Political Apathy, Unplanned Urbanisation Make Vector-Borne Diseases Hard To Control in India

Only 60 per cent of the total plan outlay for vector-borne diseases spent between 2007 to2013; lack of co-ordination between ministries and state agencies a major hurdle in...

Is This Our Democracy?

While watching the show Satyamev Jayate hosted by Aamir Khan, running on Sunday mornings on Star Plus, last week, I began to feel faint.

Our acceptance of a flawed ...

Non-city residents ‘contributing to high maternal mortality rates in Mumbai’

The maternal mortality rate in Mumbai is being distorted by patients from outside the city, an official has stated. According to Dr Padmaja Keskar, deputy executive health ...

Gender Equality a Precondition of Meeting Challenge of Poverty

The Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill, 2014 which created Telangana, has made the population ratio as the framework for allocation of assets and liabilities, between Telan...

Viola Davis Joins Campaign To End Childhood Hunger

Academy Award-nominated actress Viola Davis, together with The Safeway Foundation and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) today launched Hunger Is, a joint charitab...

Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner

Results from a new study co-authored by Netra Chhetri, a faculty member at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, show global warmin...

Indian scientists warn of more intense freak weather in coming days

India’s states will see more intense unpredictable freak weather in the coming days, warned climate change scientists, days after huge chunks of hail killed at least ...

A bid to link climate change to human rights

In March 2012, President Anote Tong of Kiribati, an archipelago nation in the Pacific, informed international journalists that his Cabinet has endorsed a plan to buy 6,000 ...

Government urged to promote use of solar energy

A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Sustainable Development Focus (SUDEF) in Sunyani has called on government to focus on solar energy to enable the nation benefit from ...