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The present health care system in Odisha gives neither a voice nor authority to doctors. Policy decisions are made with no reference to the stakeholders. With all of us having a lot to learn of lessons every day from Covid, feedback from all healthcare workers is of paramount importance.

The car window winds down and new age author Paolo Coelho asks for directions to the expressway. “Here, have this map,” I reply, handing him a folded piece of paper with “Follow Your Dream” on it. Okay, that hasn’t happened yet, but scientists say we live in an infinite multiverse which means that it is […]

By Rajan Sankar & James Levinson Obesity and overweight recorded an 8.6-fold increase in India’s rural areas over 14 years, compared to a 1.7-fold increase in urban areas over 20 years. In the rural areas of Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh where we’ve been working, we found that 40 per cent of reproductive-age women are […]

By Nishant Arora New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) While the world is witnessing cloud data breach incidents more often — micro-blogging website Twitter being the latest one — and governments the world over are looking for ways to ensure data security, India has also joined the chorus for a safe, secured cloud experience. The Telecom […]

By Saumya Tewari Family courts in the prosperous, southern state of Kerala ruled on just over five divorces every hour in 2014 – 130 every day – more than any of the 12 Indian states that compile such figures, according to government data. Although India does not appear on the world divorce statistics records, a […]

By Amit Kapoor The union cabinet last week approved the much-awaited civil aviation policy. The policy, which has been instituted in an integrated format for the first time since independence, breaks new ground in the promotion of the aviation sector in the country. Various aspects are touched upon in the policy but broadly there are […]

By Amulya Ganguli The rapid entry and exit of Kamal Nath as the Congress observer in Punjab has once again shown the inadequacies of the party’s leadership. A decision on such an important appointment dealing with the party’s poll prospects in the state must have been taken at the highest level in the “ma-betey ki […]

by Saeed Naqvi Every Joint SecretaryÂ’s room in the Ministry of External affairs had a neatly folded copy of the International Herald Tribune on the coffee table. This was the pattern in the 70s and 80s. In mid 90s, after economic liberalization and the birth of the global live media following Operation Desert Storm, TV […]

BY Abhishek Waghmare Farmhand Yashodabai Rathod, 38, migrated to Mumbai for the second time in last three years, with her husband, three daughters and three sons, brother-in-law and his wife, and their three children from the drought-hit southeastern Maharashtra region of Marathwada. Sporting a gold nose-ring and mangalsutra (a gold chain Hindu women wear as […]

By Abhishek Waghmare A migrant from MaharashtraÂ’s drought-stricken Marathwada region triples her income – if temporarily – after moving to Mumbai, climbs out of poverty and can repay loans, but families must live in 40 sq ft homes, the size of a large carpet, according to an IndiaSpend survey of 60 migrant families. Each adult […]

Once relegated to the status of “orphan crops”, pulses and millets are currently a subject of tremendous interest among the global community. Pulse crops, millets and a host of other local cereals, vegetables, and fruits are of vital importance to the world’s poor. It is no surprise, therefore, that development agencies working in the area […]

By Saeed Naqvi I don’t exactly gasp but am puzzled by the indifference with which the media has treated two fascinating Indo-Iranian stories. Now that Indo-Iranian relations are set to improve after crucial agreements signed in Tehran by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Hassan Rouhani, the anecdotes should be shared. During his journey to […]

By Shreya Mittal & Sukanya Bhattacharyya As many as 18.3 million Indians live in conditions listed as “modern slavery” in 2016, equivalent to the population of Netherlands, a rise of 4.1 million since 2014, according to a new global report. In other words, 5,616 Indians were enslaved every day over these two years. On an […]

London: What is it about the sight of a baby that makes almost everyone crack a smile? New research has found that cuteness of babies is designed to appeal to all our senses to trigger our care-giving behaviours, which is vital for them to survive and thrive. “Infants attract us through all our senses, which […]

By Himadri Ghosh Bengaluru: No more than six per cent of a government fund – collected over six years from companies and institutions – meant to restore forests lost to development projects has been used, according to government data, a pointer to the laws violated and promises not kept after forests are cut. Even the […]