Women SHGs run mid-day meal schemes in Orissa schools

India needs a freedom movement against non-performing officers

NPOs should be removed if the Union government’s schemes are to bear fruits 

इंजीनियरिंग शिक्षा जैसे न हो जाएं कृषि शिक्षा के हालात!

डाउन टू अर्थ ने देश की कृषि शिक्षा की अब तक की सबसे बड़ी पड़ताल की है। इसे चार भाग में पढ़ सकते हैं

Budget 2020-21: Why it’s high time for a thorough revamp of our child budget

India's allocation for children has been remained a paltry 3.3% for some time now. Here's why we need more

एंटीबायोटिक दवाओं के बारे में जागरूकता के लिए शुरू हुआ अभियान

दुनियाभर में बैक्टीरिया की अनगिनत प्रजातियां हैं। उनमें से लाखों बैक्टीरिया हमारे शरीर के भीतर रहते हैं। कई बैक्टीरिया हानि रहित हैं और कुछ ...

वैज्ञानिक अध्ययन: ध्यान केंद्रित करने में कैसे मदद करता है मस्तिष्क का मध्य भाग

वैज्ञानिकों का कहना है कि सुपीरियर कॉलिकुलस-कोर्टेक्स की कनेक्टिविटी व्यक्तियों में ध्यान के केंद्रित होने और उसके भटकाव को प्रभावित कर सकती है

NMC Bill protestors divided: Resident doctors call off strike, IMA calls for another

While resident doctors are content on being assured to be consulted, the IMA insists on continuing the protest

Empowering women lies at the centre of controlling population growth in Africa

The goal of family planning programmes is not to hit population targets but to empower women so they can choose the number of children they will …

Telling children how not to go the dodo way

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Tears and the drama aside, the message survives

Prabhat Roy's award-winning Shwet Paatharer Thala is a tear-jerker, which nevertheless effectively preaches the lesson of family welfare.

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Realities unmasked

A look at the prescribed guidelines for PCB appointments reveals glaring loopholes

Legal salve

As palliative for AIDS

Blow to anti-AIDS campaign as condom turns taboo subject

The paanwallah-doubling-up-as-a-condom-vendor ad has been taken off the air. Instead, Doordarshan will show a village council member warning …

Tripura roused

Government wakes up to the need for disaster management

Demand charter from children for education, health sectors

Report>>Ensuring Universal Access To Health and Education in India, Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, Delhi 2007

Poverty alleviation: investment or mere sop?

After successive reductions, can increased allocations for rural development, agriculture, education and health be effective?

Sensitive economics

Anil Agarwal's article, "The poverty of Amartya Sen", publised in the December 15, 1999 issue of Down To Earth , has drawn a number of …

Bridging the gap: a school below Delhi Metro line

Waking up to the horrors of child labour

Several groups are working among child workers in India, seeking to improve their working and living conditions

In AID(S) of the dying

To tackle the killer disease ravaging South Africa, the government's health policy will have to undergo a drastic change

Rat chronicles

The tiny rodents that most people link only to pestilence and crop destruction have fascinated Ishwar Prakash -- one of that rare breed: a rat …

Scholarships alone are not enough to get more qualified female teachers into Nigeria’s schools

UNICEF estimates that over half of all girls are not in school in the north while under a third of all primary school teachers are women