The Congress leader in the Rajya Sabha, L. Hanumanthaiah, on Tuesday questioned why the government had decided to accord “institution of national importance” status to Gujarat institutions...

Tribals in Jharkhand have found their own indigenous way to improve and bolster their immunity to fight rising Covid cases in the state, as the community continues to trust in its herbs and shrubs and...

My journey in health and fitness began three years ago with a trek to Mt Kilimanjaro. I discovered my love for the mountains and trekking and wanted to get fitter and stronger to challenge myself furt...

Jawaharlal Nehru University has made sweeping curriculum changes, including the introduction of an Ayurveda Biology course due to be offered by its Sanskrit school. The changes were cleared at a meeti...

The present scenario is making us consider health-related issues far more seriously than ever before. The age-old Indian system of Ayurveda has always advocated maintaining one’s health. This can be...

Advertising, the maxim goes, is the art of convincing the consumer to buy something he or she does not need. Deception is thus an inescapable part of the trade. But such trickery can have dangerous ou...

Fairness is integral to economic and political welfarism. It is only apt that those who provide a service are compensated adequately for their knowledge and labour. Divya Pharmacy, an ayurvedic manufa...

A private company claimed on Monday it had launched an Ayurvedic drug to combat cancer, angering Calcutta-based government scientists who had worked on the formulation but asserted that the claims are...

Ghosts do exist, albeit only in the mind. Few will deny that supernatural beings — benign or otherwise — are products of either the infirm or the fecund imagination. The father of modern psycholog...

An advisory from India’s traditional medicines ministry on Wednesday suggesting remedies from ayurveda, unani and homoeopathy for the novel coronavirus has been criticised by doctors and scientists ...