Hency Thacker

Food safety and hygiene is of paramount importance in order to prevent illnesses with focus on achieving the highest possible level of good health and well-being in India. Promoting hygienic food handling practices and increasing awareness on personal hygiene can help in building a strong foundation of good food habits amongst people. In an attempt to inculcate...

There has been a huge paradigm shift in the way the businesses worked after the term Customer Relationship Management (CRM) was coined. The service sector has become very dominant in today’s world, leading the other businesses to provide additional services along with the products to increase as well as retain the existing customers. Personalisation...

According to Union Ministry of Health and Welfare Data, Healthcare sector in India is facing acute shortage of trained professionals. There has been a shortage of 2 lakh paramedics in the country till 2015. Addressing the national concern, while working towards social issues such as women empowerment and healthcare in rural India, Apollo Munich Health...

Kota of Rajasthan is the 25th largest district in India. The district located at the banks of river Chambal, is yet to achieve the tag of an Open Defecation Free district. Lack of awareness and proper infrastructure for sanitation has led many young students to fall sick forcing them to miss school. In a bid...

Healthcare is critical to every individual irrespective of their income. However, the infrastructure of public healthcare in India is not enough to accommodate large number of patients. The private healthcare does not allow people with low income to get services for its high expenses. This results in many people to ignore healthcare for monetary...

Climate change has become a global concern today. There is a huge pressure on the automobile industry to focus on reducing the carbon footprint. Globalisation and liberalisation policies in India have increased the number of road vehicles by almost 92.6% from 1980-81 to 2003-04. These vehicles mainly consume non renewable fossil fuels, and are a major contributor...

Global water crisis is deepening with each passing day. Even a developed city like Cape Town in South Africa is enduring one of the worst water crisis and it may allegedly run out of water next year, if not sooner. Closer to home, Kerala has declared 9 districts as drought hit due to shortage...

World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nation's principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment. First held in 1974, it has been a flagship campaign for raising awareness on emerging environmental issues from marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming, to sustainable consumption and wildlife crime. World Environment...

With depleting resources in the world, energy crisis have begun to hit many parts of India as well as the world. This has led many countries to research and develop technology as well as infrastructure to enable production and usage of renewable energy. There has been a lot of innovation in the renewable energy sector....

Nutrition is an important aspect of every growing economy. According to UNICEF, 20 per cent of children under five years of age suffer from wasting due to acute under nutrition in India. More than one third of the world’s children who are wasted live in India. Forty-three per cent of Indian children under five...

Disability in India is looked down upon. The people with disability are often considered weak which is why they often lack the opportunity to prove otherwise. In India out of the 121 Cr population, 2.68 Cr persons are disabled which is 2.21% of the total population. This is a huge number of people to...

Talking about menstruation has always been a taboo in India. And menstrual hygiene has been almost non-existent in several parts of the country. Menstruation is considered to be impure in many religions. This has made even the most educated people believe and enforce that a menstruating woman should avoid worship places. In many communities, women...