Health

New Delhi, July 9 : The Supreme Court on Monday said all private hospitals in the national capital, which were given land on concessional rate, must provide free treatment to certain percentage of poor patients.Providing treatment to the poor was one…

Kolkata, July 8 : The Narcotics Control Bureau on Sunday arrested two persons at the international airport here for carrying 11 kg of ‘ganja’ or cannabis, a senior NCB official said.According to the official, the two accused were stopped by the CISF …

Shimla, July 8 : With over 110 confirmed dengue cases reported in less than a week from the town of Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, a central team is reaching there to deal with the situation, officials said on Sunday.However, no death has been reporte…

Book: Too Many Men Too Few Women; Edited by: Ravinder Kaur; Publisher: Orient Blackswan; Pages: 340; Price: Rs 925 Much of the scholarly work on adverse sex ratios or gender imbalance until now has primarily focussed on the identification, patterns and…

New Delhi, July 8 : Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen said the lack of attention on social sectors had taken a “quantum jump in the wrong direction” since the BJP came to power and that despite the visible prominence of backwardness in India, the p…

New Delhi, July 7 : Two girls were hospitalised here on Saturday after eating the mid-day meal served in their school.The vendor was booked after police received a complaint from the principal.Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia visited the MC…

Chennai, July 7 : Indian Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Saturday eye ailment is a major problem amongst the children in this country.Inaugurating the 32nd Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery Convention 2018 here Naidu said: “It is no…

Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra), July 7 : Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday inaugurated the second world-class super-speciality healthcare facility of the Reliance Hospital headed by Tina Ambani.This is the second venture of the Reli…

Chennai, July 7 : Rather than banning the sale of syringes without a doctor’s prescription to prevent drug abuse, it will be better if the government hastens the switch over to auto-disable syringes, said a senior medical devices industry official.He…

New Delhi, July 7 : Two girls were hospitalised here on Saturday after eating the mid-day meal served in their school, police said.Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Pankaj Kumar Singh said that the two students of classes seven and eight at MCD Pr…