As the people living in a densely populated slum here begin their morning chores, drawing water for their animals and sweeping out the dust that has settled overnight, hundreds of student volunteers ...

A few days ago, Ramesh Ferris took his first ride on a motorbike. Born in India and raised in Canada, Ferris made the journey into rural India to meet Ruksa Khatun, the 3-year-old girl who is the last ...

A child receives polio drops during an Indian polio eradication programme in Jammu. Picture February 19, 2012. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta If India, with all its problems, can eradicate polio, any country ...

Good news does not always flow freely in India. Too many children still go hungry. Violence against women endures. Inflation is soaring, and gay sex was just criminalized, again. But today India got a ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - India may be winning the fight against the most dangerous strain of polio, with no cases reported this year in a badly hit region seen as a key global battleground against ...

Eleven years after India wiped out polio, a public health victory that once seemed impossible, the country stands at a crossroads. The government's reported plan to gradually shut down the National ...

On 24th October every year, World Polio Day is observed all over the globe, in memory of Dr. Jonas Salk, the scientist who was instrumental in developing the first successful vaccine for polio. This ...