Rupsa Chakraborty

India, July 15 -- Despite being Maharashtra's most populous city with over 12.7 million residents, Mumbai recorded only eight First Information

MUMBAI, July 16 -- The BMC's latest monsoon report issued on Tuesday revealed that Mumbai's malaria cases have already surpassed last year's

Doctors attributed the surge to intermittent rainfall and the early onset of the monsoon, which created ideal conditions for mosquito breeding

The hospital has submitted a proposal to the state’s health department, highlighting its aim to make the services, typically confined to expensive private hospitals, accessible to women from all socio-economic backgrounds. Once green-lit, the department will start functioning from 2026

India, July 18 -- In a first for Maharashtra, Mumbai's government-run Cama and Albless Hospital is set to launch a dedicated gyno-cosmetic unit

Mumbai, July 21 -- Several Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and state-run blood banks are at risk of being closed or downgraded to mere

As per NTBC’s 2015 guidelines, if a blood bank fails to meet the 2,000-unit collection target annually, the blood bank’s No-Objection Certificate (NOC) can be cancelled, and it can be converted into a blood storage centre

Within an hour, the KEM hospital, closest to two of the stations where the blasts had occurred, saw its halls filled with the injured.

Nearly half the world’s snakebite deaths happen in India. Now, climate change is pushing a neglected crisis into a dangerous new phase. Rupsa Chakraborty reportsIn September 2025 Manju Prakash, a 41 year old software engineer in Bengaluru, slipped on his Crocs to step outside. A juvenile Russell’s viper, one of India’s deadliest snakes, had coiled inside one of his shoes. Prakash, who had lost sensation in one leg from an earlier surgery, never felt the bite. An hour later his family found him unresponsive with froth at his mouth. He was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.The incident made national headlines across India. Snakebite has long been regarded as a problem confined to remote villages and Prakash’s death in a semi-urban neighbourhood of India’s Silicon Valley challenged that notion.When flooding swept through Bengaluru in 2022 after 131.6 mm of rainfall in a single day, venomous snakes surfaced inside Electronic City’s technology campuses.“During the flooding, even the IT companies had snakes in their campuses and offices—something that had been unheard of,” says Nagaraj, an anaesthesiologist at Srinivasa Hospital in Bangalore. “Ambulances were stationed at the tech parks for nearly three days while snakes were being rescued.”Over 1500 km away in central Chhattisgarh, the shift is more dramatic. Yogesh Jain, a public health physician and founder of the Jan Swasthya Sahyog community health programme, has watched the snakebite season stretch from May into December, when it was once limited to the monsoon months of July to September.“There are clearly pointers to the fact that things are changing,” Jain says. “And by the time we actually start seeing the trend, it’s too late.”These observations align with what climate science predicts. Rising temperatures extend the number of months snakes remain active, while altered monsoons flood their …

A landmark study has produced the most detailed atlas of venomous snakes ever assembled, finding that climate change is pushing medically important snake species into new territories worldwide and increasing the overlap between snakes and people in several densely populated regions.Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases on 21 May,1 the study mapped the distributions of all 508 medically important snake species worldwide at a resolution of one square kilometre. This is the first time that all such species, including poorly documented ones, have been modelled together.The analysis, vetted by an expert panel of more than 30 snake specialists, is the largest snake occurrence dataset ever compiled. Led by researchers at the World Health Organization's …