Priya Basu, Executive Head of the Pandemic Fund at the World Bank NEW DELHI: India has made significant efforts to strengthen its healthcare infrastructure after the COVID-19 pandemic, said Priya Basu, Executive Head of the Pandemic Fund at the World Bank. Speaking exclusively with ANI, Basu highlighted the steps taken by India to be better […]
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has made substantial strides in improving India’s public health outcomes through various key initiatives and programs. NEW DELHI: On the World Health Day 2025, with WHO’s theme “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,” India continues to strengthen its healthcare systems through initiatives like Ayushman Bharat and the National Health Mission, […]
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in a group picture with MPs Aparajita Sarangi, Anurag Thakur and others at the inaugural ceremony for Heads of Delegations at the 150th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), in Tashkent on Saturday. (ANI Photo) TASHKENT (Uzbekistan): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday highlighted the inclusive and welfarist nature […]
The low public spending of less than 1% of GDP exacerbated economic hardships, forcing many into poverty. A 2015 Government of India report underscored this, stating that catastrophic healthcare costs were a major contributor to poverty, nullifying gains from income growth and poverty-alleviation schemes. The Union Budget 2025-26 has allocated an impressive Rs 1,03,280 crore […]
Inder Pal Singh Sethi, Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC) “AI platforms require massive amounts of data to build and train models. The government has such data because when you are implementing government schemes and programmes on a population scale, large amounts of data gets collected. “This data can be deployed for building large language […]