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Mental health during Covid: How patients coped with India's plagued system

"The Covid-19 crisis did not create new shortcomings," said Pathare of CMHLP. "The crisis laid bare the existing shortcomings that have plagued the mental health system for years"

How reservation in private schools isn't working for poor children

Social discrimination, illegal demands for tuition, activity fees, and non-reimbursement of the expenditure incurred by private schools that join the programme are the factors that hobble RTE system

116,000 infants killed within months due to air pollution in India: Study

Babies born with a low birth weight are more susceptible to childhood infections and pneumonia.

Bihar's women win against alcohol but lose to illicit liquor, drugs

On April 1, 2016, chief minister Nitish Kumar had declared Bihar a dry state, following in the footsteps of Gujarat, Mizoram, Nagaland and Lakshadweep

60% custodial deaths within 24 hrs of arrest; most in Maharashtra, Gujarat

Just three states--Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat--accounted for almost half of deaths in police custody over the past 10 years

Transparency critical in coronavirus vaccine trials: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

She says, after healthcare workers, the military, the police and anyone who is on the frontlines, teachers and the young working class, should be given the vaccines

Rape cases against scheduled caste women rose 37% in last 4 years

Overall, crime against women increased by 23.3% and crime against the Scheduled Castes by 18.8%

In times of job loss and insecurity, Malegaon emerges a successful outlier

None of the labourers working at power looms in Malegaon are migrant workers, said Yusuf, the union's chairperson

Govt releases new plastic waste management norms: How they fall short

The draft rules propose to give manufacturers five years to achieve waste management targets, starting with 30% and moving up to 90% in the fifth year

12% Indian land prone to landslides as climate change increases the risks

Last year, 264 Indians died in landslides, said a report on accidental deaths and suicides in 2019 by the National Crime Records Bureau

Parliamentary panels' role reduced, functioning at all-time low, data show

The standing committees under the first NDA govt met for 145.5 hours less than the ones under the preceding UPA government

Meat consumption in India is rising but it also brings its own risks

"Meat-eating at the scale that is happening on the planet does have environmental consequences," says Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder, director of the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy

'Covid patients from outside straining Mumbai hospitals, city is prepared'

IndiaSpend speaks with Gautam Bhansali, a specialist in general medicine and infectious diseases at Bombay Hospital in south Mumbai.

80% parents in 5 states say digital schooling failed during lockdown: Study

The Oxfam study aimed to assess the impact of the prolonged lockdown on students in multiple areas, including the supply of mid-day meals.

How retiring old coal plants could save Rs 53,000 cr for power discoms

As on April 30, Indian discoms owed over Rs 1 lakh crore ($13.65 billion) to power generation companies, according to the Ministry of Power data

Heat may kill more people than major diseases by 2100, says study

The scientific consensus is that global warming must be limited to 1.5 degrees Celcius by 2099 to avoid the worst predictions

Why 243 Indian women had to ask a court for permission to abort

Each year, millions of women in India find themselves with an unintended or an unwanted pregnancy for various reasons

India's patchy mental healthcare system failing to deliver during pandemic

Past pandemics led to worsening mental health issues and an increase in suicides, according to studies

How coronavirus pandemic has disrupted India's routine healthcare services

Fewer women accessed maternal healthcare in March and April 2020

India cannot be export powerhouse without being open to imports: Panagariya

Except for a gap of about 200 years, India has been a large contributor to global output, Panagriya wrote in his book India Unlimited: Reclaiming the Lost Glory