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COPD: What we know about the disease that killed a million Indians in 2017

Levels of air pollution have risen dramatically over the last two to three decades. That has had a major impact on COPD

India's drug-resistant TB patients face late diagnoses, confusing treatment

India also has the highest share (24%) of drug-resistant TB cases, i.e. patients resistant to one or more first line drugs used to treat the more common, drug-sensitive TB

Incomes fall as cow-related violence scuttles beef, leather exports: Report

India is the largest exporter of beef in the world, exporting buffalo meat worth $4 billion a year. However, since 2014, exports have mostly declined

How Swachh Bharat Mission's pit toilets failed to help flood-prone areas

Flood-prone areas get twin-pit toilets, not Ecosans, all to meet Swachh Bharat Mission targets

Improving women's education, health key to solving India's Anaemia problem

Anaemia is widespread in India--58.6% of children, 53.2% of non-pregnant women and 50.4% of pregnant women were found to be anaemic in 2016, as per the NFHS

With 45 million new voters, parties need to talk jobs, education in 2019

Issues relating to the youth, education and jobs, are likely to take centrestage in the general elections 2019

Having just one time-zone costs India Rs 29,000 crore, finds study

Some countries such as the US and France have multiple time zones and DST

Modi govt's 144% hike in agri spend not enough to quell India's farm unrest

The farming community is still struggling to cover the cost of cultivation leave aside make any income or profits

How coastal Odisha women are stepping up to contain climate change impact

If women menstruate during the floods, they have no option but to wash in floodwaters and re-use the blood-soaked cloth they use as a sanitary napkin

Patiala only Indian city with clean air as new anti-pollution plan stumbles

The air quality in the world's most polluted city, Delhi--home to 20 million people--remained above safe limits almost all days this winter between November 2018

1 in 6 elementary school teachers not professionally trained in India

Teacher training is imperative for improving learning outcomes in Indian classrooms

Interim Budget 2019: How it can help India clean air, cut coal addiction

Addressing policy issues are important if India is to fulfill its commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement 2015 to install 175 giga watt (GW)

Interim Budget 2019: How it can help improve quality of India's schooling

The school education system in India is facing a shortage of trained teachers and a lack of proper infrastructure

Interim Budget 2019: Focus must be on skilled labour to tackle unemployment

Unless skill development programmes receive impetus, the numbers of the unemployable will only rise

Interim Budget 2019: What govt needs to do to boost higher education bodies

India's expenditure on higher education as a percentage of its total budget has remained largely stagnant, hovering around an average 1.47% over 12 years to 2018-19

Interim Budget 2019: Farm spend doubled in Modi govt years; is that enough?

Agriculture generates only 18% of gross domestic product but sustains 600 million people--half of India's population

India more urban than we know? How policies fail to keep up with transition

24,000 'villages' with populations greater than towns lose out on policies for urban areas

84% Indian girls not ready for menstruation, shame leads to poor hygiene

Only 57.6% of women in India use sanitary napkins--48.5% in rural areas and 77.5% in urban areas

Fighting tuberculosis: Why other states should follow Telangana and Andhra

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have thousands of unqualified traditional practitioners who mainly work within communities and wield trust among them

Climate change: Why people are reluctant to act despite knowing the risks

Jeffrey Shaman of the Mailman School of Public Health in New York explains how climate change impacts our health and why it is so difficult to link a particular public health event to climate change