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

News 360° - Briefs

Environment ministry rapped

Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes