The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave a nod to increasing the benchmark prices of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) and muriate of potash (MoP) to ensure adequate availability during the upcoming kharif sowing season.

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Concerned over the sharp decline in the child sex ratio as reflected in the provisional Census figures, the Centre on Saturday reconstituted the Central Supervisory Board set up under the Pre-conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 (PC & PNDT Act).

Chaired by the Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and co-chaired by the Minister of Women and Child Development, the Board

The death of 16 women admitted to a government hospital in Jodhpur for childbirth exposes the sorry state of the public health system in Rajasthan.

THE death of 16 women, who had sought obstetric care, within a span of a fortnight following infection caused by contaminated intravenous (IV) fluid injection and unhygienic conditions in a leading government hospital in Jodhpur district of Rajastha

Expressing concern over the scarcity of research in the routine health-information system, in reports and published papers, which is crucial to track the response of the health system to the health needs of the population, a paper on

BHUBANESWAR: The government has sanctioned Rs 6 crore in the current financial year for Rairakhol NAC for a drinking water supply project estimated to cost Rs 30 crore.

The project will meet the drinking water requirement of about 10,000 people of the NAC, considered to be one of the backward civic bodies, and inhabitants of roadside villages in between Kiakata and Rairakhol.

To reduce maternal and infant deaths, the Union Health Ministry has directed states to guarantee

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The three-member committee, set up to probe the alleged irregularities in conducting studies using human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine by PATH in India, has identified several deficiencies in the planning and implementation of the project leading