Reading between poverty lines

Is the latest poverty estimate a true indicator of rural poor in India?  

Pray before you spray

Household cleaning products cause cardiac diseases

Let’s talk sex

Awareness campaign changes attitude towards sexual health and family planning in Bihar

More grime on teflon

Chemical used in teflon triggers early menopause

Orissa tribals struggle to regain cashew rights

Bitter feud

Birth control pangs

Injectable contraceptives raise alarm

First comes chick

Kuroiler hens offer a poultry business model that can fight poverty, nutritional stress

Cooperative in spirit

Verghese Kurien, the man who made cooperatives an empowering business model

Child marriage twice as prevalent in Nigeria’s rural areas than urban: Report

The overall rate of child marriage in the country has declined

As told to Parliament (March 25, 2022): Central hub to provide quality seeds to farmers

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Victims of pollution

Tribal women in Chattisgarh beat the poverty trap with fortunes from traditional medicines

Tough nut to crack

When the government must step in

Hanging by a thread

Weavers of renowned Ponduru khadi are abandoning the craft

No two-finger test for rape

Health ministry does away with the controversial test; medicos demand use of rape kit

Beating the drought

How some villages stayed afloat even as neighbouring lands parched

Cooking on toxic fumes

Burning biomass causes TB

India’s ‘untouchable’ women face discrimination even in schemes meant to help them

Origins of India’s caste system go back thousands of year

The swing

More women than men are voting in India. Majority of them are from rural areas

The fittest survive

UP police withdraws charges against social activist

Ideas to save government money

Cause for concern