Humans Are Now Causing Species To Artificially Evolve

But man-made ecological damage doesn’t always come in the form of extinctions. Instead of succumbing to the pressures of human activity, some species are rapidly evol...

An Education Lost Is A Livelihood Gained?

Sandhya (15) (name changed), a class 10 student from Madivala, dropped out of school in September last owing to health issues. She took up work at a nearby supermarket, ear...

The Best Countries For Gender Equality May Also Have A Domestic Violence Problem

The Nordic nations are frequently held up as countries that have come as close to any in creating true gender equality. Case in point, in the World Economic Forum's 2015 Ge...

Honey Bee Extinction Will Change Life As We Know It

Biologists have been warning the agriculture industry about colony collapse disorder (CCD) for more than a decade. Between 2006 and 2007, beekeepers around the US began to ...

Bengal Has Most Cases Of Missing Children

West Bengal has the largest number of missing children in the country, the majority of them girls, the most recent data released by the Centre show. The Union Ministry of H...

Global Studies Reveal Health Financing Crisis Facing Developing Countries

Two major studies published in The Lancet reveal the health financing crisis facing developing countries as a result of low domestic investment and stagnating international...

Dharavi Girls Develop Apps For Education, Recycling & Women's Safety

In Dharavi, it’s the teenage girls who are driving change through science and technology, by developing apps to keep women safe, to get water, and for education. It a...

Retroscope - No Ordinary Mother

The doorbell rang this afternoon- an odd time for it to ring. I was not expecting guests. I opened to find Nazma standing outside.

"You never call me these days!" S...

Domestic Help Starts School For 60 Kids From Slums In Ranchi

Suchita’s mother met with an accident a few months ago, because of which she had to take up odd jobs to support her family. In January this year, she started a makesh...