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By Prachi Salve At least 60 million Indians — a number more than the population of South Africa — suffer from mental disorders, even as the country lags the world in medical professionals and spending on mental-health issues. Nearly 10-20 million ...

Written by Ana Martinez Juan, A definition… biker3 / Fotoalia When it comes to poverty, one of the key issues is defining what it means and how it can be measured. Two types of poverty are generally categorised: absolute or extreme poverty, that identifies...

National PM Narendra Modi inaugurate Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction:- i) Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) in New Delhi ii) The conference has been...

By Marissa Wesely & Dina Dublon In 2006, the Economist proclaimed that women are “the world’s most underutilised resource.”1 Since then, a growing body of research has reinforced the idea that the economic empowerment of women can significantly...

Sixtysix years after independence, India continues to be a country with widespread poverty and backwardness and finds a place only at the bottom of the development index in the international league of nations. The euphoria generated at the time of independence...