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India slashes health budget, already one of the world's lowest
The Indian government has ordered a cut of nearly 20% in its 2014/15 healthcare budget due to fiscal strains, putting at risk key disease control initiatives in a country whose public spendin…
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Bangladesh: Looking back at how a nation was born, 43 years ago on this day
Time has dimmed memory and caught as we are in the hurly-burly of here and now, the events of December 1971 when the map of the Indian sub-continent was redrawn, are all but forgotten. But…
West Bengal
Indira Gandhi was not aware of Emergency provisions, says President Pranab Mukherjee
The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was not aware of the Constitutional provisions allowing for declaration of Emergency that was imposed in 1975 and it was Siddartha Shankar Ray who led he…
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Shakepeare, Dylan Thomas to be focus points of Kolkata Book Fair in 2015
With Great Britain as the focal theme country, the upcoming Kolkata book fair is set to bring alive works of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare and Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. …
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Developing close relations with neighbours top priority, says PM Narendra Modi
Ahead of his Nepal visit to attend the SAARC Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said development of close relations with neighbours was a key priority for his government a…
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Parents failing slow learners, study finds
Survey conducted by the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, finds parentsresort to at least 75 forms of psychological coercion tactics to get their children toimprove . Researchers sa…
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Tata Nano launched in Bangladesh
iSuggi - Tata Nano The much-publicised Tata Nano launched by the Indian automaker, Tata Motors, has driven its way into the Bangladesh market. Tata Nano’s launch in Bangladesh was delayed b…
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