The health ministry on Friday assured all possible help to the 23-year-old gang-rape victim for her advanced treatment, including organ transplant.
Samridhi Bhardwaj analyses the dynamics of duty-free liquor allowance in India.
The father of Savita Halappanavar has appealed to the Irish government to hold a public inquiry into his daughter's death, claiming her family was not happy with the probe so far.
'Why should the state and Centre fight?'
They not only stitch the double-pocket shirts but also design and attach the trademark emblems on its sleeves.
It would be the biggest Conservative victory since 1987, the poll suggests.
Observing that doctors are harassed by authorities on pretext of not following norms laid down for imposing ban on sex determination tests, the Bombay high court has quashed a complaint in a lower court against a doctor couple in Beed district of Maharashtra.
The Human Development Index in the country rose by 21 per cent, according to a report which cautions that health, nutrition and sanitation remain the key challenges for India.
Even as Central Bureau of Investigation investigators were busy unfolding the much talked about National Rural Health Mission scam in Uttar Pradesh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday pointedly blamed the Mayawati government for large scale swindling of the Rs 9000 crore given to the state for augmentation of health services for the poor and the downtrodden across the state's vast rural expanse under the program.
Amid shocking visuals of ward boys playing doctors in a hospital in Bulandshahar, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday "removed" the Chief Medical Superintendent and suspended a ward boy. "The ward boy, who was putting stitches, has been suspended and the CMS has been removed," said Health Minister Ahmad Hasan.
In a bid to rebuild the image of her Labor party, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday asked her two scandal-tainted Members of Parliament, including the speaker of the Parliament, to quit the party.
In the travel advisory, the Health Ministry again asked people to refrain from travelling to China in view of the coronavirus outbreak in its Hubei province and said travellers on return from the neighbouring country could be quarantined.
Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot said the manifesto was prepared after taking opinions through multiple platforms such as social media.
In absence of drinking water and electricity during the mid-May summer, life in the coastal districts remained derailed even four days after the calamity.
'Most of the cases in Mumbai are asymptomatic -- 85 per cent you can say.' 'Only 10 to 15 per cent are symptomatic.'
Two persons, who tested positive for H1N1, died in Kerala even as 14 more swine flu cases have been reported, officials said on Sunday.
'This is a long haul, god knows where it will end.' 'So it is best to conserve all the funds right now for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.'
Three more infants died at the Malda Sadar Hospital in West Bengal on Wednesday after being referred in critical condition from other district hospitals, taking the death toll in recent spell to 31.
Voters gave Johnson the huge mandate so that he can get the UK out of the European Union by January -- no ifs, no buts.
The doctors treating SARS suspects or patients will use the Defence Research Development Organisation made Nuclear-Biological-Chemical weapon masks.
Health services returned to normal in Rajasthan on Sunday with government doctors resuming their duties across the state after the end of their 11-day stir.
'In this spirit of camaraderie between professional and non-professional football, we have decided, as a team, to give up part of our Euro 2020 qualification prize money.'
You seem determined to go down in history, which ever ministry you are given. I thank the Gods that they did not give you defense. I believe you would have started the mother of all wars.
An ardent backer of Brexit, Boris Johnson has a reputation for brashness, bombast, bending the truth, and really bad hair, which has earned him more than a few comparisons to United States President Donald Trump (who also happens to be a fan of his). Here are some interesting facts about BoJo, as he is called by the British media.
It is no longer an individual's problem, but one that organisations need to take cognisance of and build into their diversity and people management policies and practices.
These things are cheaper than equivalent branded drugs, to patients, says Modi
The services of three lab technicians of the blood bank attached to a government hospital at Sattur, near Virudhunagar, have been terminated,Health Minister C Vijayabaskar said Wednesday.
The 'world's fattest man', a Briton, is so large that he is bed-ridden but still devours eight hotdogs for breakfast and needs 18 caretakers to keep him alive.
Root cause of mental health issues in adults is their workplace environment!
On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 - gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he thinks of the changes he encounters in his motherland.
All goods and services have been put in slabs of 5%, 12%, 18% and 28%
After boycotting work for 24 hours to protest the killing of a doctor by prisoners at Gopalganj jail, members of Bihar Health Services Association on Wednesday resumed work at government hospitals across the state.
Notwithstanding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's warning of strict action if work is not resumed, the junior doctors carried on with their agitation.
'The current crisis is one of incomes, driven by poor job growth, agrarian distress and poor investment sentiment,' notes Harsh Pati Singhania, director, JK Organisation.
From India's fight against COVID-19 to China face-off, Kovind spoke on several issues during the televised address.
Experts have warned that the pressure to look like a male model is driving more men to develop dangerous eating disorders.
The centre has rushed a team of medical experts to take stock of the situation thrown up by the spread of H1N1 influenza situation in Kashmir
Nurses from India and other non-European countries employed with Britain's state-funded National Health Service could be forced to leave the UK under new immigration rules.
In a startling revelation, a former Cricket Australia employee, on Monday, alleged she was sacked because she campaigned for improved abortion rights and criticised the state government on social media.
After a month-long halt due to the violent clashes in Jammu and Kashmir, Medecins Sans Frontieres, an international medical humanitarian organisation, has resumed its activities in the Valley.
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