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Budget 2005-2006: the missing audit

Gender inequities worsen impact of cancer in women, finds Lancet Commission

Discrimination affects their rights and opportunities to avoid risk factors, ability to get timely diagnosis & quality care

Forest officials have subverted premier research body for personal benefit: CAG

Indian Forest Service officials are occupying top posts meant for scientists in Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education; audit report …

Drying wetlands

Ladakh's high altitude wetlands are under severe stress from the livestock population as well as tourist influx

Call of the wild

A unique festival epitomises efforts for conservation of Assam rainforests which have been lying in a state of neglect for decades

How South Africa can address digital inequalities in e-learning

In the wake of South Africa’s first COVID-19 cases, several educational sites are now zero-rated or free to use

Too little in environment ministry's kitty

Reduction in ministry's budget by almost half expected to hit forestry research the most

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Born again

Bapu's homecoming

Practical Spiritualism

Urban areas can support biodiversity

Finding space in our city for nature

Water business

Can COVID-19 pandemic help India foster rural livelihoods and build resilient villages?

The shift of balance created by COVID-19 has revealed that urban centres, while important, need not be the sole creator of jobs or economic …

Stillborn in Africa: UN pegs number at a million every year

Situation has worsened in 2 decades, may slip further due to COVID-19 pandemic, warns Unicef report

Topping the wrong chart: India has highest number of stillbirths

India recorded 0.34 million stillbirths in 2019; COVID-19 has disrupted health systems and added to the existing burden

Short on paramedics

Hospitals employ untrained staff due to acute shortage of qualified paramedics in the country

Beyond The Billion

If post-Independence leaders of India had ensured full literacy, a solution would have been in sight for a lot of problems. Population, for one. …

COVID-19 damaged cognitive development, lifetime earnings of an entire generation, finds Word Bank

Report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the young, children finds jeopardy to well-being of generations and growth of economies

What is in the Union Budget 2021-22 for children? Not much

The budget continues to deprive pregnant women, lactating mothers and children from vital benefits of schemes and interventions 

Alarming rise in fungal infection cases: PGIMER study

In spite of higher incidence of cases as compared to the West, India lacks infrastructure required for testing of fungal infections

The poverty quibble

Government claims a huge drop in poverty numbers but critical indicators—health, malnutrition and wages—continue to be grim. So how …

'We need to promote the culture of donating breast milk'

Armida Fernandez, founder trustee of Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action, started the first human milk bank in India in 1989 in …

Matter of life and death