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Watch: Paragliding Gone Wrong, Two People Stuck On An Electric Pole In Kerala
Two people who were paragliding at Papanasham Beach in Varkala, a rural area of Thiruvananthapuram, were stuck in a pole after their parachute became tangled with it.
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Indian Researchers Develop Raspberry Pi-Based Portable Blood Test Device to Improve Rural Healthcare
Nagpur-based researchers have developed a small, affordable blood test device that can be easily transported to rural areas and improve access to healthcare.
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COVID-19 Rapidly Spreading In Rural Areas: PM Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned against the spread of Coronavirus in rural areas and urged people take precautions.
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"A Hell Out Here": COVID-19 Ravages Rural India
India's coronavirus death count crossed 2,50,000 on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, leaving families to weep over the dead in rural hospitals or camp in wards to tend the
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Australia Plans To Settle Migrants In Rural Areas To Ease Congestion
Australia is drawing up plans to require migrants to temporarily settle in regional and rural areas to ease congestion in major cities, the government announced Tuesday.
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Urban Voters Still With BJP, Rural Gujarat Behind Congress
Though people turned up in large numbers to attend Patidar leader Hardik Patel's anti-BJP rallies in the cities of Gujarat, they ended up voting for the saffron party, which won nearly one-third of their total of 99 seats from eight major cities in the state.
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Nurses Are Our Best Bet To Provide Healthcare In Rural India
Lasiyo is two years old and lives in Khajuri- a remote, sparsely populated and poorly connected tribal hamlet in Rajasthan. Last year in September, his mother noticed that Lasiyo had high fever. The closest functional health facility was in a nearby town, but she had never been there alone. The only bus that would take here there had left. Her husb...
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Doctors Reluctant To Work In Rural Himachal Pradesh, Says Virbhadra Singh
Shimla: Expressing concern over vacant posts of medical staff in Himachal Pradesh’s rural and remote primary and community health centres, chief minister Virbhadra Singh on Monday said that doctors and para-medical personnel are unwilling to serve there. With increasing number of doctors and medical staff pushing for transfers in urban areas, Mr ...
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Fluorosis: A Vicious Disease, But There Is Hope
With dreams in her eyes, Kali Bai married Tol Singh from Jhabua in Madya Pradesh and happily entered village Miyati ten years ago. That happiness did not last long as she soon fell ill. The presence of fluoride in the village’s water made her weak every passing day. Her bones became a tangled mass and looked as if they would collapse any moment. ...
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Demonetisation: Supreme Court Asks Centre To Spell Out Steps To Ease Inconvenience
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to spell out measures taken to ease the sufferings and inconvenience of people in rural areas, who are mostly dependent on co-operative banks, post-demonetisation.
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Pensioners Bear Brunt Of Demonetisation, Wait Hours To Exchange Notes
As the government doles out social security scheme pension to the elderly people on the 15th of every month, pensioners had to bear the brunt of the centre's demonetisation move in various rural pockets of Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur districts.
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Fighting Pollution: What Delhi Needs to do, Short and Long Term
Way back in 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had famously and inextricably linked poverty and environmental pollution at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm.
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'India's Internet Users To Grow Over 2-Fold To 730 Million by 2020': Report
Buoyed by Internet penetration in rural areas, the number of web users in India will see a two-fold rise at 730 million by 2020 against 350 million at the end of 2015, a latest report said today.
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Over 57,400 Schemes To Provide Drinking Water In Rural Areas
Over 57,400 schemes are going on in different states to provide drinking water to the rural population and over Rs 4,300 crore utilised for the purpose in 2015-16, the government said today.
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Only 10-20 Per Cent Rural Indian Women Aware About Cervical Cancer
Only 10-20 per cent of the Indian women in rural areas have awareness about cervical cancer, even if it is the fourth most common cause of death among women, said a survey. According to the survey, an estimated 62,416 cervical cancer deaths were reported across the world in 2015, which is the eight per cent of the total deaths caused by cancers alt...
