These Kids In India Are Saving Others From A Life Of Child Slavery.

In Assam, India, 12-year-old Sahidul Ali returned from school with a big grin on his face and headed straight to the office of Universal Team for Social Action and Help (UT...

Global Health Funding Becoming Scarce: Study

People wasting away from AIDS or succumbing to malaria may become an increasingly common sight within the next 25 years, as funding for universal health care shrivels up. Read More

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...

Without Universal Health Coverage, World Health Day Means Little To Most Of India

How far will you go to save your child or parents? To poverty and beyond, is what many thousand Indians are doing each day. The draft National Health Policy 2015 mentioned ...

Rotavirus Vaccine Launched Under Immunisation Drive

The health ministry on Saturday launched the rotavirus vaccine as part of its universal immunisationprogramme to prevent diarrhoeal deaths due to the virus which claims liv...

Punjab Financial Inclusion Of Women In Five Charts

One billion women – more than 40% of the women around the world – don’t have access to formal financial services, according to Global Findex.
The gen...

Empty Promises And Dead Children

Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy events, celeb...

Democracy's Dirty Word

- Is politics overtaking India's inherent humanism?

Why have we become so intolerant of the term "intolerance"? Crisscr...

Hyderabad Man Travels Across India For A ‘World Without Borders’

Wearing a long leather jacket and a headscarf which gave the impression of popular revolutionary Che Guevara, Mohammad Akram Firoze was busy in the last-minute preparations...