Providing Health For All

Health

Source : www.thehindu.com  Date : 2018-12-12 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Today, on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, I wonder how many readers are aware of what UHC is. According to the World Health Organisation, UHC means “ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access essential quality health…

Sc Directs Centre To Declare 10 Km Area Around National Parks As Eco-Sensitive

Environment

Source : www.thehindu.com  Date : 2018-12-12 OPINION Relevant for: Environment & Disaster Management Topic: Environmental Conservation, Sustainable Development & EIA The Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam.Ritu Raj Konwar The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Union Environment Ministry to declare 10 km area around 21 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries across the country as ‘eco-sensitive zones’.…

Anchored In Human Rights

Indian Polity & Constitution

Source : www.thehindu.com  Date : 2018-12-11 OPINION Relevant for: Indian Polity & Constitution Topic: Rights Issues – Human Rights and NHRC Decades of global neglect have resulted in tuberculosis (TB) becoming the leading cause of adult deaths in most of the global south — it kills nearly two million people a year. This is shocking given…

Don’t Believe The Anti-Gmo Campaign

Indian Economy

Source : www.thehindu.com  Date : 2018-12-11 OPINION Relevant for: Indian Economy Topic: Major crops, Cropping patterns in various parts of the country incl. Various Agriculture Revolutions “India has one of the strongest regulatory protocols for field trials of GM crops.“ Bt Cotton being harvested near Salem, Tamil Nadu, in 2005.>Shaju Joh> A review article, “Modern technologies…