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Probe ordered into 1,499 abortions registered in Eluru district in 2025
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (203+ words) Published - February 15, 2026 08:34 pm IST - ELURU Eluru district registered 1,499 abortions in 2025, according to the Medical and Health Department, and the Collector has ordered a probe into the incidents. The district has 115 scanning centres, including 102 private diagnostic centres, said officials from the…...
Pope Leo calls for ’deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (398+ words) Published - November 05, 2025 04:50 pm IST - VATICAN CITY Pope Leo XIV called for "deep reflection" in the United States about the treatment of migrants held in detention, saying that "many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing…...
Clear the myths, recognise organ donation as a lifeline
6+ mon, 3+ day ago (223+ words) Updated - August 13, 2025 12:30 am IST Organ transplantation is one of modern medicine's greatest triumphs. A miracle of 20th century medicine, organ transplants are the gold standard treatment for terminal and irreversible organ failure. Yet, in India, more than half a million lives…...
Going beyond the blame game: understanding sterilisation and its limits
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (883+ words) Every year, India performs roughly 5-6 million tubectomies and fewer than 30,000 vasectomies'each stitched under hard fluorescent lights by obstetricians, surgeons and nurses who rarely see the limelight. Their labour has averted an estimated 350-400 million births since 1980, silently enlarging per capita GDP…...