Social worker Manonit Ravi says it has been “living hell” enduring the pollution in his village in India’s Singrauli region, where residents regularly battle the effects of toxic ash from…
The fire at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of State-government-run Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, on November 15, which tragically claimed the lives of 10…
This year marked the 50th anniversary of the Hindi film Aap Ki Kasam, J. Om Prakash’s directorial debut starring Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, and Sanjeev Kumar in an unconventional romantic drama.…
Cannabis being grown in controlled conditions in CSIR-IIIM, Jammu. | Photo Credit: HIRRA AZMAT Cannabis grows in vast swathes of Jammu and Kashmir naturally, as in many other parts of…
Congress leader Dharamvira Gandhi, a second-term Lok Sabha member from Patiala and medical professional, has renewed the push for the decriminalisation of organic intoxicants such as opium, “bukki” (sawdust produced…
For a decade now, the Bengaluru-based Great Legalisation Movement India (GLM India) has been championing the cause of farmers cultivating cannabis and campaigning for legalising the drug that it claims…
The consultant obstetrician-gynaecologist says there is, at present, a poor system of procuring drugs and medical equipment for the public health system in India. | Photo Credit: By Special Arrangement…
Junior doctors protest in Kolkata against bail granted to former Tala Police Station OC Abhijit Mondal and ex-RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh in the RG Kar rape-murder case,…
As a nation and as a population, India shares with its South and South-East Asian neighbours the legacy of a heavy public health burden shaped by a common historical past.…
After two cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) were recently reported in Karnataka as part of routine surveillance by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), citizens across the country fear…
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