Health & Sanitation

Women’s health in India is grappling, as India is home to one of the largest numbers of iron-deficiency women in the world, and more than half (51%) of all women of reproductive age having Anaemia. According to a study published in the medical journal BMJ Global Health, Improving women’s education of iron deficiency can be...

An analysis of disclosures by listed companies reveals that the share of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) is a negligible 0.46 per cent of their employee base. What’s more, PwD representation in these companies has dropped — it was 0.47 per cent last year. Today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Over the years,...

Just like every corporate feels the need to contribute to the society as a responsibility, CredAble spent time with the children, adults & elderly at the Cerebral Palsy Association of India (CPAI).  CredAble – a supply chain investment bank, partnered with the CPAI to contribute to the journey of differently abled. All the employees at...

In continuation of its commitment to make India TB free, Mission TB free Haryana, a flagship initiative of Medanta in collaboration with the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Central TB Division of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India and the Government of Haryana today launched ‘’TB Free Block Pataudi’’ to improve the...

यहां हम ये सवाल बिलकुल नहीं करेंगे कि ट्रिलियन में कितने जीरो होते है लेकिन ये जरूर पूछेंगे कि देश के प्रधानमंत्री ट्रिलियन इकोनॉमी का सपना तो देख रहे लेकिन ये क्यों भूल जाते है कि अगर हमारा भविष्य ही कुपोषित रहेगा तो हमारा अस्तित्व ही क्या होगा, देश में करोड़ों रुपये व्यारे न्यारे...

On National Epilepsy Day, November 17, 2019, a consortium of 5 nationally renowned psychiatrists from the states of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, came on board for a campaign to bring awareness among the common people through Facebook for Epilepsy management. An initiative by Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd which was spread across three days aggregated a total...

महाराष्ट्र में सियासी घमासान जारी है, देवेंद्र फड़नवीस फिलहाल अल्पमत की सरकार के सरदार है या उनके पास पूर्ण बहुमत है ये अभी तक सिद्ध नहीं हो पाया है, सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने भी इसपर अभी तक कोई फैसला नहीं किया है लेकिन इस बीच महाराष्ट्र के मुख्यमंत्री ने अपना पदभार मंत्रालय पहुंचकर संभाल लिया...

Our county has become synonymous with three things: Culture, diversity and jugaad. As Indians, we know how to find ways to get things done and often take shortcuts. However, the one area where we should avoid this jugaad is nutrition. There is no shortcut to good health. Nutrition affects the overall development of not only...

LIXIL, maker of pioneering water and housing products, has partnered with Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) to host Global Sanitation Economy Summit in Pune, India. With a vision to provide safe sanitation to 100 mn people across the world by 2025; LIXIL along with TBC has committed to draw attention to people in rural and...

On the occasion of World Toilet Day, Geneva-based Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) is hosting the Global Sanitation Economic Summit in Pune, India, from November 18, 2019, to November 21, 2019. The summit will provide business, investment and sanitation leaders at the forefront of the global Sanitation Economy with a platform to deliberate upon Sanitation...

दुनिया के सबसे अमीर कारोबारी और माइक्रोसॉफ्ट के सह-संस्थापक बिल गेट्स इन दिनों भारत के दौरे पर आये है, भारत दौरे बिल गेट्स देश के सबसे पिछड़े राज्य बिहार भी गए, उसके बाद देश के प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी से मुलाकात किये, मंत्रियों से भी मिले, इन सभी मुलाकातों में बिल गेट्स ना सिर्फ भारत...

“Access to water was always an issue for us. Treading miles and for hours in a day to meet our water requirement was a daily routine. It would lead to my seven-year-old daughter missing school often to help me out,” laments Vasanti Belsare, a 32-year-old resident from Bhandri village in Maharashtra. Millions of rural...