-The Hindu Tawang Deputy Commissioner leads Team to inoculate villagers of Luguthang at 14,000 ft GUWAHATI: Away from home grazing their yaks, 16 residents of Luguthang village in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang district could not make it to a COVID-19 vaccination camp organised on May 19 at Domstang, about five hours’ trek away. However, the vaccines reached the homes of the grazers at 14,000 ft above mean sea level on July 12, brought in...

-The Hindu It is critical that we safeguard young people’s well-being because India’s welfare hinges on them World Population Day is marked on July 11 every year to focus attention on the importance of population-related issues. It was first observed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1989 and aims to raise the discourse on sustainable ways to safeguard each life that adds up to a population. As flagged by a UNDP...

-Hindustan Times The cases of Zika virus were reported three days ago and has now climbed to 15 in Kerala. The state government has formulated as action plan to check the spread of zika virus disease. The Centre too has rushed a Team of experts to the southern state. Tamil Nadu has intensified checking at its border with Kerala after cases of Zika virus emerged in the southern state. Tight vigil is...

-Down to Earth Child marriages surged after COVID-19 first wave; streamlined state efforts helped arrest the trend, claim officials As many as 3,970 villages in Odisha were declared child marriage-free between January and the first week of July 2021. The development has coincided with second wave of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic; the state had registered a surge in child marriages during the first wave. In 2020, only 62 villages were declared...

-Livemint.com India has had the seventh-longest school closure in the world, affecting over 300 million school-children. Underprivileged students without access to smartphones and computers have been hit hardest For most people across the world, how much they earn is determined by how wealthy and well-educated their parents were. But the degree of ‘persistence’ in incomes across generations is much higher in India than in other developing countries, a Team of World Bank...