Rural Health Minister

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is widely expected to announce 10% to 12% increase in budget allocations for health, education and rural projects, helped by a pick up in tax collections.

Government says such mobile labs will promote last-mile testing access in rural & inaccessible areas of India.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday launched India''s first mobile laboratory for COVID-19 testing in rural and inaccessible areas of India.

India has 11,933 coronavirus cases, including 392 deaths, according to the latest figures from the Union Health Ministry. 39 people have died and 1,118 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours alone. The government has issued fresh guidelines for the lockdown, which has been extended till May 3, allowing some industries in rural areas to be re...

On the day of Gandhi Jayanti, rural Nagaland was declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) today. The formal declaration was made by Public Health Engineering (PHE) Minister Jacob Zhimomi during a function on the Swachhata Diwas.

Ten deaths have been confirmed in Kerala from the Nipah virus and two persons are critical, the state government said on Tuesday. The infection is believed to have started with a family in Kozhikode, in which two brothers and another woman have died. Officials say around 94 people have been quarantined inside their homes. Some nine people are under...

Contract workers of the government funded National Rural Health Mission, or NRHM in Rajasthan, who were arrested earlier and later released on bail earlier this month in Rajasthan after they allegedly raised black flags and protested at an event where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was attending, claim they were threatened and targeted by the authori...

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said he was "worried" about the "fiscal arithmetic" of the Union budget and wondered how the government was planning to meet its promises. In the last full budget before next year's general election, the focus has been on agriculture and rural sectors. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced a new h...

With national polls looming next year -- and possibly as early as late 2018 -- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has rolled out a budget designed to help distressed farmers and rural areas while boosting growth, jobs and private investment.

As Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rolled out a Budget focused on farmers and the rural poor today, while boosting jobs and private investment, he has pegged the fiscal deficit target for next year at 3.3 per cent, higher than the earlier 3 per cent goal. Presenting the government's last full-year budget before the 2019 general elections and ahead of...

Union Health Minister JP Nadda today said the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) was "being implemented" in Tamil Nadu also and asked the state government to consider giving reservation to rural students.

Way back in 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had famously and inextricably linked poverty and environmental pollution at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled a budget for the poor on Monday, announcing new rural aid and health programmes in a strategy shift that could boost his ruling party in coming state elections.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled what was quickly called a budget for farmers and the poor on Monday, announcing a string of farm measures, rural aid and health programmes.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled a budget for the poor on Monday, announcing new rural aid and health programmes in a strategy shift that could boost his ruling party in coming state elections.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is widely expected to announce 10% to 12% increase in budget allocations for health, education and rural projects, helped by a pick up in tax collections.

Government says such mobile labs will promote last-mile testing access in rural & inaccessible areas of India.

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday launched India''s first mobile laboratory for COVID-19 testing in rural and inaccessible areas of India.

India has 11,933 coronavirus cases, including 392 deaths, according to the latest figures from the Union Health Ministry. 39 people have died and 1,118 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours alone. The government has issued fresh guidelines for the lockdown, which has been extended till May 3, allowing some industries in rural areas to be re...

On the day of Gandhi Jayanti, rural Nagaland was declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) today. The formal declaration was made by Public Health Engineering (PHE) Minister Jacob Zhimomi during a function on the Swachhata Diwas.

Ten deaths have been confirmed in Kerala from the Nipah virus and two persons are critical, the state government said on Tuesday. The infection is believed to have started with a family in Kozhikode, in which two brothers and another woman have died. Officials say around 94 people have been quarantined inside their homes. Some nine people are under...

Contract workers of the government funded National Rural Health Mission, or NRHM in Rajasthan, who were arrested earlier and later released on bail earlier this month in Rajasthan after they allegedly raised black flags and protested at an event where Prime Minister Narendra Modi was attending, claim they were threatened and targeted by the authori...

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said he was "worried" about the "fiscal arithmetic" of the Union budget and wondered how the government was planning to meet its promises. In the last full budget before next year's general election, the focus has been on agriculture and rural sectors. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has announced a new h...

With national polls looming next year -- and possibly as early as late 2018 -- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has rolled out a budget designed to help distressed farmers and rural areas while boosting growth, jobs and private investment.

As Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rolled out a Budget focused on farmers and the rural poor today, while boosting jobs and private investment, he has pegged the fiscal deficit target for next year at 3.3 per cent, higher than the earlier 3 per cent goal. Presenting the government's last full-year budget before the 2019 general elections and ahead of...

Union Health Minister JP Nadda today said the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) was "being implemented" in Tamil Nadu also and asked the state government to consider giving reservation to rural students.

Way back in 1972, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had famously and inextricably linked poverty and environmental pollution at the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled a budget for the poor on Monday, announcing new rural aid and health programmes in a strategy shift that could boost his ruling party in coming state elections.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled what was quickly called a budget for farmers and the poor on Monday, announcing a string of farm measures, rural aid and health programmes.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled a budget for the poor on Monday, announcing new rural aid and health programmes in a strategy shift that could boost his ruling party in coming state elections.