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How Financial Stress Is Driving Families Into Suicide

July 28, 2023

In February this year, a couple and their 21-year-old daughter died by suicide in their apartment in Kolkata. Bijoy Chatterjee used to run a small business in the Burrabazar area that provided for his stay-at-home wife and their daughter who was a

Malaria No More India Director Says, India Must Increase Access To Quality Healthcare To Meet Malaria Elimination Goals

Tannuka Juneja

August 23, 2022

News·Social Welfare & Development

Malaria is preventable and treatable, but it continues to have devastating effects on the health and livelihoods of people around the world. In 2020, there were approximately 241 million new malaria cases and 627,000 malaria-related deaths in 85 countries. According to the

Department Of Chemicals Sings MoU With ILO To Adopt ICSCs

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July 28, 2022

Law & Governance

The Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals (DCPC) signed an MoU with International Labour Organisation (ILO) to adopt the International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSCs) for information dissemination to the chemical industry. The MoU was signed in the presence of the Union Minister of

Rice Fortification: Hyped up or Beneficial?

Vivian Fernandes

July 4, 2022

Agriculture & Society

On April 8, this year, the cabinet approved a scheme to supply fortified rice kernels (FRKs) through Public Distribution System (PDS) shops, Anganwadi centres and schools. In the first phase, rice in mid-day meals, renamed as PM-Poshan 2.0, served to pre-primary children

1 Billion People Live With a Mental Disorder, Says WHO

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June 17, 2022

Education, Health, Sports & Entertainment

According to the survey by World Health Organisation, almost 1 billion people were living with a mental disorder in 2019, 14 of the affected are teenagers. Global challenges such as social inequality, the Covid-19 pandemic, war and the climate crisis are threats

Matters of the Mind

Jasvinder Sidhu

May 4, 2022

Education, Health, Sports & Entertainment

Pramod, 31, a factory worker in the Gurugram industrial area, lost his job as soon as the first 21-day lockdown was announced by the government, without any notice, in March 2020 to contain the spread of Covid-19. When the lockdown was announced

If We End Vaccine Inequity, We Can End COVID-19 Pandemic: WHO Chief

Tannuka Juneja

January 4, 2022

Education, Health, Sports & Entertainment

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, he is optimistic that the Covid-19 pandemic will end in 2022, if inequity ends. Hitting on countries over vaccine hoarding amid rising cases, the WHO chief said that narrow nationalism and vaccine

How Financial Stress Is Driving Families Into Suicide

Department Of Chemicals Sings MoU With ILO To Adopt ICSCs

Rice Fortification: Hyped up or Beneficial?

1 Billion People Live With a Mental Disorder, Says WHO

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If We End Vaccine Inequity, We Can End COVID-19 Pandemic: WHO Chief

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