Only 37% Of Over 10,000 Pay-To-Use Toilets In Mumbai Are For Women’

Few things in life are as compelling as a full bladder. Last month, it made 22-year-old Laxmi Pandit plead, bargain and fight with the hard-nosed attendant of a toilet near...

Government Brings 376 Drugs Under New List Of Essential Medicines

The Health Ministry has drawn up the revised National List of Essential Medicines which has seen the number of medicines go up to 376 from 348 in the earlier list prepared ...

Bring On The Girls

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a publishing sensation and made legit the dysfunctional ‘girl’.

Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, The Girl On The T...

Jennie Garth Helps Raise Awareness Of Childhood Hunger

Feeding America has launched new public service advertisements (PSAs) starring celebrity actress Jennie Garth to bring attention to childhood hunger. Feeding America, the n...

The World?? Most Underestimated Disease

The dirt roads are dusty in the summer and a quagmire when it starts to rain. The gutters, few and far between, fill up quickly with milky, putrid water. Khayelitsha, the s...

Mumbai Is In For A Pollution Scare Like Delhi

As panic over the levels of pollution in Delhi escalated, residents of most other Indians city probably heaved and sigh of relief thinking, “Thank God, we don’t...

Usage Of Tabs Revolutionises Health Services In Bangladesh

Forty-six-year old Jesmine Akhter had never used a computer until last month when she received a tab to enter data she collects in her village.She is a family welfare assis...

Power Of Nutrition: The $1 Billion Startup

Nutrition has a color. Alethea Dopart had brand colors on her mind — “you usually see greens, yellows, sometimes orange” — as she guided me through ...

Poverty, Mother's Health Behind Child Malnutrition In India

Boston:??Short Maternal Stature, Extreme Poverty, Poor Dietary Diversity And Mother's Lack Of Education Are Among The Top Five Risk Factors For Malnutrition In Children In ...