A non-government organisation, National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled has claimed that prolonged imprisonment and inadequate medical care exacerbated pre-existing health issues of former......
'Every report I filed for Rediff.com on the professor's incarceration, would leave me wondering for days, at the depth of the State's malevolence towards this disabled professor, and his equally......
The National Polio immunisation programme, as part of which children in the age group of 0-5 years are administered polio drops, has been deferred "till further notice" by the Centre citing......
Former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, who was released from the Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday after his acquittal in an alleged Maoist links case, said it's a 'wonder that he could come......
'The first duty of the government is to learn lessons from a bad experience and course correct. It's a pity that the government is making policy without looking at evidence and differentiating......
History shows us that even effective vaccines could have unknown side effects that could develop over time, warns former Cabinet Secetary K M Chandrasekhar. On July 2, the Indian Council of......
IMAGE: Jaspreet Kaur lifted 101kg to become the first athlete in Khelo India Para Games 2025 to break the national record. Photograph: Khelo India/X Punjab powerlifter Jaspreet Kaur grabbed a......
Jhandu Kumar, who has polio-affected legs since birth, has switched from shot put and discus throw to weightlifting. He has qualified for the World Championship, to be held in Egypt in October. Now......
IMAGE: Punjab's Seema Rani registered a record lift of 97 kg in the women's elite 61 kg category at the Khelo India Para Games 2025. Photograph: SAI Media The fifth day of the Khelo India Para......
India's Bhavina Patel, the silver medallist in the Tokyo edition, entered the quarter-finals of the women's singles class 4 table tennis event at the Paralympics with a 3-0 win over Mexico's......
IMAGE: India's Tokyo Games bronze medal-winning archer Harvinder Singh scored five convincing victories to better the hue of his medal at the Paralympics in Paris on Wednesday. Photograph: Archery......