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96% of J&K Swachh-Bharat Money Unspent
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) at the launch of the Swacch Bharat (Clean India) Mission in New Delhi on October...
Stopping India’s #1 Killer Is Up to Indians
A man stretching near the Arabian Sea in Mumbai. 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day could cut your risk of heart...
Diabetes: The Epidemic That Indians Created
A villager in rural Karnataka having his blood tested at a diabetes screening camp. Image: Flickr/Trinity Care...
Stealthily, Smoke Kills 1 in 8 Indians
Breathing doesn’t come easy to Asgar Ali Siddique, 45, a Mumbai resident, especially if he walks fast or climbs...
How Cancer Has India In Its Grip
Amit Vaidya is lucky to have survived cancer twice. Cancer killed 0.7 million Indians in 2012, up from 0.26 million in...
India’s Speedy--And Ominous--Disease Transition
A cancer patient getting treatment in a hospital in Kolkata. An Indian today has over twice the odds of dying...
Filthy Facilities Imperil Bihar’s Sterilised Women
Women at a healthcare facility which was part of a study on female sterilisation in Eastern Bihar. Women...

1 Laboratory For 8.8 Million, As India Faces Food-Safety Crisis
Faced with a growing food- and water-contamination crisis, India has only 148 food-testing laboratories. In...





