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Around Lake Tanganyika, Burundians struggle with endless flooding

Around Lake Tanganyika, Burundians struggle with endless flooding
Updated on Oct 06, 2025 09:31 pm IST

SBI Foundation launches flagship Asha Scholarship Program, details here

SBI Foundation's Asha Scholarship Program offers specialized categories for school students, undergraduates, postgraduates, and those enrolled in IITs and IIMs. (Pradeep Gaur/Mint File Photo)
Published on Sept 07, 2024 02:37 pm IST

Asha, Sajana earn maiden call-ups for T20 series against Bangladesh

Jemimah Rodrigues, who played for DC in WPL, doesn't feature in the 16-member squad
Published on Apr 15, 2024 11:06 pm IST

Ahead of consecration ceremony, Ram katha, Ramayan paath to be held at temples from Jan 14: Aligarh CDO

Consecration ceremony of Ram temple will be held in Ayodhya on January 22. (File photo)
Published on Jan 04, 2024 08:53 pm IST

MP: Mistaking them for dacoits, villagers attack cheetah tracking team

The cheetah tracking team was looking to locate Asha, one of the Namibian cheetahs brought to India on September 17, 2022. (Representative Image)
Updated on May 27, 2023 12:17 pm IST

Will raise Anganwadi, ASHA staff’s pay if voted to power in K’taka, says Cong

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during a public meeting in Belagavi’s Khanapur on Sunday. (Karnataka Congress Twitter)
Updated on May 01, 2023 12:26 am IST

Enhanced pay for Anganwadi workers if voted to power in Karnataka: Priyanka Gandhi

Priyanka Gandhi addresses a public rally in Belagavi’s Khanapur in Karnataka (Twitter/@INCIndia)
Updated on Apr 30, 2023 06:29 pm IST

IIT-Kanpur students create health awareness in village

Students and volunteers from IIT-Kanpur and coordinating institutes at the health camp in Maksoodabad village. (HT)
Updated on Apr 30, 2023 05:56 pm IST

Minor biker rams into auto, run over by bus in Nerul

The auto driver has been identified as Kisan Manohar Shyamsundar, 38, a resident of Karava and the bus driver as Ravindra Rajendra Wagh – a resident of Shiravane village. The duo has been booked under section 279 (driving or riding in a public way so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life) and 304A (causing death by negligence) of the IPC and sections of the Motor Vehicle Act. (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Apr 08, 2023 12:09 am IST

Male cheetah spotted in village 20 km from Kuno National Park

Oban is among four cheetahs imported from Namibia in September 2022 (Screengrab of video footage)
Updated on Apr 02, 2023 06:15 pm IST

ASHA workers at forefront of ensuring healthy India: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (ANI)
Published on May 24, 2022 03:36 am IST

6 arrested for raping 14-year-old in Odisha

During a medical test at a government hospital, she was found to be six months pregnant. The girl then revealed to her mother how six persons had been sexually assaulting her on different occasions. (Photo @odisha_police)
Updated on Aug 30, 2020 08:12 am IST

In Bihar, 65-yr-old had 8 kids in 18 months in govt records

Leela Devi is one of the many beneficiaries of National Maternity Benefit Schemes (NMBS) under the National Health Mission (NHM) in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. (HT Photo)
Updated on Aug 21, 2020 02:46 pm IST

Covid-19: 600k Asha, Anganwadi staff on 2-day strike over payments

The Initiative of Health Equity and Society director Mira Shiva said the workers would not have needed to go on strike if they were given their due.
Updated on Aug 08, 2020 01:24 am IST

‘Work sans masks, sanitisers’: Uttarakhand ASHA workers seek Covid allowance

ASHA workers from Nainital recently staged a protest supporting workers from Champawat district. (HT photo)
Updated on Jul 09, 2020 06:18 pm IST

ASHA workers in Maharashtra may get pay hike for working during Covid-19 crisis

ASHA workers while doing survey at the red zone areas of coronavirus in Nagpur.
Updated on Jun 25, 2020 10:26 am IST

In the Covid-19 battle, Delhi turns to volunteers | HT Editorial

While there can be no substitute for the domain knowledge and skills the specialists bring to health care, in this time of crisis, additional deployment of personnel to assist is helpful
Updated on Jun 22, 2020 12:16 am IST

Covid-19: Focus on reproductive health

In India, far more women are working in the field of childcare, in schools at the nursery level, and as health care providers in homes than men. In fact, with schools closing, their burden at home increases hugely
Updated on Jun 14, 2020 06:05 am IST

Aarogya Setu app users cross 2 crore mark in Uttar Pradesh: Official

NCC cadets and volunteers of NSS, Nehru Yuva Kendra and Yuvak Mangal Dal are being enlisted in COVID Volunteer Force, mandated to spread mass awareness about COVID
Published on May 23, 2020 07:04 pm IST

At least 60 babies delivered in Odisha during cyclone Amphan

Though the 20-year old woman went into labour, ambulance could not reach her due to fallen trees blocking the road to her house
Published on May 21, 2020 10:13 pm IST

Dr Alka Chaudhari: When she’s not treating patients, the ‘doktarni’ at Delhi’s first mohalla clinic feeds families of 35 daily-wagers

Dr Alka Chaudhary, 48, has been working in the city’s first mohalla clinic in Peera Garhi.
Updated on May 02, 2020 02:50 am IST

Asha worker attacked for collecting data on Covid-19 patients in Odisha

Seen here is ASHA worker Subhadra, who was attacked in her home on Thursday.
Updated on Apr 24, 2020 10:04 pm IST

‘Don’t want anyone to remain hungry’: Sitharaman announces Covid-19 relief package

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a comprehensive relief package for the vulnerable section of the country affected by Covid-19 lockdown.
Updated on Mar 26, 2020 05:52 pm IST

Baby made of dough, woman tries to get govt scheme money, exposed

The woman claimed that she was carrying a baby in her arm wrapped with a piece of cloth but upon inspection it was nothing but dough given the shape of a baby, the health department officials said.
Updated on Aug 23, 2019 09:25 pm IST

In flood-hit Assam, boat clinics bring respite to many

Boat clinic s have come to the respite of the people in Morigaon which has been severely hit by the floods.
Updated on Jul 23, 2019 04:25 pm IST

Free tests, medicines, separate OPD at district government hospitals in Punjab

Two beds for the elderly will be kept reserved in every ward and officials are directed to mention ‘reserved for elderly’ behind the wall of the bed.
Updated on Apr 20, 2019 10:18 pm IST

Why India’s health system fails to spot malnourished children

Malnourished children eat a meal at the Apanalaya centre, an organisation working for the betterment of slum children, Mumbai.
Updated on Jan 24, 2019 07:19 am IST

‘New law is the most progressive globally’

India’s Mental Health Care Act is one of the most progressive legislations on mental health globally, and should be read as a bill of rights for people with mental disorders.
Updated on Sept 14, 2018 10:24 am IST

US jury orders Monsanto to pay $289 million to cancer patient over weedkiller

Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson reacts after hearing the verdict in his case against Monsanto at the Superior Court of California in San Francisco on Friday.
Updated on Aug 12, 2018 07:12 am IST

UP: A new chapter in newborn health care in villages

Baby care team checking baby and their mother at their home. The follow up becomes necessary to ensure the baby grows with correct weight.
Published on Jul 19, 2018 03:49 pm IST