Good News : 17,000 fewer children die each day than in 1990, Maternal mortality has fallen by 37% since 2000.
Bad News: Only half of the women in developing regions receive the health care they need and globally. New Viruses like SARS, MERS and nCoV are threatening the wellbeing of the humanity
Shielding Lungs
PM inaugurates One World TB Summit 2023, urges collective war footing approach in TB elimination Addressing the gathering, the PM stated that the ‘One World TB Summit’ embodies the Indian philosophical principle of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’, a Sanskrit phrase that means ‘the world is one family’. He stated that it is imperative for us to embrace …
PM Modi’s request to 130 crore Indians on ‘Tika Utsav’
Launch of ‘Tika Utsav’ ( translation:Vaccine Festival) by PM Modi is the invitation to turn the war against COVID19 into single minded determination of 1350 million Indians. He appealed to the Indian citizens that from 11th April, which is the birth anniversary of Jyotiba Phule a social reformer till 14th April which is the birth …
Praised by the world but lesser by Indians
Majority of the people in the world of literature did not take due note when Rabindranath Tagore wrote Geetanjali. But when that poetry was published in London, the world of literature went on to shower praise on the ‘poetic thought of Tagore’. Then he became the first Indian to get Nobel Prize in the literature. …
The road to fighting climate change is through climate justice
The health of people is closely linked to the health of the planet. And both are linked to sustainability and prosperity. Three are interlinked. People’s health is threatened by COVID19. But the efforts to keep the health of the planet should not be overlooked. The scale of the challenge of people’s health ( SDG3 ) …