Delhi hospitals freed of poor
Delhi High Court exempts four private hospitals from treating the poor for free. Experts fear other hospitals will follow
Carting away sand
Labourers illegally mine beach sand in Ratnagiri, removing the buffer between ocean and human habitat
Will welfare schemes win votes for UPA?
An analysis of Brazil’s last three elections suggests that peopleÔÇêdo vote for parties for such initiatives, but only when …
Premature scheme
Gujarat's plan to increase institutional deliveries among expecting mothers has fallen flat
Developing issues
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Rags to pads
Self-help groups making low-cost sanitary napkins are ready to supply them to rural India
A smile for the camera
At the capitals of three mining hotbeds, AVINASH KUMAR finds a battle to capture public imagination
Umbilical Discord
An estimated 8,000 babies are born with neural defects every year in Rajasthan. Most of them die within a few months of birth. They are lucky. …
In rural West Bengal, debts mount and socioeconomic fabric collapses in absence of MGNREGS
Local economy hangs by a thread as residents desperately demand revival of the rural employment scheme
Launch of State of India’s Environment 2023: In Figures — what to expect & how to register
The e-book will be released in an online event at 12 noon on June 4, 2023
UN projects food inflation to go up in 2024 due to El Nino, rising geopolitical tensions
May impact food insecurity, poverty; scaling up climate financing critical to help developing countries cope with climate impact
What is ‘noma’, the latest addition to WHO’s list of neglected tropical diseases
The severe gangrenous disease of mouth and face has 90% mortality rate and is associated with extreme poverty, malnutrition
Government tries to harvest success with farmer-friendly Budget
The 2016 Budget has the right intent for the rural sector, but lacks clarity
Books in cyberspace
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No two droughts are alike
Bring farmers to farms
Battered Lungs
Lung cancer is a result of the deadly cocktail of smoking, air pollution and poverty
Today's Plague
Some of the most common cancers in India are directly linked to poverty
Killer with a BIAS
There is overwhelming evidence that some of the common cancers target the poor
WTO: a mock battle
24 deaths in 2 months
Ahead of polls, BPL politics in Chhattisgarh
World Environment Day 2023: Rural India bears the brunt of climate change
Climate change is a global challenge with local implications; important to build coping mechanisms for rural communities
How sand mining along the Narmada is choking web of life
Mining has altered the landscape, river flow, water availability and sand deposit patterns; rivers have dried up, farming has become difficult&…
Global Hunger Index: India slips to 107 from 101, behind all Asian countries except war-torn Afghanistan
Other countries in the same classification as India include Pakistan, Afghanistan, Zambia, Botswana, Sudan, Ethiopia and Mali