Nine in 10 schools in Bihar offer mid-day meals without kitchen infrastructure
Drinking water and toilets also missing in most state-run schools
Elusive hunt for skills and jobs
Budget outlays will not do much for job creation or readying youth for skilled work
Too little in environment ministry's kitty
Reduction in ministry's budget by almost half expected to hit forestry research the most
Water business
'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 …
New UN report gives recommendations to improve human development in Asia-Pacific
Proposes green growth approach, among others
Poverty high in Ghana, but so is school enrollment
Households claim improvement in living conditions over last 10 years
Punjab, cancer capital of India
Government survey shows cancer cases in the state exceed national average
Almost half of doctors in US from lower-income countries
India has spent around $1,850 million on 53,000 medical graduates practicing in the US
From the blurbs
UN calls for protection of rights of women, indigenous peoples
The 69th session of the UN General Assembly will see the participation of world leaders on crucial global issues
Out of control
Parts of India still struggle to stabilise population growth
Children make up for 80 per cent of deaths attributed to climate change
But they are the most ignored in the climate change discourse
Call for policy to check drug abuse, overuse
Public health experts suggest ways to curb drug resistance
Science and Technology - Briefs
Africa loses more money than it gets in aid
While annual global aid is less than $30 billion, the continent incurs loss of $58 billion every year
Grim reminder
A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness
Skill development: China shows the way
Vocational education in India seems to be caught in a time warp. In contrast, China has a well-designed system in place
Gujarat's power consumers paying for losses caused by Coal India Limited
Supply of inferior quality coal to power plants has increased power production cost, points out NGO
Karnataka lost Rs 3,000 crore due to illegal mining: CAG
Performance audit report unveils mining irregularities in the state
Teachers in Chhattisgarh not to take up extra duties
Mobile technology to be used to improve maternal and child health in Africa
Smartphones will help health workers track the health of expecting mothers and their unborn children
BANGLADESH GETS AID
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Environment ministry rapped
Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes