ASHA workers across the country can be trained to identify high blood pressure among rural residents, educate patients about prevention, treatment

Rashmi Urdhwareshe, director of Automotive Research Association of India, spoke about different vehicle technologies that improve fuel efficiency through power train engineering.

Even though air pollution affects not just the environment but also health, the draft entrusts all responsibility on MoEF and CPCB.

Other causes of maternal deaths include haemorrhage, sepsis, heart disease and anaemia.

The Iksha Foundation, a Bengaluru-based NGO supporting children with eye cancer, has stepped up programmes to spread awareness about retinoblastoma and ensure that the disease is detected in potent

According to it, Pune district had a maximum of 12 villages showing depletion, followed by five villages with a depletion between 1m to 2m in the groundwater levels.

Summers are the peak season for drilling borewells and several illegal companies mushroom to carry on drilling activities.

India became the first country in the world to run a national tobacco control campaign with the launch of 'Cough' on World No Tobacco Day in 2017.

According to the World Health Organisation Global TB report 2016, India accounts for 2.8 million of the 10.3 million new TB cases globally

The PMC is also trying to identify more civic buildings to generate additional 176 KWP to achieve its target of 1 MW of solar energy via rooftop solar panels.