A mobile-based rural distribution network

Ramilaben Parmar, a farm labourer in Rasnol village in Gujarat’s Anand district, is elated. She has just bought a new sewing machine worth Rs.10, 000 for her daughter...

Steve Thomas To Join Habitat For Humanity’s Home Builders Blitz

Steve Thomas, the Emmy Award-winning former host of “This Old House” and “Renovation Nation,” will join professional homebuilders and construction e...

India rising to Sustainable Energy challenge

Three very different sustainable energy projects from India are among the finalists in this year’s Ashden Awards, writes Chhavi Sharma – all of them inspiring a...

Reproductive rights and wrongs: How discrimination blights maternity care

Last week, Brazil becomes the first country to pay compensation to the family of a woman who died in childbirth as a result of negligence and discriminatory practices in ma...

Salman Khan to produce a film only for charity in 2014

Rising ticket prices hurt Salman as he wants his fans to go and see a film at a cheaper price, which is more affordable.

Even in the case of Jai Ho, his brother Soh...

REFILE-YOUR MONEY-Are drug companies using your health records to sell you stuff?

Jan 8 (Reuters) – If you went to visit your doctor and a drug company representative was sitting in the room with you, ready to hand out pamphlets and samples, you&rs...

President makes ‘symbolic’ enrollment in ObamaCare, picks least expensive plan

President Obama enrolled over the weekend for insurance under the Affordable Care Act, the White House said Monday. The president, who is vacationing in Hawaii wi...

World Innovation Summit for Health 2013: Obesity is a global public health pandemic

In an obesity report published at the summit today, experts, examined obesity related health problems in eight countries, as well as the economic and social burdens it crea...

President Obama offers apologies to Americans who have lost their health insurances as a result of the new law

In his latest public attempt to gather support for the the Affordable Health Care Act President Obama was apologetic considering that insurance companies are reportedly can...