Jharkhand: Farmers wait through the night to apply for drought relief scheme

Server glitches mar application process for compensation scheme announced by state government

How to cure corruption in healthcare

Rx: Only an effective governing body, which includes medical and non-medical members, can stop the culture of kickbacks

Bitter harvest: farmers kill selves

Freak weather destroys crops across India

Jan Dhan Yojana: the fineprint Modi did not disclose

Kin of accident victim denied insurance amount for not using RuPay debit card and carrying out at least one financial transaction

`Many doctors are simply businessmen'

Samiran Nundy, chairperson of the department of surgical gastroenterology and organ transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and editor-in-chief …

Free trade will bind India

‘We'll improve mass rapid transport, tap solar power'

Harsh Vardhan, who has served as Delhi health minister and is the man behind the Pulse Polio campaign, is the chief ministerial candidate of the …

Why no cover for mental illness? Supreme Court asks Centre, regulator

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death brings issue back in focus

Standard treatment guidelines soon

 Will help streamline treatment procedures across government hospitals

Farmers want support

Say they are more vulnerable due to erratic weather

Programme to insure Pacific island nations against natural disasters enters third season

The insurance cover is provided against earthquakes, tsunamis, and risk of tropical cyclones

Is UN giving in to industry?

UN adopts resolution to fight chronic lifestyle diseases, without targets or commitments

Elderly & lonely

India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. While the government seems …

Trouble for state health insurance schemes in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh

Private hospitals threaten to discontinue treating patients

The weather mart

Met department is not the only one predicting weather in India. Forecasts are now sold by businesses to businesses

LIC’s unhealthy choice

Life Insurance Corporation invested more than Rs 3,500 crore last year in the tobacco industry 

Government considering pumping funds into Maheshwar dam

LIC expresses interest in funding project even as increased capital costs make power from the project too expensive

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Flat in 20 days

Global climatic anomalies allied with local weather conditions produced the most freakish hailstorms in central and north India in February and …

Universal health scare

The country’s planners are debating how to provide healthcare to all. In a drastic shift from the 65-year-old public health system, the …

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