Health

After Baby, an Unraveling

A Case Study in Maternal Mental Illness A few months after Cindy Wachenheim gave birth to the child she had long dreamed of, she became convinced that she had caused her son i...

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Free check up for Foot and Mouth Disease in Punjab

The Punjab government on Monday instructed Animal Husbandry Department to provide free vaccination to check the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in the state and asked...

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Govt Successful in Reducing Maternal Mortality Rate

The Health Department is moving ahead with action plans which have been envisaged to cut down the maternal mortality ratio in the state to 40 per 1,000, Health Minister V S Si...

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Mosquito-borne virus shows polio-like symptoms

Two months after the country earned its polio-free tag, a mosquito has emerged as a fresh concern. Mosquito-borne West Nile virus has been found to be causing acute flaccid pa...

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City drinking water not fit for human consumption

Thirty-five out of 62 water samples collected in last three days have been found unfit for drinking. This also includes six out 20 water samples collected from different city ...

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Malaria deaths put Tripura on alert

At least 17 people died and several hundred were admitted to rural hospitals as malaria gripped tribal hamlets in remote Dhalai district in Tripura. Health Minister Badal Chou...

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Scientists make DNA barcode of malaria parasite

An international team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom, has identified segments in the DNA of malaria-causing parasite ...

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High-risk wards for maternal care in govt hospitals: Khader

The department of health and family welfare will set up high-risk wards in taluk and district hospitals across the state to mitigate risks during delivery. While five wards wi...

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Bihar initiates PPP model cancer treatment

Modern oncology centre with all treatment and diagnosis facilities envisaged in Patna Medical College in first phase Bihar has initiated an ambitious cancer treatment plan und...

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Will global polio eradication miss yet another deadline?

When the world embarked on polio eradication 26 years back, the goal was to complete that task by the year 2000. That target was not met, nor did the two deadlines set after t...

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SAFAR MEIN SHAHAR: CITY AS CHARACTER

Film critic Utpal Datta explores Mazhar Q. Kamran’s Safar Mein Shahar, examining h...

March 7 2026

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FACTOR

Writer Ranjan Das Gupta reflects on emotional intelligence as a human, ethical and socia...

March 6 2026

A LAST CALL FOR THE PLANET

In this in-depth conversation with Vinta Nanda, Fr. Kureethadam Joshtrom reflects on eco...

March 5 2026