Smog chokes coal-addicted Poland
The soupy grey smog shrouding Polish cities this winter is one of the most visible symptoms of the EU member's addiction to coal, a deadly habit forcing many to stay…
The soupy grey smog shrouding Polish cities this winter is one of the most visible symptoms of the EU member's addiction to coal, a deadly habit forcing many to stay…
THE PTI administration has promised to build five million houses for the less fortunate as part of its plan to improve affordability and expand access to affordable housing. The Naya…
THE Lady Health Workers Programme is the only pro-poor initiative in the country today directly delivering critical health services, but LHWs have been designated as a dying cadre in Punjab.…
While research tries to find the treatment for antibiotic resistance, so far prevention by controlling the over prescription and overuse of the ‘wonder drug’ among humans and food animals is…
As a non-traditional security threat, climate change has continued to produce daunting challenges for Pakistan. The pressing issue of global warming poses a direct threat to the country’s future economic…
Chronic disease is the biggest epidemic ever faced. Yet, even though it touches almost every family, people are not tuned into this epidemic, as such, nor are the causes fully…
India's recently passed Mental Healthcare Bill marks the government’s first national effort to tackle depression. One of the bill’s impacts is that it decriminalises suicide, a landmark move that deserves…
The budget is not just an accounting exercise that brings government expenditures and revenues in line with what is considered a prudent deficit target. For it to be meaningful, the…
Iqbal Bano is tired. For a 77-year-old woman with chronic joint pain, insomnia and limited means, the weekly visit to Kot Lakhpat Jail – which she has been making for…
To Ghana's legions of jobless young men, Eric Bimpong has a money-making proposition: sell your blood. Bimpong spends his days outside schools, bars and on the streets of poor neighbourhoods…