Is India Winning the War Against Rising Non-Communicable Diseases? The latest health statistics paint a concerning picture: diabetes, heart disease, and cancer rates are climbing, impacting millions across the country. From rural healthcare access to the burgeoning urban health crisis, challenges remain significant. This week, we delve into the crucial initiatives underway – government policies, technological advancements in telemedicine, and the rising role of preventative healthcare – that aim to address this national health emergency. Experts weigh in on the effectiveness of current strategies and the critical need for increased public awareness campaigns targeting lifestyle diseases. Are these efforts enough? Explore Abtak.com's in-depth coverage on healthcare in India and discover the vital information you need to protect your well-being and the future of public health. Stay informed; stay healthy.
The child was bitten on his right eye (Representational) Kannur: A five-year-old boy who was bitten by a stray dog last month died at the Pariyaram Medical College Hospital here on Saturday despite being vaccinated. Harith, son of a Tamil couple, was bitten by a stray dog on May 31 near the Sree Narayana Park in Kannur city. The child was bitten on his right eye and left leg and was vaccinated on the same day at the Kannur District Hospital. This is the fourth incident of a child dying of dog bite despite receiving the vaccination in the last few months. In May, seven-year-old Niya, a Kollam native, died of rabies after being bitten by a dog, despite receiving the vaccination. In April, a six-year-old girl -- Ziya Faris -- died of rabies in Malappuram district despite being vaccinated. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) Show full article Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world Follow us: Kerala News, Kerala News Latest, Kerala News Today
HYDERABAD: When the Supreme Court on Friday restored the Animal Birth Control (ABC) protocol and ruled that sterilised and vaccinated dogs must be released back into the same locality they were caught from, animal welfare workers in Hyderabad said the judgment merely reaffirmed what they had long demanded. On the ground, however, they allege the practice of shifting dogs out of affluent colonies and abandoning them in poorer neighbourhoods continues unchecked. The order overturned the August 11 directive calling for mass removal of strays into shelters and reaffirmed that relocation was unla ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu Minister Duraimurugan criticized TVK chief Vijay for not personally visiting families affected by the Karur stampede, suggesting he is "afraid to come out." This follows TVK members connecting Vijay to victims via video call. Tamil Nadu Minister Duraimurugan questioned Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay for not visiting the houses of families affected in the Karur stampede, saying that the actor-turned politician is "afraid to come out". Duraimurugan's statement follows the v ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 15 (PTI) Two people died and four others were injured after a fire broke out at a house in east Delhi's Old Govindpura area on Tuesday evening, an official said. Police have identified the deceased as Tanveer (28) and Nusrat. A call was received at Jagatpuri police station at 8.46 pm regarding a fire incident at Band Gali, Old Govindpura, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Prashant Gautam said. When a police team reached the spot, it found that 10 people were trapped inside a residential building that caught fire, the DCP said. With the help of police personnel and fir ...Read More >
Lucknow: In 2023-24 and 2024-25, animal birth control programme succeeded in sterilising and vaccinating 2,84,641 stray dogs against rabies. Moreover, the state established 17 permanent ABC centres, with two additional centres approved for Lucknow and Ghaziabad, on a comprehensive budget of Rs 34 crore. Additionally, the department issued 5,333 pet dog licences this year, promoting responsible pet ownership and community safety. Taking note of Supreme Court's latest directives issued to local bodies to manage dog bite cases and keep the local population safe, urban development department is ta ...Read More >
India's dog bite crisis is spiralling into a serious public health challenge, with numbers that experts describe as deeply alarming. In 2024 alone, the country recorded 37.17 lakh dog bite cases -- averaging more than 10,000 incidents every single day. These figures reveal a widening gap between the Centre's goal of eliminating rabies by 2030 and the realities on the ground. India's dog bite crisis is escalating at a pace that public health experts find deeply alarming. In 2024 alone, the countr ...Read More >
