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Amitabh Bachchan to take part in AP Government’s campaign on health

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan would take part in an awareness campaign of Andhra Pradesh Government on health issues like maternal and child mortality. “The Pri...

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Global Sustainable Development Goals need clearer, more measurable targets, according to new report

The proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a universal set of goals to guide international development to 2030 – will struggle to achieve their stat...

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Classic films of India in time capsule

India is the largest producer of films in the world but many classics that are milestones in the history of Indian cinema are in danger of extinction. The newly established...

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WISH joins Gates Foundation to highlight maternal care as global priority

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative of Qatar Foundation announced, a joint effort with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to release a report ...

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Geoengineering is an insane way to deal with climate change. Let’s consider it anyway.

Geoengineering — the idea of deliberately fiddling with the Earth’s climate to reduce global warming — has long been seen as an insane, preposterous, mad-...

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215 million indians have zero assets

As PM Modi makes it clear that “inclusion” is the new emerging political mantra in the country, a new report estimates that 215 million Indians are excluded fro...

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How Data Can Improve the Impact of Stories

‘Our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose. Any good story, any good novel, should have a message’, wrote Chinua Achebe, the ...

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The false vaccine debate shows we’re in a golden age of believing whatever we want

As Georgia becomes the latest US state to report a case of measles, many across the land are shaking their heads in disbelief. How can otherwise intelligent, well-intention...

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Climate change pushes India's poorest children into slavery - Satyarthi

Disasters resulting from climate change are pushing poor Indian families into poverty so deep that they are lured by traffickers into selling their children into bonded lab...

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Injectable polio vaccine to be introduced from October

India will introduce injectable polio vaccine in its universal immunisation programme from October. This is a part of the World health Organisation’s polio endgame st...

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