The notoriously backward states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh-popularly referred to as Bimaru-are not so bad after all. When it comes to amniocentesis or killing female
Indians progress faster towards AIDS from their HIV seropositive status compared to their counterparts elsewhere in the World, a study conducted in Mumbai has revealed. While it takes an average 13
The Union government on Friday decided to provide Rs 20 crore to Andhra Pradesh as central assistance towards damage caused by the cyclone and floods in Rayalaseema region of the state in
The calamities of 2001 hit the people of rural Karnataka the hardest. A bad drought, the neera agitation and the Supreme Court ruling against rural weightage are only some of
Nagaland's concern over influx problem is well reflected in provisional Census Report for the year 2001, as Wokha district of the state has registered the highest percentage to decadal growth of
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today ordered notice, by special messenger to T.A Majeed, proprietor of Fair Pharma, Ernakulam, on a public interest writ petition seeking to stop him from
Himachal Pradesh will have a new wildlife and zoo policy by the end of this fiscal, says a senior official. There are 32 sanctuaries besides two national parks in the State. A four-day census of the
Having failed to complete the identification of persons below the poverty line in the city of Delhi in last one year, the city government is now planning to move the Supreme Court to seek more time
The death toll from an Ebola virus outbreak in the central African countries of Gabon and Congo has risen to 18 and health specialists fear more cases may
A new technology, produced by associate professor of Chemistry Kathryn Uhrich, is transforming the drug aspirin. Polyaspirin is the new drug, made from about 100 individual aspirin molecules in a
Bucking the slowdown, Indian Pharmaceutical industry was on a high trajectory with over 12 percent growth even as it confronted players abroad on issues such as ' patents vs patients ' to provide
Twenty thousand stray dogs will be sterilised every year in order to control rabies in the Capital. This was decided at a meeting held under the chairmanship of the Health and Development Minister
The 1994 epidemic in Surat was a milestone in the development of the country's solid waste management sector. The Supreme Court even issued guidelines on the matter. However, efforts of the local
The Union Carbide plant is long dead. In place of a once bustling insecticide factory, now stands a web of direlict steel pipes and rusty dials.The tank that released the 42 tonnes of methyl
By the time the first anniversary of the earthquake approaches on January 26, 2002, there will hardly be any physical signs in Kutch district of the calamity that took place on Republic Day last
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has announced that sanitation will be the theme for the next 'gram sampark abhiyan' to be launched on April 14. "Even the 'nagar sampark abhiyan' to be
The Karnataka slum clearance board plans to take up " Nirmala Jyothi ", a programme for slums, in 21 major cities and towns except Bangalore, at a cost of Rs.750 crores. The programme will be
Vociferous protests from the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has forced the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre to stop charging them for their treatment. At a meeting of the Bhopal
Hundreds of poor families in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state are spending a soggy and miserable Christmas after torrential rains triggered floods and landslides that killed 43
The Supreme Court issued a mandamus to the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) and Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City to suspend dumping garbage along the banks of Bagmati river along the Balkhu-Chobhar
