Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Occupational Diseases, 17/07/2019. The details of Occupational diseases in respect of Mines as reported by the mine management to Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS)
Condemned to a life of hard labour and meagre return, about 90 per cent poor children of the Chandigarh city remain deprived of the fruits of freedom. Although no official surveys have ever been
Some 2.2 crore under-five children of Bangladesh will be administered polio vaccines under the 12th National Immunization Day (NID) early next year.The under-five children willbe administered two
The rural women used to receive wheat under the VDG programme. Now over 27,000 rural women in five districts of Bangladesh are receiving vitamin-enriched coarse atta instead of wheat under the same
Alarmed over reports of massive inflow of synthetic milk into Delhi through clandestine methods from Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, the Delhi government has decided to station "special squads" led by
The United Nations Population Fund has launched its sixth country programme for India converting the period 2003 to 2007. The highlight of the US dollars 75 million programme would be a special focus
The scientists' team at the Central Tobacco Research Institute (CTRI), under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Government of India, at Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, headed by Dr K.
Pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has received the green signal from the US regulatory authority to market its new dosage form of Amoxicillin, which is used to target bacterial infections in
Obesity is spreading to parts of the world that once worried about getting enough to eat.Within the past decade obesity rates have shot up by 50 per cent, rising from 200 million people in 1995 to
Black rats of the type that spread bulbonic plague could have triggered one of the biggest outbreaks of hte SARS epidemic, according to an article in Britain's Lancet. The theory suggests that rats
The Epidemiology unit of the Health Ministry is to launch the catch-up round of Measles-Rubella vaccination (MRV) programme for children and young adults aged between 10 to 19 years to prevent future
