One manual scavenging death every five days: Official data
Context: SINCE JANUARY 1, 2017, one person has died every five days, on an average, while cleaning sewers and septic tanks across the country, according to numbers collated by the…
Child death below 5 declined faster in India: UN
Context: Death of children below the age of five continues to steadily reduce in India, declining from nearly 22 per cent in 2012 to 18 per cent in 2017, which…
HIV/AIDS Act, 2017 in force
Context: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued a notification for bringing the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017 in force…
Checking the new abnormal
Context: Dismayed by the increasing number of cases of lynching across the country, the Supreme Court observed last month that “it is the responsibility of the States to prevent untoward…
The public-private gap in health care
Context: The recent controversy about transparency in the working of the cadaver transplant programme in Tamil Nadu has provided an opportunity to revisit the vexed question of medical rationing in…
No child left behind
Context: The urgency to address poor nutrition in India, especially among children, adolescent girls and women is compelling, and re-confirmed in virtually every survey — from NFHS-4 in 2015-16 (the latest available…
How India should close the financial gender gap
Context: The World Bank’s latest Global Findex data proves that India has made rapid strides in improving access to formal financial services. In 2014, just 53% of adults had a…
Homeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018
A bill seeking to replace the Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH) with a board of governors and aimed at bringing accountability and quality in homoeopathy education system was passed by…
Breastfeeding is not only the Mother’s Responsibility
Context: Breast milk is more than just food – it is an elixir tailored to the infant’s growth and developmental needs. The infant needs this elixir exclusively for a full six months…
India’s adultery law is crudely anti-woman
Context: Individual members of a Supreme Court bench hearing achallenge to the validity of Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code on adultery have all spoken against the law as…
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