HIV infection due to unsafe medical injections may have fallen by almost 90% worldwide in decade after 2000

The number of HIV infections in low- and middle-income acquired due to unsafe medical injections by 87% between 2000 and 2010, investigators report in PLOS One. The authors...

India to adopt uniform licensing for gas, oil exploration

Policy proposed to bring uniformity in contractual provisions for exploration and production of all types of hydrocarbon resources, says minister at ongoing World Petroleum...

Can Social Accountability Help Ensure Rights and Better Participation in Maternal Health Services?

Over the last two decades, social accountability has emerged as a strategy to make health services more responsive to community needs. It’s an approach that creates a...

India leads the way in combating climate change: Survey

India is leading the way in efforts to combat the challenges of global warming while skeptical Americans still question climate change, according to a new global survey by ...

United Technologies and SOS Children’s Villages announce ‘Project Vidya’ Initiative to support education of 800 children in SOS Villages across 9 cities in India

United Technologies and SOS Children’s Villages announce ‘Project Vidya’

Initiative to support education of 800children in SOS Villages across 9 c...

Katy Perry And Staples Make Roar Happen For Teachers

Staples, Inc. is teaming up with global pop music superstar Katy Perry to “Make Roar Happen” and celebrates and support teachers during the back-to-school seaso...

Free check up for Foot and Mouth Disease in Punjab

The Punjab government on Monday instructed Animal Husbandry Department to provide free vaccination to check the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the state and as...

In Kerala, farmers fight to preserve world’s only variety of salt-resistant rice – and the ecosystem

Mridula Chari and Harsha Vadlamani search for clouds along the west coast, they meet farmers who are attempting to return to a traditional system of alternating paddy and s...

Sustainable energy through biomass

Biomass fuels come from things that once lived, such as wood products, dried vegetation, crop residues, aquatic plants and even garbage India’s energy demand is on th...