The disease burden saw 14 per cent increase to 31,536 cases per district during October from September’s 27,587 cases.

It may sound surprising. Despite public outcry over infant deaths at government hospitals last year and illegal practice of female foeticide across the state, some of the important health indicators in the state such as death rate, birth rate and infant mortality rate are better than the national average.

However, child gender ratio and adult gender ratio in the state still remains dismal. As per the figures indicated in the Sample Registration System (SRS) issued by the Registrar General of India in its latest report, the comparative position of some important health indicators in the state vis-à-vis the national average altogether tells a different tale.

New Delhi: India is expected to miss the crucial UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), including those related to reduction in poverty, hunger and infant mortality, according to a government repor

More than 7,400 infants have died of preventable diseases in only five blocks of Malkangiri in the last five years - a blatant reflection of the failure of Odisha Government to extend proper health

Companies, reporting a standalone net profit during a year, will now have to spend mandatorily on corporate social responsibility (CSR), even if the parent group is registering a loss.

Chhattisgarh will bear an additional subsidy of Rs. 2,300 crore

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh does not favour proposed cash transfer for food and will not implement the scheme in his State.

“Food security means taking food to people’s doorstep,” he told journalists here on Saturday. The Chief Minister said that while cash transfer may be okay for fertilisers and other welfare schemes, it was not required as a substitute for grains. “If you give Rs. 600 in the hands of a poor person without a proper banking system, banks being far-flung and fluctuations in food prices, the idea will not work.”

The Uttar Pradesh government signed a memorandum of operation with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Thursday for bilateral and technical cooperation in health, nutrition, agriculture and other