BHUBANESWAR: The state government has constituted a three-member committee headed by principal secretary, Law department to identify discriminatory, derogatory, and demeaning provisions in state laws ...

At 66, Brunda Mohanty vividly remembers the painful situation when he left home as a 14-year-old boy. His mother had died early in his childhood and people in his ancestral village of Nirakarpur in ...

Father Marian Zelazek was a Nobel Prize nominee for his work to help lepers and the poor in Odisha state Christians and Hindus offer floral tributes at the mausoleum of Polish missioner Marian Zelazek ...

(Reuters) - Active in the ancient civilisations of China, Egypt and India, and rampant in 13th century Europe, leprosy still affects over 290,000 people around the world today. Here are some facts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. Leprosy is more than a biblical disease or a novelty from contact with ...