Pune: One in four water samples collected from India’s household tap connections did not meet microbiological standards, according to a 2024 assessment of the Jal Jeevan Mission. While 76% of samples ...

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India has about 2.5 million people living with cancer and around 100 million people with rare diseases, many of whom require medicines that fall outside insurance coverage and price control ...

As heatwaves intensify, informal women workers are losing income, productivity, and protection—while policy response struggles to catch up ...

Medicines account for 70% of out-of-pocket health spending, often pushing millions of Indians into, or deeper into, poverty ...

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi: Santosh Kumar, 44, rides his bicycle slowly, his swollen leg dragging awkwardly behind him with each turn of the pedal. A mason from Har Singh Dev ka Purwa in ...

Pune: Only one in 10 Indians exercised on a given day in 2024, according to the Time Use Survey by the National Statistics Office (NSO). Exercise participation has increased since 2019, when 5.7% ...

Mumbai: Winter air pollution in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) caught the country’s attention as early as October. Just last week, the government revoked stage III of the graded action ...

Mumbai: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced a Rs 1.06 lakh crore health budget for 2026-27, a 9% increase from the current financial year. Yet persistent gaps in utilisation, staffing ...

New Delhi: India’s social sector budget as a share of the gross domestic product is now second lowest in over a decade, and lower even than 2014-15, when the Narendra Modi government presented its ...

Mumbai: What does one look for when counting India’s tigers? How do you recognise different signs? What to do if you encounter a wild animal? India’s tiger census, formally known as the All India ...