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Sustainable Development

India’s bride markets grow, while trafficking convictions decline

The shortage of brides in some states with skewed sex ratio has made human trafficking a lucrative trade The Indian predilection for aborting or killing the female child ap...

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Health

Improving child and maternal health care in rural areas

Taking a leaf out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi?? pioneering Digital India campaign, HLFPPT has launched an innovative e-ASHA training programme in the remote Suvali bloc...

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TV

NEW YEAR, NEW CONTENT

The New Year was ushered in by most Hindi GEC channels airing entertainment, entertainment, entertainment. By 11 pm, most channels had digressed from their late night repea...

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Hollywood

‘Homeland’ Director: “What Happens to All These Women After They Direct Their First Film?”

For the past year, I have been the director/executive producer of Homeland season four on Showtime, which features one of television’s most complicated and compelling...

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Sustainable Development

Lexicon of democratic literacy

The introduction of educational qualifications as eligibility criteria for contesting panchayat elections has shocked and angered rural Rajasthan, including supporters of t...

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Health

Maternal Supplementation Prevents Preterm Births

Maternal micronutrient supplementation is able to reduce preterm births and low birth weights, according to a study involving over 44,000 Bangladeshi pregnancies. Asian Sci...

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Thought Factory

Why is the World aiming for Sustainability?

To decide the narrative for this article has been quite a task. There are so many approaches to address the issue at hand, I could have been the cynic and looked back on al...

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Sustainable Development

Vodafone supports female students at UEW

Vodafone Ghana has rolled out a sponsorship package for 10 brilliant but needy ladies pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) courses at University of Ed...

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Health

HIV patients find tough to file for pensions

Government yet to make necessary changes in the website for uploading their applications. The HIV positive people and vulnerable tribal groups have appealed to the State go...

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Sustainable Development

Women’s empowerment in UP bleak

Gender equity and the status of women remain the hand-maiden of callous politics in India’s largest state by population and 2014 has been deplorably stark. The &lsquo...

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