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India records progress against child marriage, gender violenceNew data reveals child marriage rates are falling in India. Women aged 20-24 married before 18 dropped to 20.1%. Spousal violence also decr...30 May, 2026, 06.30 PM IST- Out-of-pocket costs still dominate hospitalisation spend despite wider insurance coverage: NSO surveyHealth insurance coverage has grown significantly in India. However, patients continue to pay most hospitalisation bills themselves. Rural ...27 Apr, 2026, 06.02 PM IST
- How Toyota's CSR initiative taught rural Karnataka hygiene habitsToyota Kirloskar Motor's ABCD program transformed rural Indian schools by tackling hygiene beliefs. Children became agents of change, promo...26 Apr, 2026, 08.51 PM IST
- Health insurance coverage rises, higher in rural areas: SurveyHealth insurance coverage in India has seen a major jump. Rural areas now have more people insured than urban centers. Government schemes a...20 Apr, 2026, 07.37 PM IST
- Earth Could Have Billions More People Than We Think, New Study SuggestsNew research suggests global population figures, like the UN's 8.2 billion, might significantly undercount rural populations. A study compa...11 Feb, 2026, 05.20 PM IST
- Need to integrate HIMS portal with other portals of ministry: Health secretaryUnion Health Secretary Apurva Chandra emphasized the need to integrate various health ministry portals for timely data upload and analysis....09 Sep, 2024, 02.32 PM IST
- PM advisory council member Shamika Ravi calls for greater focus on data quality in national surveysNational Sample Survey done by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation over-represents the rural population, the scheduled ...13 Jul, 2023, 07.51 PM IST
- Make rural health jobs more alluringThe three-tier system — health sub-centres (SC), primary healthcare centres (PHC) and CHCs — is characterised by paucity and absenteeism. E...25 Jan, 2023, 11.16 PM IST
- Yogi Adityanath calls on MLAs to adopt health centresResponding to the call, basic education minister Satish Dwivedi announced adoption of a CHC in his constituency Itwa in Siddharthnagar. Sim...26 May, 2021, 08.26 AM IST
- Government to check for inconsistencies in Household Expenditure surveyThe meeting took place in the wake of a leaked draft of the Household Consumer Expenditure survey report showing a decline in consumer spen...05 Dec, 2019, 07.26 AM IST
- Even tiny Burundi spends more percentage of GDP on health than IndiaHealth Minister J P Nadda said the per capita government expenditure on health in India was $18 in 2012 as compared to developed countries ...26 Apr, 2016, 06.21 PM IST
- Economic data pointer to rural India's appalling status: PMKStating that the socio economic census data released yesterday revealed "two Indias within the glittering image of India as a fast growing ...04 Jul, 2015, 07.05 PM IST
- Poor health pushing 39 million Indians to poverty every year: Ghulam Nabi AzadAround 30 per cent in rural India did not go for any treatment due to financial constraints, as per a WHO report, Azad added.04 Oct, 2012, 11.23 PM IST
- Nation faces acute crunch for doctors, paramedical staffAccording to the latest data on rural health statistics, a huge number of posts sanctioned for medical staff in primary and community healt...07 Aug, 2010, 07.04 AM IST
- Flagships to get regulator in 100 daysGovt Schemes on Social infrastructure, education, healthcare and rural jobs to be monitored every quarter.23 May, 2009, 01.51 AM IST
- Independent evaluation needed for flagship programmes: PMWith government pumping in massive funds in education, health and rural employment, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked the plan pane...09 Sep, 2008, 01.23 PM IST
- Healthcare in dismal state: SurveyThe picture is equally dismal in most Northern states, according to a baseline survey on well being of children and women, conducted by the...07 Sep, 2006, 10.00 PM IST
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