INDIA INNOVATION INDEX 2019 NITI Aayog with Institute for Competitiveness as the knowledge partner released the India Innovation Index (III) 2019 NITI Aayog launches India Innovation Index 2019. NITI Aayog with Institute for Competitiveness as the knowledge partner released the India Innovation …
MAMALLAPURAM SUMMIT: KEY TAKEAWAYS India and China must aspire to ensure that Asia’s seas are not arenas of contestation MAMALLAPURAM SUMMIT – PM Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on an informal summit at Mamallapuram, a coastal town near …
The latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) has ranked India a lowly 102 among the 117 countries it has mapped. Background: The GHI has been brought out almost every year by Welthungerhilfe (lately in partnerships with Concern Worldwide) since 2000; this year’s …
The Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred …
NATIONAL HEALTH MISSION (NHM) Twenty per cent of NHM funds are based on the states’ performance, which means better performing states received a financial incentive — Rs 3,000 crore is set aside for incentive-based payments. ‘Acceleration in decline of Maternal …
Notified cases increase by 16%: Tuberculosis India Report 2019 An increase of 16% as compared with 2017 and the highest so far noted, says Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Tuberculosis India Report 2019 In 2018, the Revised National Tuberculosis Programme …
The move is part of the Centre’s plans to widen the coverage of the scheme and thus reduce the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures. PMJAY to offer Teleconsultation– The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) health insurance scheme is set to offer …
Overcoming ‘vaccine hesitancy’ can reduce the global spread of measles infection The World Health Organization (WHO) has included ‘vaccine hesitancy’ as one of the 10 threats to global health for the year 2019. With a 30% increase in measles cases …
A recent report published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health gives comprehensive estimates of disease burden due to child and maternal malnutrition and the trends of its indicators in every state of India from 1990 to 2017. Malnutrition continues …
Financial exclusion: 40.9 per cent of small, marginal farmers not covered by banks Despite so many initiatives and schemes aimed at financial inclusion, only 40.90 per cent of SMF could be covered by the scheduled commercial banks (SCBs), the report …
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