India's Global Hunger Index rank is 102

The 2021 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows us the impact of multiple crises like climate change, violent conflicts, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which led many countries to a grim hunger situation.......

What is Type 5 Diabetes?

'Everyone with low BMI will not get Type 5 diabetes.' Kindly note the image has been posted only for representational purposes. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nataliya Vaitkevich/Pexels.com   A recent......

Humanity that works

Sonal Shah,IndiaAbroad Person of the Year 2003, is on the move. Having tackled the poverty and disease of sub-Saharan Africa, the Asian financial crisis, and the breakdown of Bosnian society, she......

India among top 10 countries with highest Type 1 diabetes prevalence: Lancet

An estimated 8.4 million people were living with Type 1 diabetes across the globe in 2021, and India was among the top ten countries with highest prevalence of the disease, according to a modelling......

Global warming may cause extreme droughts in India

Global warming could lead to more extreme droughts in large parts of India, resulting in widespread food shortages and hardship in the country, in the next few decades, a new World Bank report......

Poverty: WB paints a bleak picture of India

India now is ahead of only Sub-Saharan Africa among developing countries in terms of the percentage of population below the poverty line, though it fared better than China on this count in 1990,......

Half of top economists expect world economy to weaken in '24

More than half (56 per cent) of chief economists expect the global economy to weaken in 2024, with most saying the pace of geo-economic fragmentation will accelerate, according to the latest......

Ranbaxy's malaria drug awaits international nod

Even as India's largest drug maker, Ranbaxy, is confident of launching its first 'new drug' by January 2012 to combat malaria in the country, the global euphoria the potential drug had generated in......

Enjoy ICC World Cup in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bangla and Marathi

ICC offers wide range of platforms to tune into World Cup IMAGE: World Cup will be broadcast across seven regional language feeds in India. Photograph: ICC/Twitter To provide cricket fans across......