The National Polio immunisation programme, as part of which children in the age group of 0-5 years are administered polio drops, has been deferred "till further notice" by the Centre citing......
Few people have left the kind of imprint on India's advertising canvas as Piyush Pandey.An observer who seemed to know what made the country tick, a man who could find humour in life's everyday......
A boy receives polio vaccine drops at a government children's hospital in Peshawar. Photograph: Fayaz Aziz/Reuters Over 16,000 families in Pakistan refused to vaccinate their children against......
A non-government organisation, National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled has claimed that prolonged imprisonment and inadequate medical care exacerbated pre-existing health issues of former......
In a case of gross negligence, 12 children were administered hand sanitiser drops instead of oral polio vaccine drops in a village in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra, an official said on Monday.......
History shows us that even effective vaccines could have unknown side effects that could develop over time, warns former Cabinet Secetary K M Chandrasekhar. On July 2, the Indian Council of......
Identifying HIV-AIDS and polio as major challenges in the healthcare sector, Finance Minister P Chidambaram proposed to increase the allocation in the 2007-08 Budget for the National Rural Health......
IMAGE: Jaspreet Kaur lifted 101kg to become the first athlete in Khelo India Para Games 2025 to break the national record. Photograph: Khelo India/X Punjab powerlifter Jaspreet Kaur grabbed a......
Jhandu Kumar, who has polio-affected legs since birth, has switched from shot put and discus throw to weightlifting. He has qualified for the World Championship, to be held in Egypt in October. Now......
IMAGE: Punjab's Seema Rani registered a record lift of 97 kg in the women's elite 61 kg category at the Khelo India Para Games 2025. Photograph: SAI Media The fifth day of the Khelo India Para......
India's Bhavina Patel, the silver medallist in the Tokyo edition, entered the quarter-finals of the women's singles class 4 table tennis event at the Paralympics with a 3-0 win over Mexico's......
IMAGE: India's Tokyo Games bronze medal-winning archer Harvinder Singh scored five convincing victories to better the hue of his medal at the Paralympics in Paris on Wednesday. Photograph: Archery......