Mental health insurance likely to reduce stigma
Many suffering from mental disorders avoid treatment due to the stigma attached but IRDA's directive asking insurance companies to provide …
Sugarcane crisis: Govt focuses on technology fixes, but not on mounting dues to farmers
While sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh owe about Rs 12,500 crore to farmers, the government’s measures were directed mostly towards tackling …
Karnataka elections: do social welfare schemes ensure electoral victory?
In the last few years, several governments, which were relying on social welfare schemes for electoral win, were defeated. Ashok Gehlot’s …
Despite huge cancer burden, India has only 0.4 million blood stem cell donors
The demand and supply gap is widening as people don’t register themselves as donors due to lack of awareness about the issue
सरकार असफल या नसबंदी?
नसबंदी के बाद गर्भ ठहरने की शिकायतें देशभर से आ रही हैं, वहीं इसके एवज में मुआवजा लेने के लिए लोगों को अदालत जाना ...
Gorakhpur child deaths not the only case of mismanagement in government hospitals
There is no scientific consensus on the cause of encephalitis that has been claiming lives every year in the Gorakhpur region since 1978. But an …
Why is Centre making Aadhaar compulsory for poor TB patients despite Supreme Court order?
In the past, the Apex Court had asked the Centre to not make Aadhar compulsory for public welfare schemes
Modi Sarkar’s big budgetary miss: Malnutrition
Having the highest number of malnourished children in the world, India cannot afford to overlook this fact
India stands 90th on Energy Architecture Performance Index
The country’s ranking remains low due to inefficient energy infrastructures and lack of energy access
India leads the world’s failure story in eradicating open defecation, malnutrition
New WHO-UNICEF report warns that lack of progress on sanitation would undermine gains from access to safe drinking water
‘Many seismic gaps in Himalayas capable of producing powerful earthquakes’
In an interview to Kundan Pandey, Supriyo Mitra, associate professor with the Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science …
Regulate online sale of drugs in India, say experts
Indian Medical Association warns that data generated from online visits and sale could be sold to other websites or hospitals
भारत में जनसंख्या की रफ्तार स्थिर, क्या फिर भी है कड़े कानून की जरूरत
आरएसएस प्रमुख मोहन भागवत ने हाल ही में सरकार को जनसंख्या नियंत्रण के लिए कानून बनाने की सलाह दी है। क्या देश को वाकई ...
Scheme for promoting home gardens needed: Experts
It can ensure nutritional security of people living in areas where shifting cultivation is practiced
Bills not sent to any committee in ‘productive’ Parliament session
The five Bills that were scrutinised by some or the other committee were not introduced in the current session
Union Budget 2019-20: Govt makes major push for easy adoption of e-vehicles
The sops include tax deduction of Rs 1.5 lakh on loans taken to buy e-vehicles, more charging station in smart cities, highways
A lone warrior who fights malaria and saves lives
For the past two decades, Ram Kumari has been single-handedly ensuring timely diagnosis of the disease in her village in Chhattisgarh
आम चुनाव से दूर रहेंगे पत्थरगढ़ी के लोग
पत्थरगढ़ी के लोगों का कहना है कि आम चुनाव के बहाने उन्हें प्रताड़ित किया जा सकता है, इसलिए वे चुनावी प्रक्रिया में शामिल नहीं ...
Stigmatised occupations need urgent attention: Oxfam report
In addition to being prone to the risk of disease, the practitioners of such occupations also lack social security
Agriculture sector not responsible for discoms’ health, declining groundwater: study
While power consumption in agriculture is overestimated, a number of factors influence groundwater extraction
Measures to curb 'unethical profiteering' by private hospitals not working: Govt report
Patients and health groups asserted that the unethical practices of private hospitals are a direct outcome of the regulatory vacuum
About 75 per cent of total deaths due to PM 2.5 take place in rural India: study
In 2015, PM2.5 was responsible for approximately 1.1 million deaths, which is 10.6 per cent of total number of deaths in the country
Did Punjab introduce cancer vaccine based on faulty research by PGI Chandigarh?
Claims made by the professors at PGIMER have been challenged by a member of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation
One-fifth of pregnant women at risk due to Group B Sterptococcus bacteria
The first comprehensive research on the bacteria estimates that out of 410,000 cases every year, there will be at least 147,000 stillbirths and …
India's rank slips further in global hunger index, fares worse than North Korea, Iraq
More than one-fifth of the children younger than five years in India suffer from wasting and over a third have stunted growth