India pushes WTO members to accelerate work on outstanding Doha Round issues
Geneva: India has raised the bar on the need for a permanent solution on public stockholding programmes for food security, safeguard mechanism for curbing unforeseen […]
Health
‘15% of country’s population undernourished’
AURANGABAD: Highlighting the grim picture of farmers’ suicide placed by the NCRB data – stating that so far about 3,08,826 farmers committed suicide from 1995-2014 […]
Young India Social Innovation Summit 2016 concludes
Bhubaneswar; Sept 30,2016: While the world is abuzz with entrepreneurship and its role for societal development, we cannot deny the role of social innovation in […]
India has 60 million mental patients, inadequate staff, medical facilities for treatment
Punjab has a startling number of more than 1.9 million people with mental illness, of the 60 million plus Indians — a number more than […]
Cerner opens on-site health center for employees in India
Cerner has opened Healthe at Cerner Center at its Manyata campus in Bangalore, India – giving more than 2,200 associates access to the clinic, which […]
Online Health Start-Ups E-Connect Patients, Doctors Across India
Armed with technology, young start-up firms offering health services online are challenging taboos associated with many bodily and mental ailments and bridging the digital divide […]
Young India Social Innovation Summit 2016 on 29 & 30 Sept
Young India Social Innovation Summit 2016 is taking place at Bhubaneswar on 29 & 30 Sept. It will represent a national convening of social innovators […]
Chikungunya and dengue: India Health Ministry meets to review preparedness
With the surge of the mosquito borne diseases, chikungunya and dengue, being reported out of Delhi, Indian health officials met Wednesday to discuss preparedness for […]
Metals from cigarette butts contaminate marine environment
Smokers, beware! The cigarette butts you discard may be causing metal contaminants to leach into the marine environment and potentially enter our food chain, a […]
2016 Global Nutrition Report launch in India
Find solutions in an Indian way: 2016 Global Nutrition Report launch in New Delhi, India By Basanta Kumar Kar* The Coalition for Food and Nutrition Security (CFNS) convened the 2016 […]