-The Hindu Not only is tuberculosis not going away, we are now seeing severe forms of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) India accounts for a quarter of the 8.6 million cases of TB that occur worldwide. India also accounts for a third of the ‘missing 3 million TB cases' that do not get diagnosed or notified. Not only is TB not going away, we are now seeing severe forms of multi-drug resistant TB...

-The Telegraph The Centre today approved changes in a scheme for the disabled that will help more of them buy aids cheaper and get higher cash assistance for surgeries. A key change in the scheme, last reviewed nine years ago, opens it to those with incomes higher than current limits, effectively widening it. Under the revised guidelines of the Scheme of Assistance to Disabled Persons for Purchase, Fitting of Aids/Appliances (Adip Scheme), 100...

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: India is preparing to give mobile phones to each female member of a household, who has worked for 100 days in 2012 under a rural employment guarantee scheme run by the government, as per an internal presentation of the telecom department. If implemented, this would be the latest sop the government is planning to woo a population ahead of a slew of state polls leading up to...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: The World Health Organisation wants India's public to give up Bollywood songs as caller tunes on their mobile phones and replace them with short health messages from superstars of India's entertainment industry. The global health agency today launched what is being dubbed as the world's first attempt to promote health campaigns via caller tunes, drawing on the voices of 10 personalities from Bollywood and other entertainment sectors. Amitabh Bachchan's...

-India Times An Indian has developed a unique smart-phone that can aid the blind and help them perform functions other than answering calls. Technology has definitely been a blessing to humans and smartphones have become the need of the day. With having everything from the daily wake-up call (read alarm) to good-night reads (ebooks) on your phone, it has become an essential, almost a basic need. However, there is a segment of population...