Heart Under Attack: A new study links exposure to air pollutants to cardiovascular diseases

July 26, 2022

A recent study undertaken in West Bengal by Climate Trends and IIT Delhi shows a higher prevalence of upper and...

Smartphone addiction leading to health disorders in rural India

June 24, 2022

Mobile phone addiction among children is becoming common in the rural parts of the country where users of the internet...

Their farmland turned barren due to polluting effluent, villagers in UP’s Mirzapur to boycott polls

February 10, 2022

Phase one of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh gets underway. But in Jagapatti village of Mirzapur, the inhabitants say...

Not only COVID-19 but its medical waste also threatening human health

February 8, 2022

As the health sector expedites its response to COVID-19 pandemic, tonnes of medical waste including gloves, medical masks, testing kits,...

Notorious for brewing hooch and seething alcoholism, Chainpurva now sleeps peacefully

January 30, 2022

Infamous for brewing illegal liquor, and where alcohol addiction and domestic violence was commonplace, Chainpurva village in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh,...

If children could vote: In poll-bound UP, high malnourishment but 66% POSHAN funds unutilised

January 29, 2022

With 41% of under-5 rural kids stunted and 33% underweight, government after government in Uttar Pradesh has made several changes...

Madhya Pradesh: Deprived of a road, villagers forced to carry patients’ cot for 4 KM to reach health centres

January 13, 2022

Distant health centres coupled with the lack of a road trouble rural residents in Madhya Pradesh’s Panna district who have...

COVID19 vaccines ‘may need to be updated’: WHO body

January 12, 2022

A technical advisory group established by WHO suggests the current COVID19 vaccines need to elicit immune responses that are “broad,...

Omicron outbreak: ‘Hospitalisation rate 5%-10% but situation ‘dynamic’, may change rapidly’

January 10, 2022

Today, the country recorded 1,79,723 fresh COVID19 cases, increasing the active caseload to 723,619. The daily positivity rate stood at...

Abstinence for a month is all it took Babuji to quit alcohol forever

January 9, 2022

As part of a series on raising awareness against the harmful effects of alcohol, here’s the story of Babuji who...