New Delhi: Protest at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) against a recently announced fee hike, the long-standing suspension of students' union elections and calls for administrative accountability have entered their sixth day, with students boycotting classes and staging sit-ins at the Bab-e-Syed gate (the iconic entrance of the varsity). The fee structure for different courses has witnessed a sharp revision. Students say the hike ranges from 25% to over 60% across various programmes. Many claim they first learned of the revised fees only while trying to pay through the university's online ...Read More >
Tens of thousands of people were gathered in sweltering heat in Tamil Nadu state's Karur for a political rally by Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Vijay, when the stampede began. Vijay, one of India's most successful actors, launched his political party, Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, in 2024. He's running for office in the state election scheduled to be held in early 2026. A 65-year-old woman, identified as Suguna, was the latest victim to succumb at the Karur Government Medical Colle ...Read More >
Mumbai : Zigly, (Cosmo First Limited) India's first tech-enabled omnichannel pet care brand has reinforced its mission to eliminate rabies, ensuring a safe and healthy environment for pets, pet parents and everyone in the community. As part of its community drive, Zigly will provide free anti rabies vaccination across its pet care centres, pan-India on September 28 for all pets. This initiative is in line with the World Health Organisation's (WHO) World Rabies Day theme - 'Act now: You, Me, Community', which aptly describes Zigly's mission in rebuilding and strengthening rabies control progra ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 6 (PTI) The Congress on Monday hit out at the Shiv Sena (UBT) over the latter's accusation that the grand old party was using regional outfits as "crutches", and not treating them as "equal stakeholders" in the Opposition alliance. Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant criticised the editorial in the Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana', alleging that the newspaper's executive editor, MP Sanjay Raut, appears confused on several occasions between his roles as a politician and journalist. In a strongly-worded post on X, he noted that while a journalist's duty is to point out s ...Read More >
New Delhi: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan's viral cybercrime awareness caller tune, part of the Central Government's campaign to spread awareness about rising cases of cybercrime and fraud, has been discontinued as the campaign officially ends this Thursday. According to NDTV reports, the government has decided to withdraw the pre-recorded message -- which played each time a user made a phone call starting today. The megastar had lent his voice to the initiative aimed at educating the public about digital safety. The caller tune, which played before calls connected, featured Big B advising listen ...Read More >
Mysuru: Mysuru district has seen a significant rise in dog bite cases in the last six months. The district reported 9,428 dog bite cases from Jan to June this year. The department of health has stepped up efforts to raise awareness against dog bite cases like rabies, a notified fatal viral disease that poses a serious public health concern.According to sources, of the 9,428 dog bite cases reported in the district, 1,763 cases were children between 1 and 12 years old, 840 were adolescents between 13 and 18 years old, and 6,825 were people above 18 years old. They underwent treatment in govt-run ...Read More >
Coimbatore: Coimbatore MP Ganapathy P Rajkumar said a monitoring committee headed by him with the district collector and the Coimbatore Corporation commissioner as members will be formed to prevent rabies and enhance sterilization of stray dogs in the district.Citing TOI's report (Sept 25) on 25 dogs testing positive for rabies in two months in the city and its suburbs, Rajkumar said on Thursday that the committee will include stakeholders and members from govt departments, such as animal husbandry, and animal welfare organizations. Rajkumar said the corporation is actively working on expandin ...Read More >
The controversy surrounding actress Gouri Kishan has sparked a wave of solidarity across Tamil Nadu's media and film fraternity. Following the viral incident in which a journalist asked the actress an inappropriate question about her body weight during the press meet of her upcoming film Others, both the Chennai Press Club and the South Indian Artistes' Association (Nadigar Sangam) have issued official statements condemning the behaviour and extending support to the actress. In an official stat ...Read More >
