As sugar is a state subject, mills have to follow state government policies when it comes to buying sugarcane from farmers. This brings pol...

An eight-month-old baby in Brazil was declared dead, found alive during her funeral, but sadly died again at the hospital. Initial death wa...

Now, some airlines are giving passengers the chance to pay for that form of traveler's ecstasy, by offering a sleeper-seat option in the ma...

The thousands of Haitians who crossed the border into Texas last month, jolting the town of Del Rio and thrusting the Biden administration ...

India is using technology and data to solve its acute malnutrition and hunger problems

'2.6 billion doses of intramuscular vaccines in two years is an extraordinarily complex and sophisticated task and without digital orchestr...

India must take into account the altered global economic landscape that may emerge in the post-Covid-19 era.

An ongoing epidemic of Zika virus began in early 2015 in Brazil and with it new evidence emerged that Zika virus infection of mothers durin...

Pregnant women with Zika during first trimester have a risk of up to 13 per cent that their infant will be born with the microcephaly defec...

In three Brazilian infants with microcephaly, the researchers from Stanford University in the US and colleagues observed retinal lesions.

India is among five countries where projects are underway to develop vaccines to fight the deadly Zika virus affecting newborns in 38 count...

Zika virus has infected at least 116 people, including an infant, in the US, according to a leading American public health institute.

A woman with a confirmed case of the Zika virus in the southern state of Chiapas gave birth to a "clinically healthy" baby boy, Mexico's he...

With so much happening in the world of health, we bring the major highlights.

Harvard School of Public Health's Dean Julio Frenk talks on India's move toward universal health coverage and strengthening their partnersh...

With India’s dysfunctional primary healthcare system severely impairing its human capital, the govt needs to rise above rhetoric.

By making choices available to the poor, the NREGA-plus avoids the assumption that all poor are ready to engage in physical work only.