A cholera outbreak in Bargarh’s Goudpali village infected 19 people, including a child. Three patients remain critical.

Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez believed that aging is a result of ceasing to pursue dreams. He advocated for the ...

A free March 15 event at Plumb Grove Mansion shares Irish music, legends and the 19th‑century history of Irish canal workers in Clear Spring.

Tea is one of the rare drinks that transcends class and culture. From a roadside stall in a dusty village to the polished ...

Florence Nightingale never set foot in India. Yet from a sickbed in London, armed with mortality data and an unstoppable pen, she rewrote the country's sanitary code, slashed soldier death rates from ...

When the Akpab Okoyong Water Scheme was commissioned in 2007, it promised life, dignity, and a reliable water supply for the ...

In her book 'Daktarin Jamini Sen', Sen's great-niece Deepta Roy Chakraverti takes readers on a journey through the life of one of the first Indian women to enter the medical profession.

Medicines and protocols designed to mitigate the impact of a nuclear or chemical attack were distributed across the Middle East ahead of the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to a director of the ...

Kiwi humanitarian Hanna Taylor Moller shares her journey from disaster zones to World Vision NZ, empowering women across the ...

The Maryland Street project showed the world a better way but at home their message was not heeded ...

They had heard of a new doctor, a woman from Bengal who was often there. They said she was as fierce as a kukri41 but clever like the memsahibs. And that she didn’t turn anyone away. And so, the poor, ...

A Grim Reality in 1859 In the year 1859, a staggering sixty-nine out of every thousand British soldiers stationed in India succumbed to illness—not due to combat, but from cholera, dysentery, and ...