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 ...

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

As heatwaves intensify, informal women workers are losing income, productivity, and protection—while policy response struggles to catch up ...

Under a fifth of the Union budget is allocated to the social sector, and infra-heavy schemes such as affordable housing and rural roads are leaving money unspent ...

The Union health budget is up 9% since the current year. Yet many Indians continue to avoid public healthcare facilities ...

Mumbai: What does one look for when counting India’s tigers? How do you recognise different signs? What to do if you encounter a wild animal? India’s tiger census, formally known as the All India ...

Mumbai: Winter air pollution in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) caught the country’s attention as early as October. Just last week, the government revoked stage III of the graded action ...

Pune: Only one in 10 Indians exercised on a given day in 2024, according to the Time Use Survey by the National Statistics Office (NSO). Exercise participation has increased since 2019, when 5.7% ...

Chennai: In a large yard in southern Chennai, within earshot of honking vehicles on the busy highway nearby, a worker in safety gear deftly sorts the construction rubble on a moving conveyor ...