New Delhi: In one of the big news developments in the world of health, India on Tuesday developed its first indigenous vaccine ever. The rotavirus vaccine tackles diarrhoea that kills more than 1.6 lakh children every year. The government has announced the results of Phase III clinical trials of the Rotavac vaccine, with 56 per cent efficacy rate. The vaccine could prevent a third of all diarrhoea deaths in Indian...
06:54 PM, May 14, 2013
As the country reels under the sheer number of cases of child sexual abuse and brutal sexual attacks on little children, it bears repeating that ...
11:35 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister and the Bharatiya Janata Party's potential prime minister in waiting Narendra Modi is not just the subject of debate in television studios but in the literary world as well. There are two books on the man, both written by journalists that are now out. Wherever one stands on the political spectrum, there is no question of ignoring CM Narendra Modi and that's something publishers are...
11:59 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Even as the political debate remains charged about the execution of Khalistani convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, the man who treated him for more than 2 years in Delhi says his team's medical input should have been taken into account. He makes it clear that death row convicts' cases need to be treated case by case. ...
12:04 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Author Kishwar Desai has released a book which reflects the increasing crimes against women in the country. CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose was part of the panel discussion at the launch. ...
09:08 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Mohsin Hamid is a gifted writer and a wonderful story-teller, so it is totally to his credit that his latest novel "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" is gripping. In fact, it left me wanting to finish the book, and I did so in one sitting or two. And that's despite the fact that it's not his best work, by far. Hamid is undoubtedly one of the leading...
01:00 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju on Thursday said that he would seek pardon for both actor Sanjay Dutt and 1993 Mumbai blasts case convict Zaibunisa. But senior Supreme Court Advocate Sanjay Hegde is of the opinion that Zaibunisa is a more appropriate person to ask for clemency than Sanjay Dutt because of her old age and recent surgery. ...
07:21 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju on Thursday said that he would seek pardon for both actor Sanjay Dutt and 1993 Mumbai blasts case convict Zaibunisa. But senior Supreme Court Advocate Sanjay Hegde is of the opinion that Zaibunisa is a more appropriate person to ask for clemency than Sanjay Dutt because of her old age and recent surgery. ...
07:10 PM, Mar 28, 2013
The MLA who told the national kabaddi women's team coach that she should wear appropriate clothes - that is, a sari instead of shirt and ...
10:55 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Many call India the head injury capital of the world. Nearly 2 lakh Indians die every year of head injuries, according to NIMHANS. The simplest preventive is getting people to wear helmets. That's the key message that came out of retreat in Jodhpur. ...
12:33 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Musician Sting was in Jodhpur for a private concert, to help raise awareness and funds for the Indian Head Injury Foundation. ...
05:20 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Musician Sting was in Jodhpur for a private concert to help raise awareness and funds for the Indian Head Injury Foundation. He spoke to CNN-IBN in an exclusive interview about India being the head injury capital of the world, why head trauma is so personal a cause to him and what he loves about India. ...
05:45 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Four people have reportedly died because of swine flu in the national capital region. The Delhi government has confirmed that three people have died in its hospitals, while one person has died in Gurgaon. ...
10:18 AM, Feb 07, 2013
In this special discussion, a panel of writers from India and Pakistan talk about the growing intolerance in various section of Indian society and India-Pakistan relations. ...
11:52 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Jaipur literature festival, which is set of kick off this week, has been marred by controversy with a group of Islamic clerics protesting the presence of authors who read from Salman Rushdie's banned book 'The Satanic Verses' in the 2012 edition of the festival. The clerics have said they don't want any of the four authors to take part in the annual festival this time. ...
07:45 PM, Jan 21, 2013
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