Burden of birth

Maternal deaths in Bihar go unreported, while state claims maternal mortality ratio has decreased Urvi Devi, 20, was in her ninth month of pregnancy. She woke up one night ...

An Accidental Martyrdom

In April 2010, I returned home late evening to find a family friend had left urgent messages for me to call back. The next morning, before I could return her call, she was ...

6 years on, Maharashtra has no climate-change action plan

Even as rural areas in otherwise drought-hit regions of Maharashtra (as also in neighbouring areas of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) struggle to cope with imme...

True Review: Divergent

Critics Rating: 2 stars

Cast : Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Jai Courteney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Tony Goldwyn

Dir...

At long last, WHO certifies Bangladesh polio-free

Through a robust national immunization programme, Bangladesh mostly rid itself of the crippling disease in 2003. But the country reported a final case of poliomyelitis in M...

Game Of Thrones Star To Run London Marathon For Charity

Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer will be running the Virgin Money London Marathon on April 13 to raise money for Barnardo’s. “I am proud to be running the Vi...

Aaron Neville Supports Children’s Health Fund

Singer Aaron Neville is inspiring people to fundraise for the Children’s Health Fund. “Children’s Health Fund does incredible work to bring health care to...

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 ...

Governance Tips from India's Children

Manisha from Siwan:
The Price We Pay for Patriarchy

For 23 years, I was a UNICEF   official. This meant children paid my salary. Chi...