Population populism: UP draft population bill will impact the vulnerable, especially women

The focus must be on safeguarding women and girls’ reproductive health. Smaller families can be achieved by ensuring gender equality, …

India in talks with Russia on ‘unverified’ COVID-19 vaccine

Indian serostudies do not talk about neutralising antibodies, says ICMR DG  

Has COVID-19 taken the wind out of the sails of India’s school feeding programme

Though the government issued guidelines to states to provide food to all eligible children in March 2020, implementation has been lax

COVID-19 Vaccine Watch: Appeals made for support on proposal regarding intellectual property

If it is adopted on December 16, IP rights on production and supply of COVID-19 tools will be waived off

Ivermectin for COVID-19: Mismatch between global and Indian policies

Union health ministry guidelines say the drug "may be" used for COVID-19 patients even as global agencies don't recommend 

Don’t doubt India’s drug regulator on COVID-19 vaccines: Government

Weekly press meeting also releases details of COVID-19 vaccination; healthcare and frontline workers, seniors to be immunised on priority basis

10 years of Delhi gang rape: 70% of released Nirbhaya Funds utilised, Lok Sabha told

Region-wise disparities in fund utilisation; Conviction rate in crimes against women continues to remain abysmal 

Budget 2023-24: Here are the budgetary allocation trends for key ministries

Budgetary allocation was curtailed or reported marginal increase across key ministries and social schemes  

Decision on emergency authorisation for SII, Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccines deferred

Both manufacturers have been asked for more data before a final decision can be reached  

Lung infections to panic attacks: Those who ‘beat’ COVID-19, but did not recover

Amid studies hinting at long-term impacts of COVID-19 infection, the world, including India, has started monitoring people who recovered from the …

COVID-19: How distant laws, uneven measures afflict sanitation workers

The pandemic has further aggravated the dichotomy of livelihood and safety of sanitation workers 

India’s mysterious diseases: What is NCDC doing?

There is enough evidence to show that National Centre for Disease Control on diseases is not equipped to deal with the country’s …

No community transmission of COVID-19 in India, health ministry repeats

Silent on deadline for Indian COVID-19 vaccine; says human trials yet to take off  

Odisha set to introduce locally produced millets into ICDS, PDS

Keonjhar district will introduce ragi for pre-school meals through DMF funds from July 

Use of contraceptives in Bihar doubles in 5 years: NFHS-5

Female sterilisation was the most common method of contraception in the state

Kerala sees sharp fall in sex ratio at birth despite being best in overall category

Bihar and Maharashtra are other major states where sex ratio at birth declined 

Marginal improvement in rural women’s education, finds NFHS-5

Social, cultural stigmas reasons for lack of improvement 

As told to Parliament (March 17, 2023): Over 44 million cases of COVID-19 confirmed in India

All that was discussed in the House through the day

India’s sex ratio improves, but 9 million girls went ‘missing’ in last 2 decades to foeticide

Wealth, education and fertility are the key factors behind improvement

Ventilators for COVID-19: Crisis looms in several states even after 50,000 allocated

More than 7,000 of the Centre-allocated ventilators are lying idle 

India reports 21 cases of COVID sub-variant JN.1, now a WHO ‘variant of interest’

We need to be on the alert, but there is no need to panic, says Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya

Over half of prescribed antibiotics in India can lead to AMR, finds National Centre for Disease Control

High use of antibiotics found; recommends defined policies and monitoring consumption

Male birth control options are in development, but a number of barriers still stand in the way

There has not been a new form of male birth control since no-scalpel vasectomy in 1980s

More Indians covered by health insurance but overall percentage still low: NHFS-5

Andhra Pradesh recorded the highest coverage but a decrease since last survey

Govt neither denies nor accepts adverse event in Serum Institute COVID-19 vaccine trial

Health secretary claims all procedures followed but refuses to divulge details