With increasing evidence that childhood obesity is a “global epidemic” affecting even the poorer nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines on how trained professionals can better…
ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a concept of weekly or fortnightly virtual clinics that use teleconferencing to bridge the gap in healthcare resources by using the best specialists…
A nation-wide study, carried out by the National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau (NNMB) to assess urban nutrition, shows not only a great diversity in food consumption in 16 States in the…
A law that forbids any kind of full- face covering, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, has come into force in Austria. Starting on Sunday, wearing a…
The Karnataka Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the much-delayed and debated Karnataka Prevention and Eradication of Inhuman Evil Practices and Black Magic Bill, 2017, popularly known as the anti-superstition Bill. The…
Government has enacted the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Amendment Act, 2016 which came into force with effect from 1st September, 2016. With this amendment, employment of a child below…
Highlights of the Report: Thirty-two countries, having the world’s 85mn children under the age of five, do not have any essential policy that supports families with young children. According to…
An “inter-ministerial process” is under way to discuss the repercussions of the Hague convention on India. The government had in November 2016 announced that it would not sign the convention.…
A policy passed by the Assam assembly to check state’s growing population has received flak from state’s minority outfits for being ‘against the marginalised’. Asserting that the limited resources cannot…
Quick Read In 2015, 777 million people were estimated to be hungry According to a new report, the food security situation has deteriorated in parts of sub-Saharan AFrica and South-Eastern and…
