MGNREGA: Today and tomorrow

The programme can provide a safety net for the poor, not just in COVID-19 times, but for times to come

Chickens from intensive farms worries urban India, shows recent consumer research

In intensive farming, chickens are raised with gained weight, painful lameness, skin lesions, leg fractures, lung problems, bone problems and …

Odisha’s tribal heartland fights COVID injustices with writings on the wall

Locals in remote villages have written on walls of their houses, urging government to address the digital divide highlighted by COVID-19

Declining antibodies and immunity to COVID-19: Why the worry?

The declining antibody levels in COVID-19 cases suggest that cells that produce these antibodies are not present in sufficient numbers

All tuberculosis patients to be screened for COVID-19

Studies show up to 4.47% of COVID-19 patients have prevalence of tuberculosis  

COVID-19: 66% of children unable to get remote learning are from south Asia, Africa, says UNICEF

Voicing concerns over the limited reach of remote learning exacerbated with regional inequalities, UNICEF urges countries to prioritise the safe-…

Africa eradicates polio, but vaccine-driven outbreaks rise

In Asia, India too was declared polio-free in 2014, but cVDPV was reported 50 times in the country in the past six years

Coronavirus update: Finance minister Sitharaman falls back on 'act of god'

 Sitharaman says there may an economic contraction ahead due to ‘extraordinary situation’

कोविड-19: इस बार लीपापोती से काम नहीं चलेगा

भारत अपनी जीडीपी का 1.28 प्रतिशत सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य सेवा…

COVID-19 warriors: How a woman in a tribal village shared vegetables from her kitchen garden

Krishna Mawasi, who lives in Kailhora village in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh, claims to have helped the hungry and destitute during the lockdown

टीबी रोगियों को ज्यादा है कोरोना से खतरा, स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय ने कहा सभी मरीजों की होने चाहिए जांच

जनवरी से जून 2020 के बीच टीबी के 26 फीसदी कम मामले सामने आए है�…

Coronavirus update: Has India got its first COVID-19 reinfection case

Doctors at Ahmedabad private hospital claim 54-year-old woman has retested positive for COVID-19

Why Cuban doctors deserve the Nobel Peace Prize

Cuban medical workers are risking their health to break the chain of COVID-19 infection. They have also developed drugs to help fight the disease

Nigerian university students find online learning painful: Here’s why

Challenges mentioned by students included higher data consumption, distractions from the neighborhood, friends and relatives, erratic power …

GDP loss due to COVID-19 will lead to higher mortality

As economies take a tumble in states, expect a toll bigger than the pandemic itself

Coronavirus update: Stage 2 human clinical trials for Oxford vaccine begin

India reported 60,975 new cases of COVID-19 and 848 deaths in the last 24 hours

COVID-19: What serosurveys suggest and what they hide

We know the results of serosurveys in five Indian cities now, the most recent being that of Pune, where more than half the sample size surveyed …

Post-COVID-19: Govt has opportunity to build eco-institutionalism

Long-term planning needs standardising data to monitor environment, institutionalising climate-risk assessment

पौधों में संक्रमण का पता लगाने के लिए वैज्ञानिकों ने बनाई चिप

शोध समूह ने हथेली के आकार के डायग्नोस्टिक डिवाइस पर चार �…

Coronavirus update: India crosses 3 mln COVID-19 cases

The United States’ Food and Drug Administration announces the emergency approval of convalescent blood plasma to treat COVID-19

‘Passionate strategy needed to mitigate malnutrition due to lockdown’

Down To Earth talks to experts, William Joe and SV Subramanian, about the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on child malnutrition