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How A Healthy Gut Can Be A Bulwark Against India’s Lifestyle-Disease Epidemic
Mount Abu (Rajasthan): Processed food, an overly sanitised environment and an urban lifestyle can reduce beneficial bacteria in your gut, which primes the body against India’s epidemic of lifestyle...
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Indians Depend On Political Bodies, Social Networks To Access Govt Services
Mumbai: Indians disadvantaged by class, caste or education, and thus without access to public services or government bodies, often use political institutions and social networks to get their work...
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‘Reduce Stigma To Make Women Comfortable Accessing Safe Abortions’
Indian women resort to back-alley providers because abortion continues to be stigmatised: Vinoj Manning, Ipas Development Foundation, India. New Delhi: Abortion was legalised in India almost half a...
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As India Struggles With Climate Change, Farming Couple Learns To Cope And...
.fluid-width-video-wrapper { display: inherit !important; } In an arid, poor corner of India swept by climate change, Shyamrao Patil and wife Laxmibai–both studied till class three–have found ways to...
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With 4 Years To Go, 6% Of India’s Solar Rooftop Target Installed
Chandigarh: With less than four years left to meet its target of installing 40,000 megawatt (MW) of rooftop solar power capacity by 2022, India has installed just about 2,538 MW as of March 2018, a...
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6 In 10 Indian Babies Miss Out On Early Breastfeeding And Its Life-Saving...
New Delhi: While there has been an improvement in the number of babies getting breastfed in the first hour of life in India–reflected in a rise from 23.1% in 2005 to 41.5% in 2015–the majority of...
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Govt Ad Spend Could Feed 46 Million Children Mid-Day Meals For A Year
Vehicles pass by a government of India poster around the World Hindi Conference in September, 2015. In its first 52 months in power, the National Democratic Alliance government spent Rs 4880 crore on...
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Toilet Owners Defecate In Open In Villages Declared Open-Defecation Free:...
Mumbai: With a little more than a year to go for Swachh Bharat Mission’s deadline of open-defecation-free India, patchy access to toilets, incomplete toilet construction and rampant open defecation...
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Did Aadhaar Glitches Cause Half Of 14 Recent Jharkhand Starvation Deaths?
New Delhi: On July 27, 2018, Rajendra Birhor, a 40-year-old Adivasi, starved to death in Ramgarh, a district in eastern Jharkhand. He belonged to a “particularly vulnerable tribal group” (PVTG) and...
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Forest Fires Increased 158% In 6 Years; Warming A Factor: Experts
Mumbai: Forest fires in India increased 1.5 times over six years to 35,888 incidents, according to government data submitted to Parliament on July 20, 2018. Experts believe that long dry periods,...
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Over 1,600 URLs Blocked In India Over Last 18 Months, Facebook Took Down Most
Mumbai: As many as 1,662 uniform resource locators (URLs) or posts on social media were blocked over 18 months ending June 2018, Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister for electronics and information...
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66% Working Indians Earn Less Because Of Childhood Stunting, One Of World’s...
Mumbai: Around two-thirds of the working population in India are earning 13% less because of stunting in childhood–being excessively short for their age–one of the world’s highest such reductions in...
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33% Teaching Posts Vacant, Indian University Crisis Hits Rankings, Teaching,...
Mumbai: India is one of the world’s top five economies and the country with the world’s largest working-age population–around 861 million aged between 15 and 64. These data emphasise why education...
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Why Bengaluru’s Bus System Is India’s Best And Loses Least Money
Mumbai: Bengaluru is India’s third most-populous city, but its bus system is not only India’s largest with 6,448 buses (in 2015-16), it also lost the least money (Rs 101 crore) over six years to...
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India Can Double Its Per Capita GDP In 30 Years By Turning More Secular: Study
If India discards religious beliefs that perpetuate caste and gender inequalities, it could more than double its per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth of the last 60 years in half the time,...
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As Health Crises Grow, 29% Of Funds With States Not Spent In 5 Years
MUMBAI: Even as health crises in India grew, National Health Mission (NHM) funds unspent by states over five years to 2016 increased by 29%, according to a recent audit by the government’s auditor....
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With Health Funds Unused, 24%-38% Shortfall In Medical Staff Across India
Mumbai: There is a 24%-38% shortfall in the availability of medical personnel at primary health centres, sub centres, and community health centres in 28 states/union territories of India, according...
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Karnataka’s Udupi, Kerala’s Idukki Record Highest Rainfall In 2018, Serve...
An aerial view of the flood-hit areas of Kerala on Aug 18, 2018 Mumbai: Kerala now faces the ravages of the worst monsoon floods in 94 years, with 373 dead and more than 1.2 million in relief camps...
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Central Aid For Kerala Enough To Buy 1 Rafale Fighter Jet
Bengaluru: An Indian Air Force An-32 aircraft being loaded with supplies for the flood-affected people in Kerala on August 21, 2018 Mumbai: In response to Kerala’s request for Rs 2,000 crore ($286...
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