A man suspected to have contracted Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) has died in Maharashtra's Solapur district, while the number of cases of the immunological nerve disorder in Pune rose to 110,......
Right to apprenticeship, legal guarantee for MSP, passing a constitutional amendment to raise the 50 per cent cap on reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs, a nation-wide caste census and scrapping of......
'The minute I tell couples to use condoms or suggest permanent birth control, they ignore it or just change the topic.' India has surpassed China to become the world's most populous nation with......
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday promised to restore the old pension scheme for government employees in Himachal Pradesh if the Congress was voted to power in the assembly elections. IMAGE:......
More rural women are having babies in government hospitals.Facilities have improved, but Bihar, discovers Archana Masih/Rediff.com, has a long way to go in public health. IMAGE: A nurse examines a......
It's an exercise in connectivity and dissemination of information. For, Anganwadis, the only pre-school childcare facilities for children below the age of five, in Orissa will now be available on......
The budgetary allocation of Rs 6,400 crore was earmarked for the centre's flagship health insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY). The health outlay this......
Increase of 10% to 12% likely in a bid to improve citizens' mood after demonetisation, report Veena Mani and Arup Roychoudhury. As part of a post-demonetisation gift, the government could increase......
The National Health Protection Scheme -- announced by the finance minister -- is aimed at benefiting 10 crore poor families by providing coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year HIGHLIGHTS......
Modi government's health ministry is good at making new claims but there is no visible sign of any new programme being initiated, finds out Manoj K. During the last week of May 2015, several......