No toilets for girls in one-fifth of India?s schools, enrolment on decline

Dip in number of schools providing midday meals to their students

“About 20 per cent schools in India still lack toilet facilities for girls,” says a re...

For an aspiring global power, India suffers from shocking levels of malnutrition

The bad news is that India continues to lead most countries in several malnutrition and mortality indicators. The latest UN report places India’s maternal mortality a...

Cost of growth: Global natural resources depleting by 45% a year

Analysis of data by World Bank from 136 countries shows poor countries are losing natural resources fast without gaining much by way of human resource capital or gross weal...

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...

How measuring relevant KPI consistently is possible

Multiple data, evolving complexities, will force marketing community to start setting relevant KPIs and building a practice to measure them. From a world of brand track to ...

Heat wave leads to deadly ozone pollution in Delhi

Rising NOx levels and volatile gases in the air, primarily from vehicles, form the recipe for ozone Delhi has witnessed significant ozone build-up this summer, shows a late...

Marketers look beyond traditional mix as rural consumers flex muscles

With the Modi Government at the Centre, there is a buoyancy seen in the market. The expectation of ‘achche din’ extends beyond urban areas, with the rural hinte...

HIV prevalence among IDUs falling

Drugs abuse‚ however‚ still on the rise‚ say organizations HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in the country has significantly decreased after the ...

Sewage main reason for poor-quality river water

An environmental monitoring programme carried out by the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology, and Environment (KSCSTE) in five river basins across the State has re...