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Clear filtersGlobal Handwashing Day is marked each year on 15 October. Its purpose is to encourage the habit of washing hands and, through that simple practice, to raise the standard of public health. Because clean hands help stop th...
World Egg Day is marked every year on the second Friday of October, and in 2026 it fell on 9 October. The day is used to spread awareness about the nutritional value of eggs, which are an affordable source of high-qualit...
New Delhi was the venue for the 11th meeting of the BIMSTEC Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (JWG-CTTC), hosted by India. Talks centred on joint action against cross-border crimes such as...
India co-hosted the launch of OneSCD, the Global Partnership to Advance Equity and Transform Sickle Cell Care, during the 81st UN General Assembly in New York. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited blood disorder in...
At a side event of the UN General Assembly in New York, India reaffirmed its commitment to eliminate Hepatitis B and C as public health threats by 2030. India is strengthening prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment...
The International Day to Protect Education from Attack is observed every year on 9 September to stress the need to safeguard education during armed conflict; its 2026 theme is “Can Education Survive Attack? The Resilienc...
Bhutan has become the first country in the World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region to eliminate dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem. Rabies is a viral infection of the central nervous system...
The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $230 million loan to modernise Chennai’s water supply and sanitation infrastructure. Under the Chennai Climate-Resilient Water Security and Sewer...
Tamil Nadu will replace the 87-year-old Tamil Nadu Public Health Act, 1939 with a modern, comprehensive law to meet present and future health challenges. A new provision will make unsupervised home births outside hospita...
IntroductionShowcasing phenomenal transformation in rural public infrastructure and women-led economic empowerment, the Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Jal Shakti on 18 August 2026 announced that the Jal Je...
IntroductionIn a landmark public health intervention, the Supreme Court of India on 18 August 2026 directed 19 States and Union Territories (UTs) to declare cancer a 'notifiable disease' to ensure early epidemiological d...
IntroductionTo decentralize food quality testing and curb widespread adulteration across rural and semi-urban markets, the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) on 17 August 2026 la...
