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Friday, August 15, 2025
TopicHeath ministry

Topic: heath ministry

3 imported cancer drugs made duty free, but cold shoulder to health sector overall in budget

Trastuzumab deruxtecan, osimertinib & durvalumab to become more affordable for cancer patients. But no new initiatives or push to ongoing projects in the healthcare sector in the budget.

Centre asks states, UTs to ensure unlock ‘carefully calibrated’, no crowding in markets

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla urged all states and UTs to ensure the five-fold strategy of Covid appropriate behaviour test —track-treat and vaccination.

New Delta plus variant not yet ‘variant of concern’, been in Europe since March: govt

NITI Aayog Member V K Paul said the govt is keeping track of how Delta plus variant progresses in other countries, and if it is present in India, to search where all it is there.

Covid-19 fatality rate declines to 1.87 per cent, cases now stand at 29,75,701

The death toll climbed to 55,794 with 945 fatalities being reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the health ministry data.

On Camera

Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

So far, India has responded to his threats with a measured, diplomatic, strategic, and multi-dimensional approach. Now, it needs to react firmly.

Be ‘atmanirbhar’ and go ‘swadeshi’: PM Modi’s clarion call to nation on 79th Independence Day

New Delhi: 'Atmanirbharta' and a call for 'swadeshi' were the mainstay of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s longest Independence Day address Friday, at a time...

Be ‘atmanirbhar’ and go ‘swadeshi’: PM Modi’s clarion call to nation on 79th Independence Day

New Delhi: 'Atmanirbharta' and a call for 'swadeshi' were the mainstay of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s longest Independence Day address Friday, at a time...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.