In view of the alleged irregularities and complaints related to donations and offerings at Badrinath Dham, and considering the seriousness ...

In a plea for justice, a civil rights group has turned to the National Human Rights Commission concerning five maternal deaths that occurre...

Rajasthan is changing drug procurement rules after recent maternity deaths occurred. A probe found spurious oxytocin injections caused thes...

A civil rights group has asked the NHRC to intervene in five maternal deaths. These deaths occurred in Kota, Rajasthan, after women receive...

Victims of the Kota Medical College case are suffering from kidney failure after childbirth. Spurious oxytocin injections allegedly led to ...

The Punjab FDA has taken decisive action by revoking the manufacturing licence of Jackson Laboratories in Amritsar due to severe regulatory...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has sought details from the Indian government after reports linked oxytocin injections made by Jackson ...

Elon Musk's comment on India's falling birth rate has gone viral. India's total fertility rate has now dropped below the replacement level....

Arunachal Pradesh fares the worst of all states and Maharashtra the best, says the study published in the journal PLOS Global Public Health...

Quoting a special bulletin on Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)released by the Registrar General of India, the ministry said the country has b...

It said increasing the marriage age will push the mean marriage age higher and will lead to more females doing graduation and hence improvi...

The ratio has declined from 167 in 2011-2013 to 130 in 2014-2016 and to 122 in 2015-17, registering a 6.15 per cent reduction since the las...

All EAG states (Bihar, Jharkhand, MP, Chhatisgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan, UP and Uttaranchal), and Assam have witnessed an increase of over 40 ...

One of the parameters to judge women empowerment is by knowing how many are functioning as elected representatives.

The HPDs were decided based on their poor indicators. Relative ranking of districts has been done within a state based on composite index).

MSD for Mothers, drug firm would partner three non-governmental organisations across three states in India- Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Uttar ...

UNICEF on Thursday released a report on 'The State of The World's Children 2009' here highlighting the need and care of maternal and newbor...