Taking on bad air, one month at a time
Centre's Plan Not To Focus On Just Emergency Measures The Centre is drawing up a `month to month' plan to deal with air pollution in Delhi and the national capital region rather than concentrating just
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Infant dies of dengue, 4 more cases suspected
COIMBATORE: A one-year-old baby from Tirupur died of dengue at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Sunday morning. The child's health reports confirmed the cause of her death on Sunday night. There
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Malnutrition among kids doubles in decade
From 9.2 per cent in 2005-06, the figure has touched 15.6 per cent in a latest surveya The government may have been making efforts to tackle malnourishment, but a majority of the measures, it seems,
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Waterborne diseases claim 30 lives; affect over 6,000
Pune: Water borne diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid and viral hepatitis affected as many as 6,012 people in the state while claiming 30 lives in 2016, against the 5,175 cases and seven deaths recorded
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156 households connected to solar grid in Pench buffer
Nagpur: Over 156 households have been connected to the solar mini-grid project in Ghatpendhri in the buffer zone of Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Maharashtra. It is the first village in the buffer zone
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Forest check-posts get solar panels
JAIPUR: If there is anything which matters since the conceptualisation of tiger reserves and 'Project Tiger', is tiger. For years, forest guards have worked as sentinels in remote areas of forest and underwent
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Government nod for ratifying International Solar Alliance Agreement
ISA was launched jointly by the Prime Minister Modi and the France President on November 30 last year in Paris on the sidelines of the 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP) meeting of the United Nations
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Toyota Kirloskar take steps to reduce vehicle CO2 emission
Japanese carmaker Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd., (TKM) has taken steps to reduce CO2 emission of its cars made in India to zero by 2050, said a top official. All the future models of TKM will be hybrid
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Japanese encephalitis cases rise in Tamil Nadu
CHENNAI: The mosquito menace is acute and, apart from dengue-causing aedes and malaria-causing anopheles, public health experts are worried about the 'culex' which causes Japanese encephalitis (JE).
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Stop work on Kudankulam units: NGO
Says the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board has violated its own norms on ‘plant siting’ Poovulagin Nanbargal, a non-governmental organisation, has written to the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB),
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Kenya: Death Invades Lake Kenyatta As Drought Ravages Lamu
A wafting, pungent smell of decomposing flesh assaults nostrils more than 100 metres away. An army of scavengers takes charge both in the air and on land, feasting on carcasses of hippopotamus, tortoise,
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Chikungunya strikes tribal areas, nine test positive
Nashik: Chikungunya virus has struck Suryagadh village under Mani primary health centre of Surgana taluka and nine persons have tested positive till now. Two patients with suspected Chikungunya symptoms
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Sudan: Ten People Die of Acute Diarrhoea in Sudan's El Gezira
Wad Medani — Ten people died of acute watery diarrhoea in a hospital in El Gezira state on Sunday and Monday. The hospital has received dozens of infected cases. A medical source said that the emergency
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Rwanda: Two Killed in Mining Accident
Two people died and another was seriously injured in two separate mining accidents last week. The victims had sneaked into mining caves in Rubavu and Gasabo districts. The deceased were at the time
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Rwanda: New Disease Resistant Cassava Varieties to Be Multiplied
Rwanda Agriculture Board (RAB) says that about 20 million cuttings of new cassava varieties are expected to be multiplied on 1000hectares during season 2017A (started in September) and 1000hectares in
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East Africa: Region Leads in Clean Energy Uptake Across Africa- Report
East Africa's economies top countries in sub-Saharan Africa in injecting clean energy into their national grids, through new projects in wind and solar. The latest report of Climatescope, the clean
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Tanzania: Over 1 Trillion/- to Electrify Villages Countrywide
Over 1trn/- has been allocated for implementation of the Rural Energy Agency (REA)'s phase III projects, which are expected to electrify all villages in the country. According to Energy and Minerals
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Ethiopia: Authority to Build Two Additional Dams On Awash River
The Awash Basin Authority (ABA) plans to build two additional dams which could help prevent water shortage at the region that has over 18 million inhabitants. Authority Director General Getachew Gizaw
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Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe 'Pays Military Debt to China With 35 Zim Jumbos'- Report
Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe has reportedly been embroiled in yet another controversy after it emerged that she allegedly used the country's animals to settle a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
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Tanzania: 205 Billion/- Mega Water Projects Finalised in Mwanza Region
Mwanza — The government has completed the construction of large-scale urban water projects worth 205bn/- that will benefit about 734,000 people in Mwanza Region. Other three water projects are at initial