Primary health centres across UP use crude methods to do laparoscopy. Welcome to Sadhauli Kadeem block in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. The primary health centre here is proud of its staff's

Online lottery for anti poverty programmes. Short on funds the once financially strong state is trying to beguile lady luck. Close on the heels of Sikkim and Karnataka, Maharashtra has hit the road

A strange disease is snuffing out the lives of children in several parts of western Uttar Pradesh. The villagers and health authorities have no idea what it is. The government says 46 children died

Four years ago E.G. Sadanandan and fellow poachers made their money plundering the Periyar forest in Idukki district of Kerala. They still live by the forest, but with the backing of forest

Innovation that transmits tactile sensation over the Net could find use in healthcare and education.The possibilities of the invention - exchanging the feeling of touch -are sure to excite a lot of

The people of Mahboobnagar district, Andhra Pradesh have become so inured to starvation deaths that two more did not raise an eyebrow. When officials confirmed that two women died of starvation in

When the Union ministry of health and family welfare claims that the new Directly Observable Treatment Short Course is the best for tuberculosis in India, something is lost in the fine print: that

People fight for development in Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh. The Uranium Corporation of India's plan to start mining and processing of uranium in Nalgonda may have earned the wrath of activists, but it

Maharashtra village makes premarital AIDS test mandatory; the youth agree. "Western Maharashtra, in particular has seen an increase in the number of people infected with the AIDS virus," says

A new type of grass has transformed the lives of villagers in Bawani village in Uttaranchal. When the project staff initially approached the vilalges in 1996 with the idea of using a new type of