India seeks new ways to fund energy-efficient lighting

Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao has sought a generous American visa policy for high-skilled workers from India saying it would help both countries to come out winners. As US policymakers move forward with efforts to reform the immigration system, "we ...

Creating a window in the kitchen can save lakhs of Indian women who die a slow death because of the smoke from the fuel used in cooking food. Household air pollution generated from burning coal cow-dung cake, wood and farm residue as cooking fuel inside ...

India has taken several big strides over the past decade to reduce maternal mortality. The results are beginning to show. A decade ago, close to 75,000 women died every year during child birth or due to pregnancy-related causes. By 2010, this number ...

New Delhi : The controversial leader Uma Bharti illustrated herself in the Indian polity as one of the popular spiritual leaders of her time. She earned the title of a `sanyasin’ through numerous displays of spirituality through `teerth yatras’ ...

Harold Leroy Patterson, 92, is a man of many parts, one who has often chosen a road less traveled, somehow arriving where he was meant to be by listening to the voice within him. A cherished adopted Quinault and preacher in the Indian Shaker Church, ...

An 18-month-old girl has had free lifesaving surgery. Roona Begum's condition also known as water on the brain caused her head to swell to three times its normal size. On Wednesday surgeon Sandeep Vaishya told AFP: The surgery went perfectly, much ...

Dr. Cleide Suguihara, who helped save thousands of tiny lives in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital, lost her own on Thursday to complications of breast cancer. The director of Jackson's Molecular and Cell Biology ...

Health News: NEW DELHI: The Indian Union health ministry is setting up an agency, National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO), a central coordinating agency on organ transplants, at Safdarjung Hospital, director general of health ...

Robert Swan, the only person to walk to the North and South Poles, on Tuesday warned "economically- rising" India that it will end up "swimming in waste" if it forgets the lessons of sustainability. The 56-year-old activist, however, has good words ...