Health & Sanitation
Sports Stadiums: The Waste Generation Hubs?
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...
A Continuous Deterioration In Healthcare, For How Long?
Healthcare has been a major concern for the rural sector in the country. Access to medical help in cases of emergencies is an issue...
NTPC Gives Funds To Construct Toilets
As part of their CSR activity, NTPC officials handed out cheques of Rs 4000 to the people of 46th division in the presence of...
Falling Hunger Rank Sees Relief Initiation in Haryana
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...
Aster Gives Liver Patients New Lease Of Life
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...
DPS Students Raise Funds To Provide Sight To Elderly People
What can be a bigger gift than the gift of sight? Unfortunately, millions of elderly people lose this precious gift due to a lack...
Government To Launch 25 Projects For Mental Health Care
The government had worked on healthcare projects for mental wellbeing of the citizens, along with Indian Council of Medical Research and the World Health...
Building Communities, Building Nations
Imagine the generic scenario of a farmer in a rustic corner of India. He lives on a small farm in a remote tribal village,...
Government To Set Up 49 Cancer Centres
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 Indicates At Full Immunisation Coverage
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.
Government Asks Companies To Allocate 7% Of CSR Funds To Swachhta Hi Seva
The government has asked companies to devote a portion of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds to a cleanliness campaign launched on Friday by...
Breast Cancer Can Be Fought Only Through Awareness
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, India is likely to have more than 17.3 lakh new cases of cancer and over 8.8 lakh deaths due to the disease by 2020.