A bunch of feisty women

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Better education links to good heart health

The study explored the association between education and wealth on one hand and cardiovascular diseases and mortality due to them on the other

Why simply legalising abortion is not enough

Governments need to pay equal attention to the safety of abortions, sex education and counselling, and varied problems faced by new borns of …

Budget 2018: Need adequate investment to plug gaps in education system

Around 20 per cent teachers currently working in government schools are untrained

News Snippets

Bit of help

Comic Strip>> Conservation • Honduras

Hollowed halls of learning

Tongue-twisting in easy steps

A software package allows material in unfamiliar Indian languages to be read in 10 others

Knowledge without frontiers

Death of a king

A street play in Delhi urges people to stop poaching.

Yi triumphs over one

Learning Sanskrit on computers

A software programme project that will be a boon to those who want to learn Sanskrit is threatened by a lack of funds.

Letter of advice

Denying education to women may erode fundamental human solidarity, affecting social cohesion, says a United Nations report

Who needs schools

... when you can study through Internet?

NET WORK

From Adam to ape

God, says the Kansas State Board of Education in the US, created the world in seven says. Evolution therefore doesn't exist. A new curriculum …

Label literacy

Late click-off

Bridging the gap

Superstars lend a voice

A clean act

Getting started

Blind about Braille

It's time something was done about the lack of Braille texts in India

Website review: http://earthtrends.wri.org/

A must-bookmark site for anyone interested in environmental and development issues. It offers up-to-date facts and figures as well as analyses of …

Sorry state

First stock-taking of science in India paints a gloomy