India launches 'Modicare', world's biggest health scheme

Modicare has laudable goals, but it must be supplemented with accessible, affordable and high-quality primary healthcare

The issues embedded in Maharashtra’s Economic Survey have a national resonance. It is verily a WhatsApp message for India.

Instead of continuing to cast doubt on scientific studies documenting the negative impacts of air pollution on health and mortality in India, the government needs to finally start acknowledging the extent of the problem.

The article stresses on the need to revamp India's healthcare administration and empower local bodies to achieve national objectives

Rohini Nilekani, Founder-Chairperson of Arghyam, joined us at the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Dialogues on Political Economy to discuss problems with access to sufficient and quality water in India, and innovative approaches that have been succes...

This World Economic Forum piece explains: "Children whose mothers own land are more than 30 percent less likely to be severely underweight than children of women who do not own land."

Watch Pritchett discuss methodological issues with current measures of development and how such indicators can help countries strategise for growth.

"Rates of under-nutrition among pregnant women in India are far higher than in sub-Saharan Africa"