Health

Health Policy Focuses On Expanding Access, Quality: Secy

Expanding access of medical facilities, reducing treatment costs and improving quality are the three major objectives of the recently-released National Health Policy, a top go...

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Parliament Passes Bill That Decriminalises Suicide Attempt By Mentally ill People

Parliament today passed a bill that seeks to decriminalise suicide attempt by mentally ill people and provides for the right to better healthcare for people suffering from. 'T...

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Superpower Dreams: On How India Must Respond To A Low HDI Rank

India’s rank of 131 among 188 countries on the UNDP’s Human Development Index for 2015 and its ‘medium’ performance pose the uncomfortable question: wo...

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Five Reasons Why ‘National Health Policy 2017’ Is A Step In The Right Direction

As we analyse the Indian policy discourse, we find that healthcare financing and service delivery continues to stand out as an exception. Not only does it remain to be one of ...

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Why India Needs More Male Health Workers To Tackle The Maternal Health Crisis

Female health workers are the primary drivers of maternal health initiatives, but male health workers (MHWs) could complement their services significantly, according to this 2...

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Health Alert: India Has 25% Of The World’s Tuberculosis Patients

An urban tuberculosis case infects more individuals per year while a similar case in rural area remains infectious for longer period, a new research has found. India bears the...

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Dirty Air And Water Increase Cradle Deaths In India

If this does not wake us up what will? The World Health Organization (WHO) has pressed the alarm exposing that children below five years are at the highest risk from filthy ai...

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Common Blood Tests Can Help Predict Chronic Disease Risk

A score based on common blood tests may someday help people gauge their risk of developing a chronic disease like diabetes or dementia within three years of taking the test. T...

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Melinda Gates, Co-Chair & Trustee, Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation: Family Planning Voices

It’s no accident that I waited to have my first child until I’d finished graduate school, devoted a decade to my career, and decided with Bill that we were ready t...

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How To Prepare For A Pandemic

No matter how you slice it, outbreaks are becoming more common. Overseas, there's been Ebola, Zika and yellow fever. And here at home, we're seeing a surge in tick-borne disea...

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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