Isha Foundation exempted from prior environment clearance: Centre tells Madras High Court
Jaggi Vasudev’s foundation gets exemption on grounds for promoting education
What is the Green Credit Programme?
It is a first-of-a-kind market-based instrument designed to incentivise individuals, industries and local bodies for their voluntary …
Simply Put: Our lives matter
Scientists develop non-invasive technique to assess burn wound healing
A mere laser light is enough to check the status of recovery
Obituary: Amit Sengupta (1958 to 2018) was a powerful voice for health equity
His optimism and persistence will inspire generations of activists
Simply Put: Age of inequality
Maths, physics not compulsory to study engineering: Experts differ with AICTE
Some are critical, while others believe the idea is not a bad one
More than 39 billion school meals missed during COVID-19 pandemic: UN report
UN agencies urged governments to prioritise school reopening
Marginal improvement in rural women’s education, finds NFHS-5
Social, cultural stigmas reasons for lack of improvement
Girls in rural India less likely to know how to use smartphones, computers: Survey
Boys more than twice as likely than girls to own their own smartphone, finds ASER 2023
Government discontinues science, health awards; to establish ‘Vigyan Ratna’ on lines of Nobel Prize
India’s research and development expenditures are among the lowest in the world
Inspection of medical colleges to become history soon
No final decision on NEXT, fee yet; NMC to take final call
Investments in basic needs, education & modern tech should be India’s focus in the next 25 years: Experts
Currently, only 3% of India’s GDP goes into education
Why Indian students need to go abroad to study medicine
Entrance to Indian medical colleges competitive and the tuition fees are high
Simply Put: A childhood of heavy lifting
India needs a freedom movement against non-performing officers
NPOs should be removed if the Union government’s schemes are to bear fruits
Allocation for family welfare awareness fell 8% last year: PFI on why Budget 2024-25 should focus on adolescents
Investment to bridge digital gender gap & improve health literacy critical to unlock India’s true economic potential, says …
Mid-day meal price hike less than Re 1 as food inflation hits record level
The annual rise of material price came after a pause of 2 years because of the pandemic
Multidimensional poverty affects 2/3rd of children in rural Nigeria: UNICEF
Larger proportion of children involved in economic labour were multi-dimensionally poor
Amrit kaal for adivasis? What Union Budget 2023-24 does not say about tribal communities
The vision highlighted in the budget speech does not match ground realities
Global supply chains major user of child labour: UN report
Asian region has highest child labour in global supply chains
Informal workers’ vulnerability risks are passed on to their children: OECD
New report calls on governments to extend social protections to break the cycle of low-paying work
India slips a rank in UN Human Development Index 2021-22
Global human development stalled for 1st time in 32 years
Tobacco consumption declines across states, dry Bihar consumes more alcohol than Maharashtra: NFHS-5
Alcohol consumption among women aged 15 years and above highest in north-eastern states
Independence Day 2020: Learning under the shadows of COVID-19
Why education is all the more important in disastrous times