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  Swachh Bharat Mission's toilets helped avert 70,000 infant deaths per year: Study

  India | September 05, 2024 22:50 IST

  As per researchers, the findings fall in line with evidence from global and South Asian contexts, with multiple studies, indicating that improved sanitation can potentially cut child mortality rates by 5-30 per cent.

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  India unlikely to meet infant mortality rate target of 2015:UNICEF

  India | December 21, 2014 11:40 IST

  Kolkata: Going by the current pace of decline, India is unlikely to achieve its target of reducing the infant mortality rate to less than 39 per 1,000 live births by 2015-end, said a senior UNICEF

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  Sex ratio at birth in Delhi increases

  India | August 22, 2014 20:10 IST

  New Delhi: The sex ratio at birth in the national capital has increased from 886 females per 1000 males in 2012 to 895 in 2013, according to Delhi goverment's annual report on registration of births

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  A maternal death every 10 min in India, likely to miss MDG says UN

  India | July 02, 2012 18:36 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 2: India is likely to miss the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) related to maternal health as one maternal death is being reported every 10 minutes in the country now.India recorded around 57,000

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  Couple detained after two days old premature twins die

  India | June 23, 2012 20:02 IST

  Udhagamandalam (Tamil Nadu),  Jun 23 : A childless couple from nearby Wellington, have been detained for questioning in connection with the death of two-day old twins whom they allegedly got from a woman at the