A potentially virulent and distinct strain of the swine-flu virus that continues to kill and panic people appears to...

A national scheme to supply rural India with safe water is one of eight centrally-sponsored schemes that New Delhi will...

More than 90% of treatments for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia--the leading causes of death among Indian...

Earlier this week, the Shani mandir—dedicated to Shani Dev, a Hindu god who wards off evil—in Jaipur’s Janta Colony saw...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 'Mann Ki Baat' radio speech last month, envisaged the creation of a...

The findings of an observational population-based study have indicated that cancer may be yet another disease to add to...

The death of 11 women during a sterilisation camp that went wrong in Chhattisgarh has brought back the topic of...