Jharkhand’s blood banks scarcely organise blood donation camps, lack manpower and adequate testing facilities, records have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Visakhapatnam: Every summer, millions of Indians in informal work lose income they cannot afford to lose. They work slower in extreme heat, take unpaid sick days, or stop work entirely when ...

Mumbai: As India’s mobile phone ownership increases, the country’s digital divide is showing up not in usage but in the digital skills that her citizens possess in order to leverage the devices, data ...

Mumbai: Indian cities and towns produce about 72,368 million litres of sewage per day (MLD)--enough to fill 30,000 Olympic-size swimming pools--but has the operational capacity to treat only 37% of it ...

New Delhi: Each evening, as daylight fades behind the rising mounds of the Bhalswa landfill, 26-year-old Paro leaves behind the mohalla’s evening chatter and hurries back to her one-room home in ...

Bengaluru: The five south Indian states--Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala and Tamil Nadu--in that order, ranked the best among India’s 16 large and mid-sized states on justice delivery, ...

Pune: Between 2018 and 2022, suicides in India linked to mental health rose 44%, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Three in five such suicides were reported among the 18- to ...