GUWAHATI, May 29: In a meeting at the Don Bosco Institute held on May 29, the ant, a NGO based in Chirang district released the findings of its study conducted in 4 districts of Assam earlier this

PATNA: Bihar food safety commissioner-cum secretary, health, Sanjay Kumar has been selected for the prestigious 'World No-Tobacco Day Award 2013' by the World Health Organization (WHO).

GUWAHATI, May 27: On May 31 every year, the world observes World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), also called as World Anti Tobacco Day (WATD), that is promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO).

With the only government-run production unit for yellow fever vaccine in Kasauli out of order for nearly two years, most authorised vaccine centres in the country are fast running out of stock.

The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) of Sri Lanka has implemented an integrated air quality management project, 'Blue Sky 2020', to minimize emission of greenhouse gases and resulting adverse

About one-third of the world’s population — 2.4 billion people — will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a joint WHO/Unicef report issued on Monday.

The report — Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2013 update, warns that at the current rate of progress, the 2015 millennium development goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of the 1990 population without sanitation will be missed by 8 per cent, or half a billion people.

Pune: A national forum on tuberculosis (TB) has been launched to raise awareness on the need for better control of condition.

Hyderabad: With only five per cent of injections used for immunisation and the remaining 95 per cent for therapeutic use, children are often subjected to unnecessary injections, say paediatricians

One person dies of Tuberculosis every minute in India.

Accham became the first district in the Far-Western Region to provide toilet access to all by declaring itself Open Defecation Free (ODF) on Wednesday.