Almost all states in red zone on gender equality: NITI Aayog
Context: When it comes to gender equality and achieving targets under Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), almost all Indian states are in the red zone except Kerala and Sikkim, which are…
Unbanked Directed Blood Transfusion (UDBT)
Context: Recently a pregnant woman contracted HIV through the blood she was donated in a government hospital in Tamil Nadu’s Sattur area. The donor didn’t know he was suffering from…
30 mn newborns cry out for help
Context: An estimated 30 million newborns require specialised care in hospital every year without which many either die or develop preventable health conditions and disabilities that affect them for life,…
What is altruistic surrogacy?
What is an altruistic surrogacy arrangement? According to the new Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, approved by the Lok Sabha, it includes contracting a ‘close relative’ as a surrogate by a heterosexual married…
Surrogacy Bill, then & now
Context: Lok Sabha passed the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016. Cleared by the Cabinet in 2016, the Bill was subsequently referred to a Parliamentary Standing Committee (Health & Family Welfare) before…
Rehabilitation of Bonded Labour
Context: Article 23 of the Constitution of India prohibits “begar” and other similar forms of forced labour and further provide that any contravention of the said prohibition shall be an…
Is it time to abolish the death penalty?
YES As a punishment, the death penalty makes no sense: how does killing a person who has killed a person show that killing is wrong? Most of the civilised world…
Nikshay Poshan Yojana
Context: The direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme for nutritional support to Tuberculosis (TB) patients — Nikshay Poshan Yojana (NPY) — rolled out from April this year has recorded slow progress…
National Medical Devices Promotion Council
Context: To give a fillip to the medical device sector, which is a sunrise sector, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, announced setting up of…
#MeToo’s importance for women’s jobs
Context: The #MeToo campaign has implications for the much-debated issue of India’s female labour force. India's female labour force participation rate: The country’s female labour force participation rate (LFPR)—the share…
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