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Government Brings 376 Drugs Under New List Of Essential Medicines

The Health Ministry has drawn up the revised National List of Essential Medicines which has seen the number of medicines go up to 376 from 348 in the earlier list prepared in ...

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How Nirbhaya Rape Case Points To India's Deep-Rooted Problem With Women

New Delhi (CNN) There’s crime and then there’s evil, pure and simple. By any standards, the events of December 12, 2012 can only be described as evil — the v...

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Long Live The King, Mahesh Bhatt On Dilip Kumar

Don’t ask me why, but when I saw the image of Dilip Saab receiving the Padma Vibhushan award at the hands of Rajnath Singh, union home minister, in the presence of his p...

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Mumbai Is In For A Pollution Scare Like Delhi

As panic over the levels of pollution in Delhi escalated, residents of most other Indians city probably heaved and sigh of relief thinking, “Thank God, we don’t li...

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Power Of Nutrition: The $1 Billion Startup

Nutrition has a color. Alethea Dopart had brand colors on her mind — “you usually see greens, yellows, sometimes orange” — as she guided me through the...

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UN Recognises 'Human Right To Sanitation'

In a bid to combat open defecation, the UN has adopted a landmark resolution recognising the human right to “sanitation” as a distinct human right along with the r...

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Three Stories That Explain Why I Am Relentlessly, Passionately, And Impatiently Optimistic

After a decade and a half of working on the issues facing the world’s poorest people, I like to call myself an impatient optimist. When I visited rural India last month,...

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Rajinikanth Throws Open His Marriage Hall For Sanitary Workers

Tamil superstar Rajnikanth has thrown open his sprawling marriage hall for accommodating sanitary workers from various districts engaged in the work to clean up the mess creat...

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DD To Telecast Special Programme On Mental Health Problems & Prejudices

The Doordarshan flagship programme Aaj Savere will focus on issues relating to mental health awareness and public education. Consultant psychiatrist Dr Avdesh Sharma will dis...

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196 Countries Approve Historic Paris Global Warming Accord

The world on Saturday got a historic climate deal with all 196 countries approving the Paris text that got unprecedented support from all quarters.  It will for...

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POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024

KALEIDOSCOPE: BRIDGING THE SACRED AND THE ARTISTIC

A spiritual and artistic celebration that brings the divine essence of Varanasi’s ...

November 22 2024