India's Great Challenge: Health & Sanitation - Page 20
Filthy Facilities Imperil Bihar’s Sterilised Women
Women at a healthcare facility which was part of a study on female sterilisation in Eastern Bihar. Women...
1 Laboratory For 8.8 Million, As India Faces Food-Safety Crisis
Faced with a growing food- and water-contamination crisis, India has only 148 food-testing laboratories. In...
Keeping Chicken Healthy Threatens India's Health
Outside the northern city limits of Bangalore, in a commercial poultry farm, cages packed with screeching...
In 3 Months, Swine Flu Deaths Top Worst Annual Toll
The H1N1 influenza, commonly known as swine flu, has claimed 1,947 lives and infected 32,663 people across India...
How 46 Million Indians Are Being Slowly Poisoned
Around 46 million people in India—or the size of the population of Spain—are exposed everyday to contaminated water,...
Indian Swine-Flu Virus Reveals Dangerous, New Mutation
A potentially virulent and distinct strain of the swine-flu virus that continues to kill and panic people appears to...
9 Of 10 Private Sector Retirees Have No Pensions, Health Insurance
Only 8% of employees who retire from the private sector in India are covered by pensions while the remaining 92% have no...
Why Punjab Is India's Narcotic Haven
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio speech last month, envisaged the creation of a...