VMPL New Delhi [India], August 14: Ellenox, India's largest venture studio, is accelerating its global push in enterprise AI development. In the past year, the company has grown its headcount by 50% over the last year, bringing in senior AI talent from Amazon and Google to power its next phase of expansion. Already delivering AI transformation for Fortune 50 leaders in fintech, cloud computing, consumer social, and sports-tech, Ellenox has built systems that replace costly call centers with natural-voice AI agents and deployed end-to-end social media pipelines capable of scaling global brand ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 27 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday held 'Janta Darshan' at his residence in Lucknow to address public grievances and concerns. Earlier on Sunday, CM Yogi Adityanath called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi. Later, CM Yogi Adityanath held a courtesy meeting with the BJP National President and Union Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda. In a post on X, CM Yogi shared, "Today, a courtesy meeting was held with the Hon'ble Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah Ji in New Delhi, and his guidance was received. Heartf ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court on Friday scaled back its order to catch and remove tens of thousands of stray dogs from the capital, after feasibility questions about the sheer scale of the exercise. TEMPORARY VICTORY A stray dog is seen on a street following the verdict that modified an earlier order to relocate canines like it in India's capital New Delhi on Aug. 22, 2025. EPA PHOTO The court earlier this month handed city authorities a deadline of eight weeks to round up all dogs, ordering that they be held in shelters and not released. Indian media had suggested there were as many a ...Read More >
Chennai: A post-graduate student at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) suffered a skull fracture when she fell while being chased by a pack of dogs on the hospital campus on Tuesday. The student, who was on her way to the parking lot, was chased by around five dogs. The doctor, who panicked, tried to run but tripped and fell. She suffered a fracture of the zygoma, a part of the skull bone near the cheek. "The bone in the zygomatic arch is displaced and broken into several pieces ...Read More >
At least 29 people were killed and about 50 were injured at a rally held by Tamil actor and politician Vijay in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Hindu newspaper reported on Saturday, citing the state's Health Minister Ma. Subramanian. Large crowds had gathered for the meeting, part of Vijay's ongoing state tour for his political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, the report said. Vijay, who goes by only one name, is campaigning ahead of state elections that are to be held early next ye ...Read More >
Chennai: Actor-politician Vijay's deliberate late entry at the public rally in Tamil Nadu's Karur on Saturday has been blamed for the horrible stampede that killed 41 people. However, the FIR has not named the popular star of Tamil film industry, founder of TVK party with ambitions of winning next year's Assembly elections. Criminal cases have been initiated against three party leaders -- district secretary Mathiyazhagan, state general secretary Bushi Anand and state joint secretary CTR Nirmal Kumar. They have been booked under Sections 105, 110, 125 (b), and 223 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhi ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Congress national general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala Monday kicked off a feedback-cum-review exercise in Karnataka, aimed at evaluating the performance of the govt led by chief minister Siddaramaiah and to quell murmurs of dissent.The move also comes amid speculation of a change at the helm and a cabinet reshuffle, but Surjewala firmly denied any connection to changes at the top."This is purely an organisational exercise," Surjewala said. "Unlike what is being projected -- which is a figment of the media's imagination -- these meetings are not to collect feedback for a change ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: EC on Thursday revised the rules relating to counting of postal ballots, making it mandatory for all postal ballot papers to be counted before the penultimate round of EVM/VVPATs counting is taken up.The new practice will be first implemented in Bihar where assembly polls are due in Nov.This restores the arrangement prior to May 2019, when EC had changed the guidelines to allow EVM counting to proceed regardless of postal ballot counting stage. The 2019 change did not rule out chances of EVM counting being completed before postal ballot counting. INDIA bloc had, during the 2024 elec ...Read More >
Srinagar, June 28: The Jammu & Kashmir Forest Department has achieved a remarkably high score of 92.97% for Dachigam National Park in Management Effectiveness Evaluation (MEE) exercise, conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change. Minister for Forest, Ecology & Environment, Javed Ahmed Rana, has praised the officers of the Wildlife Department for this outstanding achievement in conservation of protected areas in ecologically sensitive Jammu and Kashmir. He referred to the accomplishment as a benchmark to be emulated in ot ...Read More >
