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Policybazaar signs Amitabh Bachchan for Health and Term insurance awareness
Amitabh Bachchan Sarbvir Singh, Joint Group CEO of PB Fintech,...
FSSAI issues notices over flavoured spirits, misleading energy drink claims
In a related move, the FSSAI also served notices to six major...
Hantavirus Cruise outbreak poses low pandemic risk
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,Director-General,WHO The outbreak has triggered an international response and grabbed global headlines in an echo of the last pandemic, when cruise ships became symbols of how swiftly a pathogen could move through a confined space. Still,...
Countries scramble to track virus-affected cruise passengers
In total, five people are confirmed to have contracted the virus, with another three suspected cases, the World Health Organization said. Hantavirus is usually spread by rodents but can in rare cases be transmitted person-to-person. AMSTERDAM/GENEVA:Countries...
Bajaj Finserv Health appoints Deepak J Matai as CEO
Bajaj Finserv Health, a subsidiary of Bajaj Finserv, on Thursday appointed Deepak J Matai as chief executive officer.The health-tech company offers preventive, personalised, and partner-led care, health financing, and wellness plans. ``India has 16 per cent of the...
Swasth Bharat Portal:Powering digital health transformation by unifying fragmented health systems
The SBP has brought multiple national health programmes onto a single interface, eliminating the need for multiple logins and repetitive data entry, and significantly reducing the administrative burden on healthcare providers while enhancing efficiency at all levels....
New building norms to ease infra constraints, improve access to healthcare: NATHEALTH
Welcoming the government's notification of the National Building Construction Standards (NBCS) 2026, NATHEALTH said it eases long-standing height restrictions for hospitals and permits Intensive Care Units (ICUs) beyond 45 metres, subject to enhanced fire safety...
Centre revamps Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram, adds mental health, NCD screening
Building on more than a decade of implementation, the updated framework broadens the programme's established "4Ds" approach -- defects at birth, diseases, deficiencies and developmental delays -- while incorporating emerging child health concerns, including...
Indian Health Survey: Significant increase in healthcare access across country
The median out-of-pocket medical expenditure per hospitalisation case in 2025 was ₹11,285, indicating that over half of the country's hospitalisations involve relatively low expenditure. The report stated that only a small number of high-cost cases push up the...
J&K blacklists Reliance General Insurance for 2 yrs for lapses in implementing its employees’ health schemes
It is not clear how the order of the J&K Government will be implemented as the Reliance General Insurance, which at that time was owned by Anil Ambani's Reliance Group, has now changed hands and changed its name also. It is now owned Hinduja Group and new name of...
Viksit Bharat not just about GDP but inclusive aspirations and shared prosperity: Sitharaman
Nirmala Sitharaman,Union Finance Minister Highlighting inclusivity, she said it is also about the Mogaveera fisherman on the Udupi coast having access to cold storage, digital markets and insurance, and about tribal youth in the forests of Dandakaranya having a seat...
Ajay Shah succeeds Anuj Gulati as MD&CEO of Care Health insurance
Ajay Kumar Shah, head of retail Business at Care Health Insurance, has been appointed as the MD &CEO of the company for a term of five years effective from April 26, 2026. Shah, with the approval from the IRDAI, succeeds Anuj Gulati, whose term has ended on April...