Weighing the cost

Goa will become the first state in the country to adopt national resource accounting

BRAZIL

My village, their plan

CII to develop rural business hubs; villages clueless

Is pregnancy a disease?

The development of birth-control methods that use the body's immune system may be more convenient than condoms and pills. But several groups …

Thermal power generation set to expand six times

What it means

Figure it out yourself

A striking fact about water in India is the lack of reliable data about all its aspects: total potential, available supply and demand

Open defecation linked to stunting in Indian children

Research finds 10 per cent increase in open defecation associated with a 0.7 per cent increase in stunting in 112 districts

Plans for Andhra's scheduled castes, tribes remain on paper

No vision, no planning, no adequate allocation and utilisation of funds, says Cabinet panel report still under wraps

Curing the ills of pharma FDI

Foreign investment in existing pharma companies will be allowed with riders

Importing Disaster

Customary and religious laws are impeding progress towards women’s health in Nigeria

The country has the second-largest HIV epidemic in the world; its women make up more than half of people living with the disease  

किसान क्यों नहीं बनाते टमाटर से सूप पाउडर?

किसानों के लिए ग्रामोद्योग कार्यक्रमों के तहत प्रशिक्षण क्यों नहीं दिया जाता है

COVID-19 fatality: India average 1 death in 51 cases, but 127 districts fare worse

Data gaps, under reporting suggest pandemic is more acute than Centre, states make it to be

गांव के 22 हजार हाट बाजारों में अब तक सिर्फ 476 को किया जा सका अपग्रेड

बीते दो वर्षों मेंअब तक महज पचास फीसदी यानी 11 हजार से अधिक ग्रामीण बाजारों (हाट) के जमीनी सर्वेेक्षण का दावा किया गया है। 

CSR: Is India Inc spending responsibly?

Companies can bring meaningful changes in society through the huge Rs 13,624 crore corporate social responsibility funds

अधिकार में मिली जमीन छिनने का डर

अधिकार स्वरूप लोगों को दी गई जमीन छत्तीसगढ़ सरकार द्वारा वापस लेने के कारण तीन जिलों के निवासियों पर बेदखली की तलवार लटक गई ...

3 reasons Jakarta is the fastest sinking city in the world

Scientists say that by 2050, the capital of Indonesia will be entirely submerged

If sanitation is treated as a community problem, we can make something happen for very little money

Just like a better iPhone is not the solution to poor telecom connectivity, sanitation cannot be solved by a smart, well-designed product, sold …

Don't quit at Quito: Follow the health pulse of the New Urban Agenda

The new report, 'Health as the pulse of new urban agenda', released by the WHO in Quito, has outlined the guiding health principles that should …

Thirteen women die after undergoing sterilisation at government camp in Chhattisgarh

Locals claim negligence as doctors rushed to meet targets

HEALTHY POLICY

Killer highway

ECOFRIENDLY PLAN

Cast away

After being at the receiving end of both militants and the state government, Kashmir's village heads are now threatening to boycott next year's …

Employment schemes fail to ease rural poverty

The government's employment generation schemes, laudable though they may be, have yet to achieve their goals. Not involving intended …