Bill to ban misleading ads moved in Indian Parliam...

The health ministry of Indian government has introduced a Bill in Parliament to ban misleading ads and proposing a penalty of INR five million and prison for five years on its violation.

Fate of print media in the digital world

Magazines have always had a glamour and charm of their own. However, with the advent of internet and digital space, magazines and other print media has been facing challenges like loss of readership and dwindled sales. Nicholas Coleridge, former president of Condé Nast Internat...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 20...

The United Nations (UN) observes February 11 as International Day of Women and Girls in Science and this year it is celebrating the theme ‘Investment in Women and Girls in Science for Inclusive Green Growth’.

World Cancer Day: One in 10 Indians will develop c...

World Cancer Day is organised on February 4 every year by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)as an initiative under which the entire world can come together to fight against the global cancer epidemic. The theme for the years 2019-21 has been set as ‘I Am and I Wi...

Interview: Rajendra Shende, chairman, Terre Policy...

Hailing from a spiritual family, living in a small village in Maharashtra, but equipped with an engineering degree from a reputed college, professor Vishwanath Karad, a leading educationist, has integrated spirituality, science and sustainability with the object of promoting inte...

Non-cooperation movement

The year 2020 marks 100 years of the non-cooperation movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi as part of the Indian independence movement. A 100 years on, Indians are beginning to rediscover that even though we have stepped into a new century, the troubles we face stay the same, and s...

India good place for living, but not for raising c...

Though India has made a place in the best 25 countries to live in 2020, it seems it is not good enough for raising children or safety of women. Also it has not been working enough to promote equality and social mobility as it ranks seventh lowest in the Global Social Mobility lis...

The women warriors of Shaheen Bagh

For nearly two months now, hundreds of women, many of them grandmothers, have been leading a peaceful protest against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act in a part of New Delhi that has become icon of the rebirth of peaceful resistance against an autocratic power, exactly...

Blind healthcare schemes in India

Only 21 pc women reap the benefits of Ayushman Bharat, thus strongly highlighting how the government needs to focus on women and girls so that they receive their due in the use of healthcare services.

India in 2019