More than 575 million girls live in countries "where gender bias is a serious issue".
31 May 2018 5:21 PM
If all countries use these interventions, the world would move significantly closer to reduce premature death by one-third by 2030.
17 May 2018 4:20 PM
Some 65 million are pushed into extreme poverty, mainly due to paying out-of-pocket for medicines.
05 Apr 2018 3:08 PM
Compared with those who maintained level of wealth, participants who experienced negative wealth shock were 50 per cent more likely to die.
04 Apr 2018 11:03 AM
Ahmadi appears a little bemused by the attention triggered by the photo of her cradling baby Khizran during the exam last month.
26 Mar 2018 11:07 AM
It's urgent to have a national breast cancer program in India, while at the local level, awareness needs to be raised about breast cancer.
23 Mar 2018 1:32 PM
The efforts are being made in many directions by the government to generate maximum potential for self-employment.
16 Mar 2018 2:23 AM
Advances in SCCA treatment have boosted survival and cure rates, but benefits are uneven among patients of disparate socioeconomic status.
12 Mar 2018 6:46 PM
When a girl is forced to marry as a child, she faces immediate and lifelong consequences.
06 Mar 2018 4:43 PM
Feelings about the frequency of rape or other forms of sexual assault in a neighbourhood are significantly tied to women's.
15 Jan 2018 6:40 PM
Some 800 million people worldwide spend at least 10 percent of their household income on healthcare.
14 Dec 2017 12:03 PM
Adityanath hit out at critics claiming that there were some who opposed and questioned his actions regardless of what he did.
18 Oct 2017 8:37 PM
Empowering women has been held up as an answer to myriad global problems, starting with poverty.
28 Sep 2017 7:22 AM
He says there can be potentially serious conflict between poverty reduction and reduction in inequality.
28 Aug 2017 3:12 PM
Modi noted that the menace of corruption has adversely impacted the development of the country and has eaten the polity from the inside.
10 Aug 2017 2:05 AM
Microfinance is facing trouble because the purity of its mission has been diluted.
22 Jun 2017 6:16 AM
The question here is: where exactly has Raheel Sharif joined and what would be his role?
18 Apr 2017 12:14 AM
The stories of the three other girls held by the police were no different.
18 Mar 2017 2:29 AM
She has taken great strides to give children a reason to smile with her organisation.
09 Mar 2017 1:31 AM
Odisha’s real per capita income rose from Rs 47,632 in 2011-12 to Rs 61,678 in 2016-17 at 2011-12 prices, the report said.
27 Feb 2017 1:06 AM