Health & Sanitation

The Kerala government has taken an ambitious step in the sphere of menstrual hygiene. The state will provide free sanitary napkins to all girls...

HCL Technology’s corporate social responsibility arm HCL Foundation would pump in Rs 110 crore into a village located in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi district. The funds will be utilised for the...

When the Indian cricket team is playing against a rival, the only priority for the entire country is the team’s victory. The spectators in...

Healthcare has been a major concern for the rural sector in the country. Access to medical help in cases of emergencies is an issue...

As part of their CSR activity, NTPC officials handed out cheques of Rs 4000 to the people of 46th division in the presence of...

The recently announced Global Hunger Index (GHI-2017) is indeed an alarm bell for India. The country ranked 97 in GHI-2016 but has slipped to...

Every year, over 2,000 children require organ transplants in the country, but only 100 can afford it, which highlights the big requirement in the...

What can be a bigger gift than the gift of sight? Unfortunately, millions of elderly people lose this precious gift due to a lack...

The government had worked on healthcare projects for mental wellbeing of the citizens, along with Indian Council of Medical Research and the World Health...

Imagine the generic scenario of a farmer in a rustic corner of India. He lives on a small farm in a remote tribal village,...

Central and state governments are planning to set up 49 cancer centres in 3 years, all across the country. These will be added to the already functioning 39 cancer centres.

NFHS-4 states that throughout the country, children within the age of 12-23 months have been fully immunised for BCG, measles and 3 doses of polio each. There was an increase in the coverage of vaccines for DPT by 18%, from the last health survey.