Month November 2017
Women in rural Nalanda are popularizing the use of a traditional grinding stone to pound flour out of roasted gram, providing a healthier alternative to machine-ground sattu and earning a livelihood for themselves Mohd Imran Khan A woman uses… Continue Reading →
JYOTSNA SINGH Crumbling: The footfall at the PHC in Alwar’s Bhanokhar has declined in the last two years since it transitioned to a PPP model. Between June and August nearly 2,500 people had visited the OPD in 2016, while the… Continue Reading →
TNN | Nov 10, 2017, 05:47 IST KOLKATA: The pleas of a mother of a 27-year-old with cerebral palsy , who failed to get Aadhaar-registereddespite three attempts because of his physical disability , prompted the Calcutta high court on Thursday to ask the Centre a simple question: why were… Continue Reading →
Read the complete list Updated: Nov 10, 2017 | Pune: Indian Higher Education norms have often left us confused and alarmed. But nothing can be more beguiling than the latest criterion released by Savitribai Phule Pune University for Keertankar Shelar… Continue Reading →
by Rhett A. Butler The “Safety Net” initiative aims to map the best opportunities for conservation and ecosystem restoration globally. That means incorporating data on variables ranging from species richness to climate trends to deforestation rates for every point on Earth’s… Continue Reading →
This Is Among The Worst In The World, Reveals Study In stark contrast, consultation time in first world countries like Sweden, Norway, USA, is more than 20 minutes on an average. The length of medical consultation, also called as primary… Continue Reading →
Dear Prof G.N. Saibaba We read the two handwritten letters you wrote to your friend P.V. Vijay Kumar in September, on the 21st and 26th, letters he felt had to be shared with the world, even a world indifferent to the injustices done… Continue Reading →
Thousands of workers assemble at Delhi to reject Modi’s all round failure to raise wages, control price rise and protect jobs, even while giving concessions to big industrialists and cronies. Subodh Varma As over 70,000 workers from across the country… Continue Reading →
People’s Union for Democratic Rights has long been drawing attention to egregious violation of rights of workers governed under various labour laws. Most important of these rights is the fundamental right to form trade union, so as to engage… Continue Reading →
Kalpana Kannabiran MORE-IN Right to Privacy It is important for the courts to examine disability as a ground for the grant of bail In the Supreme Court’s right to privacy judgment (Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India), Justice D.Y. Chandrachud held: “Life… Continue Reading →