For over half a century, the University Grants Commission played a crucial role in consolidating Indian higher education. We cursed it for its many faults. In retrospect, let us recall the blessings i...

The Centre’s health scheme that provides up to Rs 5 lakh per year for hospitalisation costs to poor households has proposed an annual inflation-linked increase in the reimbursement rates for all...

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday called Narendra Modi a “jumla (rhetoric-reliant) Prime Minister” who spoke “safed jhut (white lies)”. “A few months ba...

The Union cabinet has approved a five-year outlay of Rs 1,600 crore for the Centre’s plan to create a digital platform to enable patients’ health records to be accessed with their consent ...

People across India may create Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts to digitally store their personal health records through Aarogya Setu, the Covid-19 app for contact tracing and mapping launched by the C...

The Jharkhand government’s decision to charge a processing fee for each unit of blood provided to beneficiaries of Ayushman Bharat and other health insurance schemes undergoing treatment at priv...

Covid-19’s second wave put a massive strain on India’s medical infrastructure. With just 5 hospital beds and 8.6 doctors for every 10,000 people, India has one of the least robust medical ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission, one of the largest pan-India schemes for strengthening healthcare infrastructure, in his parliamentary constitu...

Time’s up Sir — As Daniel Craig hangs up his boots as the British super-spy, James Bond, there have been calls for casting a female in the iconic role. In fact, the most recent Bond film,...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, under which a digital health ID will be provided to people that will contain their health records, and asserted tha...