Pakistani cricketer Zaheer Abbas in ICU after contracting coronavirus, say reportsThe report added that the 74-year-old former cricketer, who played 78 Tests and scored 5000-plus runs at an average of nearly 45 with 12 ce...
22 Jun, 2022, 12.00 PM IST
No last goodbye for Gulf migrant workers lost to pandemicMillions of foreigners work in the United Arab Emirates and across the other wealthy Gulf nations, providing the backbone of the workforce ...
22 Apr, 2020, 12.40 PM IST
WHO chief says China virus evacuations not recommendedHis remarks during his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi came as India, US and several other countries are finalising plans to ...
28 Jan, 2020, 09.56 PM IST
Dilip Kumar 'overjoyed' to hear Lata Mangeshkar is back home, asks her to 'take good care'The veteran actor called the 90-year-old singer his younger sister.
10 Dec, 2019, 02.04 PM IST
Veteran journalist Kuldip Nayyar no moreNayyar died at around 12.30 AM at a private hospital, his elder son Sudhir Nayyar said. He was suffering from pneumonia and was admitted to...
23 Aug, 2018, 11.04 AM IST
Newborn mortality: India 12th worst among low-income countriesPakistan is the worst with 45.6 newborn deaths per 1,000 live births, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) which has, f...
20 Feb, 2018, 10.21 AM IST
India has highest number of pneumonia & diarrhoea deaths among children: ReportThe Health Ministry recently announced that the PCV that can combat pneumonia, will be rolled out as part of the Universal Immunisation Pro...
10 Nov, 2016, 11.02 PM IST
India among 5 countries that will see high under-5 deaths: UNA total of 69 million such deaths will have occurred between 2016 and 2030, with sub-Saharan Africa accounting for around half of these and...
28 Jun, 2016, 08.12 PM IST
UN warns India over its high infant mortality rateThe warning comes weeks after UNICEF revealed that one in every 21 children being born in India is dying before reaching their fifth birthd...
20 Oct, 2015, 11.26 AM IST
Common bacteria may become antibiotic-resistant superbugsThe researchers studied a family of bacteria called Enterobacteriaceae, which includes E coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter.
26 Mar, 2015, 04.15 PM IST
Veteran actor Dilip Kumar in hospital for pneumoniaKumar, known as the 'King of Tragedy', essayed iconic roles in classics like 'Devdas', 'Madhumati', 'Mughal-e-Azam' and 'Ganga Jamuna'.
07 Dec, 2014, 01.38 AM IST
India records highest deaths among under-five childrenIndia has 3.18 lakh under-five children deaths annually due to pneumonia and diarrhoea annually, Health Minister JP Nadda said.
05 Dec, 2014, 03.08 PM IST
Drought, poor health-care kills 275 children in Pakistan's SindhThe Tharparkar district, close to Indo-Pak border, is mostly a desert area where life depends on rains which were scanty for many months.
08 Nov, 2014, 01.55 PM IST
Do not ban the pentavalent vaccineThe vaccine is designed to combat five childhood diseases: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, Hepatitis B, pneumonia and meningitis.
01 Oct, 2013, 08.46 AM IST
- RB, Save the Children to prevent diarrhoea mortality
Reckitt Benckiser and Save the Children will utilise their synergy for prevention of mortality due to diarrhoea among children by 2020
20 May, 2013, 08.32 PM IST
- Diarrhoea, pneumonia kill over six lakh kids in India: UNICEF
Scaling up simple interventions to control diarrhoea and pneumonia can save more than two million children in poor and developing countries.
08 Jun, 2012, 04.45 PM IST
- Premature births claimed 3.5 lakh kids’ lives in 2010
India recorded the highest number of deaths of preemies, or babies born before time, in 2010.
03 May, 2012, 10.58 AM IST