BENGALURU: With the death of a 22-year-old kabaddi player due to rabies in Uttar Pradesh, the BBMP is now focussing on prevention of the disease through vaccination and awareness camps and by launching a drive to round up suspected rabid dogs in its limits. The palike's dog catching squad isolated 1,107 strays and found 673 of them to be rabid in the past four-and-a-half years. A senior veterinarian from BBMP's animal husbandry department said whenever dog bite complaints are received, the canine is caught and kept under observation and certain tests conducted. "Normally in ten days, the ra ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 17: The world of marketing is undergoing a seismic shift, and it powered by artificial intelligence. As AI-enabled marketing tools become more intelligent and widely adopted, the very structure of marketing teams is beginning to change. Routine tasks that once required human input are now being executed faster, more accurately, and at scale by smart systems. According to Nipun Taneja, a performance marketing veteran with over $100 million in managed ad spend, the future of marketing isnt about replacing people but evolving how we work. With tools like Vibelets - a modu ...Read More >
Chennai: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Kanimozhi, on Tuesday speaking about the Karur stampede that claimed 41 lives, said actor-turned-politician and TVK chief Vijay "should have listened to the police." "Should have listened to the police... the police advised the party to stop a few metres from the venue... we all must listen to the police," the DMK leader said speaking to NDTV. Referring to the one-person commission set up by Chief Minister MK Stalin she said, "we must wait for the panel report." Earlier in the day speaking to reporters she said, "It has torn apart families and the ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath called on union home minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Sunday. Later, CM Yogi Adityanath held a courtesy meeting with the BJP national president and union minister Jagat Prakash Nadda.In a post on X, CM Yogi shared, "Today, a courtesy meeting was held with the hon'ble union home and cooperation minister Shri Amit Shah Ji in New Delhi, and his guidance was received. Heartfelt thanks for providing your valuable time!""Today, a courtesy meeting was held in New Delhi with the honourable national president and union minister Jagat Prakash Nadda J ...Read More >
Hyderabad: International Asteroid Day (IAD) is observed on June 30 every year to raise public awareness of asteroids and the importance of defending Earth against potential threats from the asteroid belts. This day has been sanctioned by the United Nations. Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the sun. Even though these rocky remnants are the leftovers from the formation of our solar system that occurred about 4.6 billion years ago, they still orbit around the sun like planets. There are lots of asteroids in our solar system, and most of them live in the main asteroid belt, which is ...Read More >
Bulandshahr: A heart-wrenching incident has come to light. State-level Kabaddi player Brijesh Solanki, a resident of Farana village in UP's Bulandshahr, tragically died of rabies after being bitten by a puppy he had rescued. The heartbreaking incident took place three days ago. A disturbing video of Brijesh Solanki suffering from the effects of rabies is making the rounds on the internet. The footage shows the Kabaddi player experiencing a violent rabies attack, visibly writhing in pain while lying on a bed. In the video, Solanki can be seen screaming in agony. Puppy Bites During Rescue Ear ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Bringing down the curtain on the proceedings initiated against misleading advertisements for medicinal products, the Supreme Court has closed the case filed by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) against Patanjali Ayurved and its founders.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and K V Viswanathan said no further hearing was needed as the court had already passed various orders and the purpose of the case had been achieved. "By various orders, the prayers of the WP have been achieved and do not survive for further consideration. Hence, the writ petition stands disposed of. Liberty is al ...Read More >
Ahead of the Garh Ganga Mela in Hapur, UP CM Yogi directed officials to ensure no obscene songs are played during cultural programs. He urged inclusion of folk artists and emphasized safety, cleanliness, CCTV monitoring, and emergency preparedness. No obscene songs should be played during cultural programs: UP CM Yogi Adityanath ahead of Garh Ganga Mela in HapurUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath held a meeting with district administration officials and public representatives regarding ...Read More >