-Outlook Expanding its facility, Railways have included all TRAIns under its online TRAIn tracking service, TRAInenquiry.com, providing updated information about their movements. According to a statement issued today, TRAIn running information can also be sources by sending SMS to 139. All that one has to do is type 'SPOT' and send it to 139. The development comes in the wake of real-time TRAIn tracking system SIMRAN (Satellite Imaging for Rail Navigation) developed by...

-The Hindu Here is a classic case that will reveal how the “high-handedness” of a few officials has affected the lives of two Dalit women in Udupi. The two women, Akku and Leela, have put in about four decades of service at the Government Women Teachers’ TRAIning Institute on a monthly salary of Rs. 15. Although they were promised that their services would be regularised, they did not get any benefits even...

-The Indian Express The Planning Commission has proposed to TRAIn registered medical practitioners, commonly referred to as quacks, to ensure universal health coverage reaches even the remote populations. “Affordability, accessibility and quality are three pillars of UHC. The challenge is to fill the gaps especially in rural areas where there is a problem of TRAIned manpower. We would like to TRAIn traditional midwives and RMPs — some people call them jholawala doctors...

-The Hindu While the Internet growth story in India seems promising, individual users are yet to play their rightful role. Individual consumption is placed at 29 per cent — much lower than the international figure of 45 per cent, which means the Internet economy in India continues to be driven by large companies. By 2015, the Internet sector is projected to become bigger than the education sector, and equal to the...

-The Times of India Average life expectancy in India jumped up by 4.6 years in the decade up to 2008, according to the latest data released by the Registrar General of India. Since this was also the period when economic reforms had the maximum impact, it gives the lie to an idea that's pervasive in the political domain - that reforms benefited only a tiny elite, leaving the rest of India's...