No adverse impact due to rescheduling of polio immunisation drive: GovernmentIndia conducts one nationwide NID, commonly known as the pulse polio immunisation programme, and two sub-national immunization days every y...
Pulse polio programme gets underway in KarnatakaSudhakar said the COVID-19 vaccination drive would be temporarily stopped for four days from Sunday as extra health staff have to be deploy...
Logistics company Mudita signs MoU with SpiceJet for COVID-19 vaccine distributionAmit Gulati, Director, Mudita Express Cargo, said, "We have been at the forefront of distributing the pulse polio vaccine on behalf of the ...
View: Addressing the last-mile challenges in Covid-19 vaccine distributionThe establishment of a national expert group for Covid-19 vaccine distribution and Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) to track ...
DD Science, India Science channels launchedWhile DD Science is a one-hour slot on Doordarshan national channel, India Science is an Internet-based channel.
President Ram Nath Kovind launches Pulse Polio programme for 2018Over 17 crore children below five years across the country will be given polio drops as part of the Government of India's drive.
Vigorous campaign to be launched against child marriage, dowry: Nitish KumarHe exhorted that the temple should play an active role in propagating against social evils like dowry and child marriage among devotees.
DGP meet: PM Narendra Modi wants police to be active in community programmesJoining community campaigns like Pulse Polio drive, becoming active on social media are some of the new initiatives that PM Modi has sugges...
Injectable vaccine to prevent re-emergence of polio launchedHealth Minister JP Nadda said that though India was certified polio-free on March 27, 2014, the battle against polio is not over yet.
'Attempts being made to create misapprehensions about Yoga Day'"Attempts were made to create different types of misapprehensions about the Pulse Polio in the Muslim community," Qasmi claimed.
58% immunisation rate in rural areas, 67% in urban: GovernmentNadda said funds allocated by govt to promote immunisation programme in India in 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 are Rs 221.70 cr, Rs 188.91 c...
President Pranab Mukherjee launches Pulse Polio Immunization ProgrammeLauding the efforts of volunteers and supervisors, Health Minister J P Nadda said that there has been no case of wild polio since January 1...
- LK Advani lauds Harsh Vardhan for pulse polio campaign
Advani also quotes Microsoft founder Bill Gates who has praised Vardhan, a doctor by profession, for his achievement.
Harsh Vardhan writes to Bill Gates, lauds support for anti-polio driveThe pulse polio programme was conceived and initiated in Delhi by Vardhan during his tenure as Health Minister in the BJP govt, between 199...
- Polio to be completely eradicated in 2011
Bihar government has planned to completely eradicate polio by 2011, according to state Health Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey.
- German bank to provide Rs 1,070 cr loan to India
German Government Bank KfW would provide loans worth 190 million euro (Rs 1,070 crore) to India for rejuvenating the rural cooperatives and...
- Big B tops in social endorsements
Bachchan accounted for 65% of the ads, followed by Juhi Chawla at 18% and John Abhraham at 4%.