“Maternal and child health indicate the robustness of our health sector”

Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday accorded due appreciation to the fact that the country’s under-five mortality rate has declined much faster than the global average, but agreed that the challenge was to bring down neonatal mortality. Speaking at the inauguration of a national summit ‘Call to Action — Child Survival and Development,’ Mr. Azad noted with pride that there was a quantum jump in the annual rate of decline in the recent past. Also, the decline in child deaths in rural areas and in the States with weak health indicators was both sharp and steady.

The government of Japan has decided to extend financial support of $245,833 (Rs 24 million) to two Pakistani NGOs to help improve the quality of maternal health and social welfare services in Faisa

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

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.

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

Non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease killed two out of three people in 2010 — a larger share than in 1990, when they were responsible for every second death in the worl

Five months after chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation met and promised to initiate more development activities in Uttar Pradesh, the gove