I wouldn't be around to write this story if the Bahri clan I hail from - Hindus from that part of Punjab which is now in Pakistan - had not stopped...

In 2008, Arti Chauhan (name changed to protect identity), mother of a 12-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy and a 6-year old girl, became aware that two...

Panic gripped Manipur in July, 2016 when a four-year-old girl -- after suffering high fever, convulsions, and slipping in and out of consciousness...

Of late, I’ve gone retro in my choice of cereal, preferring sorghum and a variety of millets over wheat and rice, staples I’ve grown up eating. In the...

As many as 26 percent male and 35 percent female students from India’s most disadvantaged castes and tribes in 245 engineering colleges would not be...

Out of the 2.77 crore population of the state, only 0.06 percent was found abusing drugs, which is the lowest percentage across the nation,” said...

Between 2010 and 2015, funding shortfalls to local governments nationwide—rural and urban—were as high as half the sanctioned amount and annual...

With 10 percent of 3.63 trillion medicines consumed worldwide in 2015, India is the world’s third-largest medicine market. It stands to scientific...

In January this year, the government sought public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking. These laws include increasing the minimum smoking age...

In March 2015—in response to a drop in sales as taxes more than doubled over four years—India’s leading cigarette company ITC Ltd. shortened its...

Sharad Tripathi of Meerut developed diabetes five years ago, at 33, “no thanks to the stressful life of a sales person that involves a lot of travel,...

An Indian today has over twice the odds of dying from a non-communicable disease than a communicable disease, according to the World Health...