The PM also said that attempts were made to downplay Netaji's contribution to the freedom movement, but the entire country, right from Delh...

Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO) is in India for the ground breaking ceremony of the WHO Global Centre for Tr...

The objective is also to develop a mechanism that allows access to such traditional medicinal practices and protects such knowledge, Dr Poo...

Responding to a question that coronavirus cases have started plateauing in India, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-E...

Several countries including India are planning to start booster vaccination for high-risk populations such as people above 60 years of age ...

This week, Maldives and Myanmar confirmed the transmission of coronavirus variants of concern. Earlier, variants of concern have been confi...

According to Khetrapal, the use of vaccine in "priortised population" as well as implementation of other public health measures will be imp...

"WHO is working on an allocation policy for Covid-19 vaccines and has proposed that the goal of vaccination should be to minimise the socie...

Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh said at this stage everyone needs to contribute to minimize the impact.

Noting that outdoor air pollution increases the risk of cancer, WHO today urged governments of Southeast Asian region to tackle the issue w...

The report has found that three in 10 children, under the age of five years, suffer from diarrhoea which is a major death among kids in the...

"Good quality health services enables people to be more productive," said Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Re...

Delay by India to implement larger pictorial warnings on packs of tobacco products came up for criticism at the WHO's regional meet here as...

Poonam Khetrapal Singh said yoga fits in well with the healthy lifestyle that WHO has been strongly advocating for.

WHO regional director for South-East Asia region Poonam Khetrapal Singh said that most of the premature NCD deaths are preventable.

Over 60 per cent of homes in WHO South-East Asia Region still use solid fuel for cooking. In India, this amounts to some 700 million people.

In the WHO South-East Asia region, as of 2013, there were around 3.4 million people living with HIV and 1.1 million of them are currently o...