Written By Snigdha Basu

In election season, crores of households across India are receiving a personalised letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his flagship health insurance plan under the Ayushman Bharat - PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), the largest government-funded healthcare programme, touches the 100-day mark.

Climate change is making more people vulnerable to heat exposure and air pollution in India leading to one lakh premature deaths and 7 per cent reduction in country's labour force, the researchers said in an analysis in The Lancet medical journal.

A scuffle over the right to play in a playground turned fatal for 8-year-old Aseem, a student of the Darul Uloom Faridiya madrasa in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar. On Thursday, Aseem and his friends, all of them students, were playing in the madrasa premises when a group of neighbourhood children aged 10-12 years, attacked them. Soon a scuffle broke ...

India's anti-polio programme got a jolt recently after it was found that some vaccines made by a Ghaziabad-based firm were found to contain the P2 virus strain. The company, BioMed, is one of the four domestic suppliers of polio vaccines to the government-run polio immunisation programme.

The wife of the Delhi sewage worker urged she wants to educate her three children. As of 10 AM on September 19, over Rs 48 lakh had been crowdfunded for Anil's family.

The Delhi State Cancer Institute - the only government-run cancer hospital in the state - will reserve 80 per cent of free services for people from the state, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced. At present, only 40 per cent of the people getting treated at the hospital are Delhi residents.

Sharath Koppu, the Indian student killed in a shooting in the US, tried to run away from an armed robber when he was shot in the back, witnesses at the restaurant where he worked, told NDTV.

Rising temperature and climatic changes could be a substantial threat to India's growth by 2050, according to a World Bank Report. The changes in temperatures and rainfall patterns may decrease India's GDP by 2.8 per cent and depress the living standards of nearly 50 per cent of the country's population, said the "South Asia's Hotspots -- The Impac...

No more water rafting, paragliding or any water sports in Uttarakhand until transparent policies are formulated, the High Court ruled.

The 25.6 km corridor between Janakpuri West and Kalkaji Mandir along the Magenta Line of the Delhi Metro will finally be opened on May 28. It will be flagged off by Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs (Independent Charge), Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from the Nehru Enclave Metro station. Passenger services w...

Students at Delhi's St Stephen's College on Friday afternoon noticed the chapel inside the college premises vandalized. Scribbled in capital letters in black ink across the door were words that said there should be a temple here.

The government launched a biodegradable sanitary pad 'Suvidha' on Thursday to mark International Women's Day. The oxo-biodegradable sanitary pads priced at Rs 2.50 per pad will be available at Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi centres. The sanitary pads will be available in packs of four across 3200 centres and each pack will be priced at Rs 10. ...

Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is a parasitic disease caused by infection with roundworms of the family Filarioidea. As per WHO data, India contributes to 40% of the infection burden worldwide and LF is prevalent in 17 states across the country. India had set the ambitious target of eliminating filariasis by the year 2020, but e...

A day after Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced that a CBI probe had been ordered into the alleged paper leak in one of the tests of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) held last month, protests by candidates continue outside the Commission's office though the crowd has thinned out.

After he arrived in India on Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi face to face during a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

In election season, crores of households across India are receiving a personalised letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his flagship health insurance plan under the Ayushman Bharat - PM Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), the largest government-funded healthcare programme, touches the 100-day mark.

Climate change is making more people vulnerable to heat exposure and air pollution in India leading to one lakh premature deaths and 7 per cent reduction in country's labour force, the researchers said in an analysis in The Lancet medical journal.

A scuffle over the right to play in a playground turned fatal for 8-year-old Aseem, a student of the Darul Uloom Faridiya madrasa in South Delhi's Malviya Nagar. On Thursday, Aseem and his friends, all of them students, were playing in the madrasa premises when a group of neighbourhood children aged 10-12 years, attacked them. Soon a scuffle broke ...

India's anti-polio programme got a jolt recently after it was found that some vaccines made by a Ghaziabad-based firm were found to contain the P2 virus strain. The company, BioMed, is one of the four domestic suppliers of polio vaccines to the government-run polio immunisation programme.

The wife of the Delhi sewage worker urged she wants to educate her three children. As of 10 AM on September 19, over Rs 48 lakh had been crowdfunded for Anil's family.

The Delhi State Cancer Institute - the only government-run cancer hospital in the state - will reserve 80 per cent of free services for people from the state, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced. At present, only 40 per cent of the people getting treated at the hospital are Delhi residents.

Sharath Koppu, the Indian student killed in a shooting in the US, tried to run away from an armed robber when he was shot in the back, witnesses at the restaurant where he worked, told NDTV.

Rising temperature and climatic changes could be a substantial threat to India's growth by 2050, according to a World Bank Report. The changes in temperatures and rainfall patterns may decrease India's GDP by 2.8 per cent and depress the living standards of nearly 50 per cent of the country's population, said the "South Asia's Hotspots -- The Impac...

No more water rafting, paragliding or any water sports in Uttarakhand until transparent policies are formulated, the High Court ruled.

The 25.6 km corridor between Janakpuri West and Kalkaji Mandir along the Magenta Line of the Delhi Metro will finally be opened on May 28. It will be flagged off by Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs (Independent Charge), Hardeep Singh Puri and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from the Nehru Enclave Metro station. Passenger services w...

Students at Delhi's St Stephen's College on Friday afternoon noticed the chapel inside the college premises vandalized. Scribbled in capital letters in black ink across the door were words that said there should be a temple here.

The government launched a biodegradable sanitary pad 'Suvidha' on Thursday to mark International Women's Day. The oxo-biodegradable sanitary pads priced at Rs 2.50 per pad will be available at Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi centres. The sanitary pads will be available in packs of four across 3200 centres and each pack will be priced at Rs 10. ...

Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is a parasitic disease caused by infection with roundworms of the family Filarioidea. As per WHO data, India contributes to 40% of the infection burden worldwide and LF is prevalent in 17 states across the country. India had set the ambitious target of eliminating filariasis by the year 2020, but e...

A day after Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced that a CBI probe had been ordered into the alleged paper leak in one of the tests of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) held last month, protests by candidates continue outside the Commission's office though the crowd has thinned out.

After he arrived in India on Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi face to face during a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhavan.