Health

New Delhi, July 23 : Fortis Healthcare is organising a psychology quiz competition open to all students across India with a top prize money of Rs one lakh.Students can get themselves registered online for ‘PSYCH-ED’ through the website of Fortis Heal…

New Delhi, July 23 : A bill that provides for supersession of the Central Council of Homeopathy and constituting a Board of Governors was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday.The Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018 was introduced by A…

New Delhi, July 23 : An institute, set up with the support of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has started an initiative to train rag-pickers how to segregate garbage and to get the best price for things collected by them.Around 2,000 rag-p…

Mumbai, July 23 : Actress-producer Anushka Sharma, who turned vegetarian over three years ago, says it is one of the best decisions she has made.She stars in a new campaign for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India that proclaims, …

New Delhi, July 22 : Women politicians, cutting across party lines, have welcomed the government’s decision on scrapping GST on sanitary napkins.Reactions flowed in from many women politicians after Finance minister Piyush Goyal announced that sanita…

Bareilly, July 22 : Fourteen-month-old Ayush smiles as he plays in his mother’s lap at the anganwadi centre in Bhandaria village in Uttar Pradesh.Eight months ago he was a severely undernourished and underweight child born to a frail mother. It has b…

Kolkata, July 21 : Students of the 183-year-old Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata – on hunger strike since July 10 seeking accommodation in a new hostel – on Saturday found support from thespian Soumitra Chatterjee, who condemned the authorities …

New Delhi, July 21 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described Sri Lanka as India’s special and trusted friend in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region while assuring New Delhi’s continued development aid cooperation with the island nation…

New Delhi, July 21 : Sanitary napkins will be exempt from GST, Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said on Saturday after a meeting of the GST Council.Sanitary napkins are taxed 12 per cent tax under the one-year old GST regime, which att…

New Delhi, July 20 : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday rejected officials’ reports questioning feasibility of various ‘mohalla clinics’ after inspected the proposed sites and terming them viable.Kejriwal, along with Health Minister Satye…