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Watch: Paragliding Gone Wrong, Two People Stuck On An Electric Pole In Kerala
Two people who were paragliding at Papanasham Beach in Varkala, a rural area of Thiruvananthapuram, were stuck in a pole after their parachute became tangled with it.
-
Indian Researchers Develop Raspberry Pi-Based Portable Blood Test Device to Improve Rural Healthcare
Nagpur-based researchers have developed a small, affordable blood test device that can be easily transported to rural areas and improve access to healthcare.
-
COVID-19 Rapidly Spreading In Rural Areas: PM Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned against the spread of Coronavirus in rural areas and urged people take precautions.
-
"A Hell Out Here": COVID-19 Ravages Rural India
India's coronavirus death count crossed 2,50,000 on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, leaving families to weep over the dead in rural hospitals or camp in wards to tend the
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Australia Plans To Settle Migrants In Rural Areas To Ease Congestion
Australia is drawing up plans to require migrants to temporarily settle in regional and rural areas to ease congestion in major cities, the government announced Tuesday.
-
Urban Voters Still With BJP, Rural Gujarat Behind Congress
Though people turned up in large numbers to attend Patidar leader Hardik Patel's anti-BJP rallies in the cities of Gujarat, they ended up voting for the saffron party, which won nearly one-third of their total of 99 seats from eight major cities in the state.
-
Nurses Are Our Best Bet To Provide Healthcare In Rural India
Lasiyo is two years old and lives in Khajuri- a remote, sparsely populated and poorly connected tribal hamlet in Rajasthan. Last year in September, his mother noticed that Lasiyo had high fever. The closest functional health facility was in a nearby town, but she had never been there alone. The only bus that would take here there had left. Her husb...
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Doctors Reluctant To Work In Rural Himachal Pradesh, Says Virbhadra Singh
Shimla: Expressing concern over vacant posts of medical staff in Himachal Pradesh’s rural and remote primary and community health centres, chief minister Virbhadra Singh on Monday said that doctors and para-medical personnel are unwilling to serve there. With increasing number of doctors and medical staff pushing for transfers in urban areas, Mr ...
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Fluorosis: A Vicious Disease, But There Is Hope
With dreams in her eyes, Kali Bai married Tol Singh from Jhabua in Madya Pradesh and happily entered village Miyati ten years ago. That happiness did not last long as she soon fell ill. The presence of fluoride in the village’s water made her weak every passing day. Her bones became a tangled mass and looked as if they would collapse any moment. ...
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Demonetisation: Supreme Court Asks Centre To Spell Out Steps To Ease Inconvenience
The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to spell out measures taken to ease the sufferings and inconvenience of people in rural areas, who are mostly dependent on co-operative banks, post-demonetisation.
-
Pensioners Bear Brunt Of Demonetisation, Wait Hours To Exchange Notes
As the government doles out social security scheme pension to the elderly people on the 15th of every month, pensioners had to bear the brunt of the centre's demonetisation move in various rural pockets of Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur districts.
-
Fighting Pollution: What Delhi Needs to do, Short and Long Term
Way back in 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had famously and inextricably linked poverty and environmental pollution at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm.
-
'India's Internet Users To Grow Over 2-Fold To 730 Million by 2020': Report
Buoyed by Internet penetration in rural areas, the number of web users in India will see a two-fold rise at 730 million by 2020 against 350 million at the end of 2015, a latest report said today.
-
Over 57,400 Schemes To Provide Drinking Water In Rural Areas
Over 57,400 schemes are going on in different states to provide drinking water to the rural population and over Rs 4,300 crore utilised for the purpose in 2015-16, the government said today.
-
Only 10-20 Per Cent Rural Indian Women Aware About Cervical Cancer
Only 10-20 per cent of the Indian women in rural areas have awareness about cervical cancer, even if it is the fourth most common cause of death among women, said a survey. According to the survey, an estimated 62,416 cervical cancer deaths were reported across the world in 2015, which is the eight per cent of the total deaths caused by cancers alt...
