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India's Millets Makeover: Set To Reach Poor, School Meals
A pearl millet farm in Raichur, Karnataka. A new government proposal seeks to put millets--which have higher iron,...
In A Poor Gujarat District, Infrastructure Cannot Compensate For Lack Of Jobs
The neonatal intensive unit in Ahwa Civil Hospital has ten warmers and five attending nurses. Even though Dang...
2 Years To Swachh Bharat Mission Deadline, 62% Districts Still Report Open Defecation
With less than two years remaining until the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) deadline, 62.5%, or 400 of India’s 640...
Support Groups Welcome New Rare Disease Policy, Seek Incentives For Orphan Drugs
Shashank Tyagi, a 27-year-old Delhi-based businessman, was diagnosed with Gaucher’s disease when he was five. “I still...
While Militancy Made Headlines, Drug Addiction Quietly Spiked In Kashmir
Srinagar: Drug addiction is a bigger challenge than militancy in Jammu & Kashmir today, the state’s director general...
New Toilets In Indian Trains No Better Than Septic Tanks: IIT Study
A new kind of toilet using bacteria to break down human excreta has been deployed in Indian trains over four years to...
Non-Communicable Diseases Rise In India, Poor States Still Grapple With Infectious Diseases
Students from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences conduct a community education programme in a Delhi slum. The...
New TB Infections Fall, But Drug-Resistant Cases Rise
A patient collects his medicines for tuberculosis from a Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) centre in...
