Four public-funded national universities have entered into a "confidential" pact with Nestle, one of the biggest baby food and commercial food companies, for nutrition awareness programmes for adolescent school-going girls in government-run village schools. Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI) has written a letter to the secretary for school education and literacy, Anshu Vaish, protesting against "brand promotion using the public education system" and saying that the MoU (memorandum of understanding)...

Women in rural India continue to die because of indifference and neglect by healthcare authorities... This is a public health warning. Do not express concern for the state of healthcare in this country. Do not express anger that women die because they are either denied care or help is delayed when they have complicated pregnancies. Do not demand that healthcare is an entitlement that the poor have a right to demand...

In a first of its kind public private partnership project (PPP),US-headquartered tractor and farm equipment manufacturing firm Deere & Co. and Gujarat government on Friday announced a scheme specially aimed to increase farm productivity of the marginalized tribal farmers of the state. “Under the five year long project the state government will buy from us 529 tractors each with a set of 13 farm equipments. These equipments will be provided to...

This is the virus' first appearance in India The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday claimed that no new cases of the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) were reported from Gujarat even as a six-member central team of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) arrived in Ahmedabad to investigate the outbreak. The National Institute of Virology (NIV) at Pune has sent a team as well. Surveillance begun Surveillance activity has been...

Even as a team of experts from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Delhi, held on-the-spot study of the situation, Gujarat government officials have heaved a sigh of relief with all the 70-odd samples send to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, having tested negative for the rare Crimean-Congo Hae. The State government officials were under pressure after three deaths, including that of a doctor and a nurse, under...