Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta on Thursday said people do not trust the Delhi Government's claim that the water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is clean and safe for drinking and demanded that water samples be collected by the Board from all the 12 zones of the Municipal …
Following the release of a Lancet report alleging presence of a drug-resistant superbug in water supply in the capital, the Union Health Ministry and local authorities held a meeting on Tuesday. Delhi Government health official R.P. Vashisht noted that though there were reports about the finding of a drug-resistant superbug …
In October 2010, a virulent South Asian strain of El Tor cholera began to spread in Haiti. Interventions have included treatment of cases and improved sanitation. Use of cholera vaccines would likely have further reduced morbidity and mortality, but such vaccines are in short supply and little is known about …
The Opposition Congress in Himachal today accused the government of playing with health of the citizens by supplying contaminated drinking water in several parts of Shimla and sought immediate steps before locals fall victim to serious water-borne diseases like cholera. Leader of Opposition Vidya Stokes, who raised the issue through …
The environmental problems confronting Indian cities today have arisen because millions of people have been forced to live in illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation and other basic urban services. This is the result of two factors. The first is the legacy of the colonial city characterized by inequitable access …
This paper reviews the literature on health in the informal settlements (and “slums”) that now house a substantial proportion of the urban population in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Although this highlights some important gaps in research, available studies do suggest that urban health inequalities usually begin at birth, are …
Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech to develop and sell vaccines for pneumonia, diarrhea. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund two Indian firms
MUMBAI: Following complaints of a spurt in cases of jaundice and flu from a residential pocket along S V Road in Borivli, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ( BMC) has collected water samples to check for possible contamination. Residents of the housing societies in the pocket, located opposite the police lock-up, …
Climate change is expected to have large impacts on health at low latitudes where droughts and malnutrition, diarrhea, and malaria are projected to increase. The main objective of this study was to indicate a method to assess a range of plausible health impacts of climate change while handling uncertainties in …
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) has invented a device that will ensure safe drinking water for victims during natural calamities like floods. It has developed a
SALEPUR: As many as 73 people have been affected by diarrhoea in Baselikata village under Narasinghpur block. Nonofficial sources, however, put the figure at more than 150. Receiving information, a fourmember medical team rushed to the village and set up a medical camp. Today, another eight patients were admitted to …
AN INDIAN healthcare joint venture between drugmaker Merck & Co and UK-based charitable entity Wellcome Trust plans to develop heat stable oral rotavirus vaccine to prevent diarrhoea in babies in developing countries. It plans to develop oral vaccines in thin strips or granules to improve its stability, ease of use, …
Bokaro, Jan. 18: The fear of diarrhoea has gripped Porabad in Silphor village under Babudih panchayat of Chadankyari block. Fourteen people, including three children and eight women of the village, had to be rushed to a private nursing home today suffering from diarrhoea and nausea. Villagers suspect that they might …
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) plans to promote its watershed projects as a livelihood option for landless farmers/labourers and women in southern districts of Tamil Nadu. It will organise a two-day residential workshop on January 20 and 21 at Theni in which non-governmental organisations partnering with NABARD …
PURI/NABARANGPUR: The scourge of diarrhoea is back claiming three persons each in coastal Puri and predominantly tribal Nabarangpur districts. Many more are fighting for lives. Three persons died today and five were battling for lives in Puri infectious diseases hospital (IDH) after bouts of diarrhoea, while another 55 are undergoing …
Until the 1940s, the irrigation and drinking water needs of India were met by rivers, ponds, lakes, dugwells, and rainwater sources. However, in the middle of the 20th century India continually faced two daunting challenges: providing food for an ever-growing population and decreasing the burden of highly prevalent water-borne diseases, …
Global population growth exerts stresses on river basins that provide food, water, energy and other ecosystem services. In some basins, evidence is emerging of failures to satisfy these demands. This paper assembles data from nine river basins in a framework that relates water and food systems to development. The framework …
