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  Bengal to launch helpline for transgenders

  India | July 12, 2015 7:32 IST

  Kolkata: The West Bengal government is planning to launch a helpline and start sex reassignment surgery (SRS) facilities in state-run hospitals for transgenders, a member of the State's Transgender Development Board said on July 11.The maiden

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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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  Won't allow Sri Ram Sene to work in Goa: Manohar Parrikar

  Politics | August 12, 2014 16:31 IST

  Panaji: In a shift from Goa government's earlier stand, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today said he would not allow the controversial right wing outfit Sri Ram Sene to work in the state.“Sri Ram Sene is