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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Should India focus on free schools and hospitals for the poor or invest in public infrastructure? Offer tax relief to the middle class or prioritize cash transfers for those in need? Boost rural development or build global cities? These are the pressing choices that shape debates on India's welfare policies. In the latest YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey conducted in July, we explored public preferences on these questions.

On 29 October, the union government expanded the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) to provide free health insurance to all citizens aged 70 and above, regardless of income.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you’ve had a lingering cough recently, there’s a chance the culprit wasn’t Covid-19, flu or RSV, but mycoplasma pneumoniae. Levels of this milder lung infection—which can lead to “walking pneumonia"—are 10 times greater than last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) announced the acquisition of a majority shareholding in the operating company of Tree of Life on Tuesday.

cancer patients in Canada seek emergency help before their diagnosis, with more than half being hospitalized following an ER visit, according to new research.A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) on Monday showed that more than a third of cancer patients in Ontario had visited an emergency department in the three months prior to their cancer diagnosis.“This study highlights how frequently patients with cancer are using the emergency department during the diagnostic phase of their cancer journey,” said Dr. Keerat Grewal, study co-author and an emergency medicine physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.“It’s almost one in three patients who are using the emergency department prior to their diagnosis and there are certain patient populations who are more likely to use the emergency department,” she told Global News in an interview.The study included more than 650,000 patients who were first diagnosed with cancer between 2014 and 2021 in Ontario.Even though the data was limited to Ontario, Grewal said it’s a trend that’s being seen across Canada.The CMAJ study showed that among the patients with emergency department visits 90 days before a cancer diagnosis, 64 per cent visited an ER once, 23 per cent visited twice and 13 per cent had three or more visits.

Lancet that found one in three kids is seriously hooked on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and X. They’re not just casually browsing either—many are obsessively counting likes and binge-watching reels. Even more concerning, about 11% of these young users are showing signs of addiction, including feeling jittery or anxious when they can’t get their screen time fixed. Doctors said these findings were a major red flag. According to the research, the rise in social media use over the last 15 years has gone hand-in-hand with a rise in mental health issues and self-harm among kids and young adults aged 10-24. As per TOI, health experts in Delhi urged parents to find a balance, as too much screen time without guidance could negatively impact young people’s mental and emotional well-being. In the TOI report, Dr. Prashant Goyal, a senior psychiatry consultant at Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute, suggested that parents set screen-time limits and monitor their child’s social media habits. He also believed schools could play a huge role in promoting mental health and teaching kids how to use digital media wisely.

Canadian generic drug manufacturer Apotex Inc. is making plans for a potential initial public offering next year, according to people familiar with the matter.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Delhi resident Harsha Singh, 31, often visits her family in the city of Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh, near Varanasi. That gives her an opportunity to visit Anand Netralaya, a standalone, single-specialty eye hospital.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Prestige Estates Projects Ltd’s first half of FY25 was nothing to write home about. Pre-sales or bookings plunged 36% year-on-year to ₹7,052 crore as delayed regulatory approvals continued to weigh on new launches.

Chhattisgarh Police constables were injured when Naxalites, dressed as civilians, attacked them with sharp weapons at a weekly market in the insurgency-hit Sukma district on Sunday morning, an official said. Naxalites also took away the service rifles of the two personnel following the incident which took place when the police were deployed on security duty at the market in Jagargunda village, he said. A small 'action team' of Naxalites (typically comprising four-five cadres) suddenly attacked the two constables — Kartam Deva and Sodhi Kanna — with sharp edged weapons and then escaped after looting their Insas rifles, the police official said.

explosion in a general coach of the Howrah Mail near Sirhind railway station in Punjab's Fatehgarh district, Government Railway Police (GRP) officials said on Sunday. The explosion took place in a plastic bucket containing firecrackers around 10.30 pm on Saturday night when the train was headed to Howrah from Amritsar, they said. Four passengers, including a woman, were injured in the incident. They were taken to Fatehgarh Sahib Civil Hospital, said GRP Deputy Superintendent of Police Jagmohan Singh.

health insurance for all senior citizens aged 70 or above, regardless of economic status. These senior citizens will be eligible for free medical treatment up to Rs 5 lakh under this scheme. The only eligibility criterion is that the individual must be aged 70 years or above, as determined by the age recorded in their Aadhaar card, regardless of economic status. Note that Aadhaar-based e-KYC is mandatory for the enrolment and issuance of Ayushman cards for eligible senior citizens. Aadhaar is the only document needed for enrolment in the AB PMJAY Senior Citizen Scheme.

Seven people were taken to hospital with moderate or mild wounds, including «a male around 20 with shrapnel injuries», the Magden David Adom (MDA) service said in a statement on social media platform X. The MDA also shared a picture and video that showed a badly damaged building cordoned off while emergency responders swarmed the street.

While officials expected Delhi’s air quality to plunge into the “severe” category, favorable winds and above-normal temperatures helped mitigate the situation.

GoI also plays a crucial role in policy design and financing. This shared responsibility often leads to conflicts with states, intensified by political turf wars.

Hamas infrastructure and a militant operating in the area of the central Nuseirat refugee camp, and in Lebanon, where Israel stepped up airstrikes against Hezbollah in the northeast this week. Officials from the al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza said they continued to receive bodies from a barrage of Israeli airstrikes on Nuseirat camp that began overnight, leaving 21 dead, including an 18-month-old and his 10-year-old sister. Strikes on a motorcycle in Zuwaida and on a house in Deir al-Balah, also in central Gaza, on Friday killed four more people, the hospital officials said, bringing the overall toll to 25.

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh introduced their daughter Dua to the world. Taking to Instagram, Bollywood’s resident power couple shared a picture of the baby’s feet draped in red silk clothes and wrote, “Dua Padukone Singh | दुआ पादुकोण सिंह ‘Dua’: meaning a Prayer. Because She is the Answer to our Prayers. Our hearts are filled with Love & Gratitude. Deepika & Ranveer.” The couple, known for sharing the screen in films like Ram-Leela, Bajirao Mastani, and 83, recently welcomed their newborn the day after Deepika was admitted to a private hospital in Mumbai. The announcement photo quickly took the internet by storm, as fans and celebrities alike celebrated the news with heartfelt messages. Priyanka Chopra, Alia Bhatt, Malaika Arora, Rakul Preet Singh, Bhumi Pednekar, Aditi Rao Hydari, Hansika Motwani, Upasana Konidela, Arjun Kapoor, and others reacted with love heart and protective-eye emojis. Deepika’s sister, Anisha Padukone, humorously commented, “Mothering is the other thing,” while Arjun Kapoor chimed in with, “Laxmi aayi hai!!! The queen is here.” Ananya Panday shared her joy with, “Baby girl! Congratulations!”

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: India's ambulance sector is seeing an upgrade with several start-ups and the state government not just working to address the deficit but also upgrading it by launching advanced ambulances. For instance, Maharashtra’s hinterland is set to get a key medical upgrade with the state government partnering with Sumeet-SSG—a joint venture between Pune-based Sumeet Group Enterprises’s and Spanish emergency transport provider SSG Matrix—to deploy a fleet of 1,756 advanced ambulances.