In a reply to a question by parliamentarian Ashok Chavan in the Rajya Sabha, the government said that the annual requirement of blood in the country is 14.6 million units, and a total of 14,601,147 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first of its kind report titled Budgets for Justice, it analysed budgets of the 11 states with the highest gross domestic product (or GSDP) with a population of at least 10 million--Andhra Pradesh ...

"They should not have gone that day," said frail Usha Devi, Preeti and Poonam's mother. "They were worried about losing their jobs if they did not go." Since the tragedy, her husband Mahipal and ...

New Delhi: India has amongst the most progressive laws on maternity benefits. But a large majority of India’s workforce is engaged in informal work. Further, the law exempts small firms from having to ...

Ernakulam and Bengaluru: Kartik Naik is in his 40s, and works as a mason’s helper in the Nettoor area, in Kerala’s Ernakulam, where mostly Odia male migrant labourers reside. As polling for his ...