Charu Bahri
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Lessons From Rajasthan For India’s Latest Universal Health Coverage Programme
Rambha Prajapati, 54, is grateful for the Rajasthan government's Bhamashah Swasthya Bima Yojana for having saved her the recurring cost of dialysis, a procedure she needs twice weekly. → Read More
How Arctic Weather Could Affect Indian Farmers
Mount Abu, Rajasthan: While the India Meteorological Department has predicted 97% of normal monsoon rains this year, meteorologists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune are keeping a close eye on unfolding weather conditions at the Arctic Circle--5,000 km away--for t... → Read More
Indians Richer But Less Happy Today Than 3 Years Ago
Mount Abu, Rajasthan: India has been ranked 133rd among 156 countries in the United Nations’ (UN) World Happiness Report 2018, 15 places down from its position in 2015. → Read More
Better Nutrition In Early Life Could Give India 3.17 Million More Graduates
Mount Abu (Rajasthan): Ensuring supplementary nutrition for children in the 0-3 years age bracket could raise the number of graduates in India by 3.17 million, according to new research. → Read More
Over 15 Years, India Slides On Key Marker Of Gender Parity
Twenty one years ago when Poonam Gaur was a young bride, her in-laws in Bas Padamka in Haryana disallowed her from studying further or working. Today, she is part of a group of women who help disadvantaged, illiterate women understand the message behind Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, the government’s a... → Read More
How Caste Networks Enabled Corruption In India’s Rural Roads Programme
Legislators colluded to unfairly award rural road building contracts worth Rs 3,592 crore, a new study suggests. When MLAs and district collectors shared a surname, a contractor with the same surname was more likely to be awarded a contract. → Read More
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, calcium and mineral content than rice, wheat and wheat derivatives--back in the Indian diet. → Read More
How India Can Cut Rampant Antibiotic Misuse In Food Animals
In the absence of clear regulations, most poultry farms keep chickens in confined areas lacking proper sanitation and mix small doses of antibiotics with the animal feed to prevent disease. → Read More
How India Can Meet Its Sustainable Development Goals On Poverty & Hunger Despite Economic Slowdown
Dashrath Majhi (second from right) with his family. A job at a local alumina refinery has helped him pull his family out of poverty and hunger and into moderate prosperity. → Read More
Why Arsenic Found In Pakistan’s Groundwater Should Worry India
RIGHT: The testing of wells in Pakistan revealed which are contaminated with arsenic. This map shows the level of arsenic in groundwater across the valley of the Indus and its tributaries in Pakistani Punjab where some 50 to 60 million people were found to be potentially at risk of arseni... → Read More
More CO2 In The Atmosphere Produces Food Crops Shorn Of Essential Nutrients
Successive generations of Indians have quibbled about the sliding quality of dana-pani (food-drink) and hawa-pani (air-water). Now, US-based scientists have proven that more carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is indeed sapping the nutrient content of staple foods, leaving people less heal... → Read More
As India Warms, Farm-Suicide ‘Epidemic’ Will Worsen: US Scientist Advises ‘Urgent’ Action
Every one-degree-celsius rise in temperature beyond 20°C (degrees Celsius) during the growing season on India’s farms causes 67 suicides, with 59,300 suicides since 1980 attributable to climate change, according to a new study by Tamma Carleton, a doctoral student in agricultural and resou... → Read More
Vaccination Failures, ‘Mediocre’ BRD Hospital, Claim Lives Of Eastern UP’s Children
Children admitted at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Patients of Japanese encephalitis, the viral brain infection that killed many of over 70 children in BRD Medical College hospital, cannot survive longer than 15 to 20 minutes without oxygen. → Read More
‘Indian Poultry Farms Use Antibiotics To Replace Nutrition, Hygiene; Endanger Human Lives’
Twelve of 18 poultry farms surveyed reported using antibiotics to boost growth of chickens. Among the antibiotics used were tetracyclines and fluoroquinolones, popular medicines used to treat humans. → Read More
Why Indian Women Must Eat With Their Families, And How It Can Change India
Morthala (Sirohi district): When the women of this southwestern Rajasthan village sat down to eat, it was usually after the rest of the family had finished its meal -- the men first, the children next and themselves last. → Read More
How Incurable Japanese Encephalitis Threatens Emerging India
Jayanta Potshangbam, a junior resident medical officer at the Shija Hospital & Research Institute, Imphal, Manipur, looks over a 58-year-old male patient of Japanese encephalitis (JE), in critical condition. → Read More