Empowering the poor or the rural elite?

Climate change research gets Norwegian aid

Research on climate change and biodiversity in India received a boost on Tuesday with a Rs. 14-crore grant from the Norwegian Embassy to Bangalore-based Ashoka Trust for Re...

WHO presents manual for countries to eliminate malaria

On the occasion of World Malaria Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday launched a manual to help countries assess their achievements in eliminating the disease...

Delivering safety

All safe motherhood programmes of the government are focused on institutional deliveries, but health centres are in disarray. Experts suggest ways to reduce deaths during d...

Women's natural role overlooked in India

“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women,” said Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. The empowerment...

TIME 100: The People in Health You Need to Know

The 2014 TIME 100 list–the annual determination of people who influenced the world in the past year for better or worse–is here, and we highlight the leaders ma...

Curtains For Bade Achhe Lagte Hain (BALH)

“We have an expression that when a show is running out of original stories, the producers will make a “jump the shark” episode, when something completely ...

SCRIPT WRITERS & CONTENT CREATORS MEET EXPERTS ON PARENTING & MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH TO ENRICH STORYLINES.

The Third Eye, a program run by a partnership between Asian Centre for Entertainment Education (ACEE) and Hollywood Health & Society (HH&S), USC, Annenberg, is empo...

Nations must allocate more resources to end poverty: WB

Countries such as India, which accounted for nearly a third of the people living in poverty globally, needed to complement efforts to enhance growth with policies that allo...