Amid increasing cases of monkeypox being reported in non-endemic countries, the government on Tuesday issued guidelines directing district surveillance units to consider even one such case as an......
About 273 million Indians moved out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-6 and 2015-16, according to a United Nations report, which noted that India has recorded the largest reduction in the......
Indian peacekeepers in Liberia, including a women contingent, were honoured with medals for their courage and service in maintenance of peace and security in the West African country. The......
The two maps, above, show the density of hospital beds and doctors per 10,000 population across the world. The data, taken from WHO's World Health Statistics 2014, is a measure of healthcare......
'At some point you know there is nothing else that you can do for them. You have to just wait and watch them die.' 'Ebola is a highly infectious disease with high mortality. The key point is not to......
Even India's impoverished neighbour Myanmar has emerged as the most generous nation in the world, according to a survey conducted by the UK-based Charities Aid Foundation. India, known for housing......
A young girl with her mother attend a religious mass. Photograph: Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images About one-third of the world’s 'extremely poor' people live in India, according to......
Mid-sized producer Jindal Steel and Power hopes to quadruple steel output by 2016 to cash in on an infrastructure boom in the world's second most populous country and is also in talks to buy mining......
The two decades of our "spectacular economic progress" has side-stepped vast swath of our underprivileged that oscillates between twenty per cent and one-fifth of our population, writes M R......
The fight to end poverty sometimes looks like an industry that depends on the poor's impoverished state for its own survival. Jeffrey Sachs's (noted US economist and Director of the Earth Institute......
IMAGE: Wales' all-time top scorer Gareth Bale came to the rescue, using all his drive and experience to win a penalty against a tiring US defence and then converting it brilliantly to score the......
'More boys drop out of school to pursue football, pinning their hopes on the sport as a way to improve their lives' 'When you combine boys who want to leave Africa and dream of being the next......