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2024 May Witness More Natural Disasters

'The Weather Channel argues that India faces the gravest challenge: Climate change-induced health vulnerability.' 'This is an issue often neglected, alerts Claude Arpi: "Prolonged summers,......

Sikh professor attacked in suspected hate crime in NYC

A Sikh professor at Columbia University was allegedly attacked by a group of men, who called him "Osama" and "terrorist", in an assault which police are investigating as a hate crime. School of......

India a hot spot of 'emerging diseases'

India, China, and sub-Saharan Africa are the regions where incidences of the emerging deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS and SARS have increased the most, while Europe and North and South America are......

Will newspapers survive COVID-19?

'Here is hoping that the entirely unintended and unforeseen victims of the coronavirus, the printed papers, emerge safe and unscathed from the affliction,' says Shreekant Sambrani.Illustration:......

Rajiv Ramakrishnan on UN panel

Rajiv Ramakrishnan, an undergraduate at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been doing his bit to help the United Nations achieve its Millennium Development Goals for the advancement......

Yuan can be an alternative to US dollar: ADB

The Chinese yuan has the potential to be an alternative to the US dollar and help create a multi-currency global reserve system, says an Asian Development Bank report. A joint report by the ADB......

Global crisis: Indian overseas investments hit

On an overseas acquisition spree over the past few years, Indian companies, have suddenly become wary of making investments in foreign companies as a result of the current global economic crisis, a......

India, China need more stimulus: Economist

Emerging economies like India and China are set to bounce back in the second-half of 2009, but they will have to take up right policies and stimulus packages, noted economist Jeffrey Sachs said on......

Happiness index: India ranks 117, below Pakistan!

The report highlights four supports for well-being and their underlying neural bases. Image: A view of Zurich, Switzerland. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters India has not fared well in a global......

Your heart attack hits the nation's economy

Experts are fast realising that mid-life death and disability caused by cardiovascular diseases -- CVDs -- have disastrous consequences on families who lose wage earners, resulting in loss in......

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2024 May Witness More Natural Disasters

Sikh professor attacked in suspected hate crime in NYC

India a hot spot of 'emerging diseases'

Will newspapers survive COVID-19?

Rajiv Ramakrishnan on UN panel

Yuan can be an alternative to US dollar: ADB

Global crisis: Indian overseas investments hit

India, China need more stimulus: Economist

Happiness index: India ranks 117, below Pakistan!

Your heart attack hits the nation's economy

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