This practice paper describes our experience of implementing accredited social health
activists (ASHA) Kirana, a digital technology-enabled Maternal Clinical Assessment Tool (M-CAT) …

The paper discusses an approach to verbal autopsies that engages with the Rashomon
phenomenon affecting ex post facto constructions of death and responds to the call for maternal …

OBJECTIVE: To assess knowledge, acceptability, and use of emergency contraceptive pills (ECs)
among lower-income married women in Bangalore, India. METHODS: EC counseling …

Climate change-associated environmental vagaries have amplified the incidence of pests
and pathogens on plants, thus imparting the increased quest for management strategies. …

Plants are challenged incessantly by several biotic and abiotic stresses during their entire
growth period. As with other biotic stress factors, insect pests have also posed serious …

Burgeoning population growth, industrial demand, and the predicted global climate change
resulting in erratic monsoon rains are expected to severely limit fresh water availability for …

Methods The GHE project tracks on an on-going basis all pregnancy-related deaths that occur
in 67 villages of Koppal district, Karnataka. Of these, 23 deaths were investigated using its …

Pigeon pea is an important legume infested by a plethora of insect pests amongst which
gram pod borer Helicoverpa armigera is very prominent. Imparting resistance to this insect …

Abstract Development of transgenics in pigeon pea remains dogged by poor plant regeneration
in vitro from transformed tissues and low frequency transformation protocols. This article …

Key message Highly tolerant herbicide-resistant transgenic rice was developed by expressing
codon-modified synthetic CP4 - EPSPS . The transformants could tolerate up to 1 % …