A Market For Mental Health Insurance?

The Mental Healthcare Act mandates insurance providers to cover mental illnesses. This will boost mental health literacy and fight stigmatization Mental health is a subject...

24-Year-Old's Suicide Is A Warning That The Mental Healthcare Bill Needs To Expand Its Scope

The provision that decriminalises suicide in the Mental Health Bill is welcome, however, the absence of a complementary provision requiring educational institutions and emp...

Aimed To Improve Muslim Education, NCPCR Engages With Madarsas

A series of consultations initiated by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has initiated a massive exercise of introspection on the state of Musl...

There's Poison In The Air

Nearly a third of Indian cities have breached annual pollution limits mandated by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) between 2011 and 2015, according to figures fro...

Delhi’s Going Seriously Green With Their New Plastic Ban

The National Green Tribunal of New Delhi has banned the use of disposable plastic in Delhi and NCR, which should come as a silver lining as reports of Delhi’s sickeni...

A Catastrophic Amount of Carbon Could Leak From the Soil By 2050

The term “snowball effect” is an unfortunate way to describe climate change, but a new study is predicting just that.

Climate scientists war...

New Law To Make 26 Week Maternity Compulsory In Private Sector

This has to be the less debated reform from the government, luckily. Henceforth working women in private sector may soon be entitled to 26-week maternity leave under the ne...

UN Makes History On Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

The United Nations Human Rights Council, in a defining vote, adopted a resolution on June 30, 2016, on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual...

Gender- Dasra Report: Non-Profits In India Fail To Address The Gender Gap

The Companies Act 2013 mandated that a publicly listed company, which has five or more directors, must have at least one woman director. Even when surveys show that compani...