday launched a new family planning initiative on the World Population Day at an event organised by the Jansankhya Sthirita Kosh (JSK).
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Poor sleep and Alzheimer's: Are they linked?
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], July 8 (ANI): Statistics suggest 45% of the world's population doesn't get enough sleep.
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Rising ocean levels could lead to 2 bn refugees by 2100
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 27 (ANI): Climate change is causing sea level rise around the world. According to a recent study, in the year 2100, two billion people - about one-fifth of the world's population - could become climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels.
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World Drug Report 2017: 29.5 million people globally suffer from drug use
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Vienna[Austria]/New York[U.S.A.]/Geneva [Switzerland], June 22 (ANI): In 2015 about a quarter of a billion people used drugs. Of these, around 29.5 million people - or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population - were engaged in problematic use and suffered from drug use disorders, includin
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'Forced' conversions resulting in mass exodus of Hindus from Pak
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): The population of Hindus in Pakistan has declined drastically from about 23 per cent in 1947 to only 6 per cent now due to forced conversions, oppression and suppression in the Islamic nation the Nation reported
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'Mamata filing FIR against entire Darjeeling': BJP calls for pro
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] June 20, (ANI): Training guns on Mamata Banerjee over the growing Darjeeling unrest, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said that the West Bengal Chief Minister was 'filing an FIR against the entire population of the state'.
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