The Indian health ministry has reported 143 recorded deaths and 41,789 people suffering from suspected heatstroke between March 1 and June ...

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya chaired a high-level meeting to review the public health preparedness for management of heat-relate...

Union Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar and Dr V K Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog, were also present at the meeting. Sev...

Niti Aayog member (Health) Dr V K Paul, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Dr Rajiv Bahl and India Meteorological D...

Several states have begun intensive preparations to handle any situation emerging from the COVID BF.7 variant spread. CMs and concerned off...

Strategies to overcome teenage childbearing, lack of male participation in awareness programmes, migration and lack of access to contracept...

The registration in 15-18 year age group started on CoWin on Saturday. Other platforms including Aarogya Setu will offer the same services.

India ranks below four South Asian countries -- Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, it said. The overall SDG score of India is 61.9 ou...

In the last 10 days, 2,525 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported from Patna district. In comparison, the case load in other districts of...

The American India Foundation (AIF) said it will use its existing "service delivery platforms" comprising frontline health workers, teacher...

Only 40 percent officials responded saying that hospitals were adequately prepared. While 50% officials agreed that there were adequate iso...

The Centre's primary aim is coordinating efficiently with states to strengthen capacities and stop the virus, he said.

Union Health Secretary Preeti Sudan chaired a video-conference meeting with chief secretaries and police chiefs of the five states borderin...

The health minister reviewed the situation at a high-level meeting which was attended by senior officers of the Health Ministry, Indian Cou...

BJP sources said the focus of the review was on tying loose ends and gearing up the party machinery for a big push ahead of the polls.

Health Minister J P Nadda is personally monitoring the situation on an hourly basis and has conducted a complete detailed review of the sit...

Centre will shortly change the criteria for evaluating a state's claim to be "backward", meeting the demand of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar for sp...