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Mumbai: India’s increasing demographic of the elderly needs long-term care, daily support and palliative services. While national policies emphasise care at home, government data show that access to such services remains limited.
With older adults projected to account for
Kachchh: India is ageing fast. The population aged 60 and above in the country is projected to more than double from 100 million in 2011 to 230 million in 2036. By last year, the elderly made up 11% of the country’s population; with ...
New Delhi: On August 19, 2025, the government claimed that the annual blood requirement for the county was met the previous year. This, despite several reports and studies on shortage of blood in various parts of the country and significant stat...
Outside the blood bank of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, in 2022.
New Delhi: In November 2025, when 16-year-old Manisha Kumari went with her mother to get a blood transfusion in Sadar Hospital in Jharkhand’s Giridih district, she was told that her blood group—O negative—was not available.
Manisha is a thalassemia patien...
Pune: One in four water samples collected from India’s household tap connections did not meet microbiological standards, according to a 2024 assessment of the Jal Jeevan Mission. While 76% of samples passed laboratory tests, 24% did not, according to the Ministry of Jal Shakti’s national