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 …
Aug. 12: At least 30 people are suffering from diarrhoea at Chandrapuram under Aswapuram mandal on Thursday. According to sources, the condition of all the patients was said to be stable. They were admitted to the Bhadrachalam government hospital.Due to rains, bad weather and drinking unsafe water diarrhoea spread in …
NIZAMABAD, Aug. 11: Nizamabad city has been affected by diarrhoea.Negligence of municipal corporation officials led to the contamination of drinking water with 20 persons hospitalised and several others affected with diarrhoea. Of them, the condition of eight persons is said to be critical.Leakage of the drinking water pipeline near drainage …
Hyderabad, Aug. 10: Almost one person in every 10 families of the state has been affected by one or another infectious disease this monsoon season.Even as the people grapple with various ailments, civic authorities have not taken adequate steps to contain the menace. Besides swine flu, which has assumed serious …
Visakhapatnam/Rajahmundry/AdilabadAug. 10: The monsoons and the floods have left many regions in the state vulnerable to outbreak of seasonal diseases including diarrhoea, malaria, cholera, jaundice and chikungunya.According to the assistant malaria officer in Adilabad, Mr B. Venkateshwarlu, 92 positive malaria cases have so far been identified in the district.Six persons …
Narasimhulupeta (Warangal), Aug. 9: Diarrhoea is rampant in remote tribal villag-es in Narsimhulapet mandal of Mahbubabad revenue division in Warangal district.Sanitation has deteriorated due to the recent heavy rains. Drinking water has been contaminated and seasonal diseases like malaria, diarrhoea and viral fevers have spread in interior places.People are suffering …
Adilabad, Aug. 6: The incessant rains which lashed the district have contaminated drinking water sources in rural and tribal areas and caused diarrhoea and jaundice.Poor sanitation in villages and Adivasi hamlets (gudems) and lack of chlorination further worsened the situation.The rains have forced people to depend on hand pumps for …
RAIPUR, 1 AUG: For the first time since November 2000 when the state came into existence, Chhattisgarh government has now been dispatching doctors by choppers to tribals stronghold interiors that has saw dozens of deaths since March due to diarrhoea and other diseases, the health minister said yesterday. ``We are …
Peshawar: The death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 on Sunday as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water. The rescue effort was aided by a slackening of the monsoon rains that have caused the worst flooding in …
BERHAMPUR: With the death of two more persons on Tuesday, the toll due to diarrhoea in the last one week went up to 12 in the tribal- dominated Buratal panchayat under Patrapur block in Ganjam district. Cases of diarrhoea were first reported in Adapathar village and it later spread to …
Three people including two minors have died after suffering from a severe bout of diarrhea in far-western Nepalgunj so far. Jasmin Halwai,5, of Salyanibag, Nepalgunj -5 and Taniya Halwai, 5 of Nepalgunj-4 died as they were being rushed to a nearby hospital while Kalawati Budhathoki, 65, of Tulsipur in Dang …
Visakhapatnam, July 26: Stating that major concerns such as cerebral malaria and filarial were showing a downswing, the district medical and health officer (DMHO), Dr Swarajyalakshmi, said that seasonal diseases such as diarrhoea and amoebiosis were showing an upswing. Talking to this newspaper here on Monday, Dr Swarajyalakshmi said,
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra): A cholera-like epidemic is widely spreading in Bhingar and the adjoining camp areas in Ahmednagar and about 500 persons have fallen sick of it, the district civil hospital sources said today. Contaminated water supply and lack of cleanliness said to have caused the epidemic. The epidemic has claimed …
Apurva Close to 500 people, including 234 children have taken ill from 40 villages in Kotputli in Rajasthan in the last five days, even as the Health Department is yet to ascertain the cause. While officials stated that they suspected a waterborne disease or perhaps even chemical contamination and had …
Sales of water purification systems usually pick up with the onset of the monsoon as susceptibility to various diseases, including water-borne ones, rises. Kent RO Systems Ltd chairman Mahesh Gupta says, "Having a water purifier does not solve the problem. The real solution lies in selecting one which fulfils the …
ROURKELA: Safe drinking water has become a dream for people of several interior pockets of the coal-rich Hemgir block under Sundargarh district where fear of gastroenteritis outbreak is stalking menacingly. Amid several incidents of diarrhoea in remote villages, the Sundargarh district health administration is on its toes to arrest the …
Ahmedabad: Water contamination, eating in unhygienic surroundings and careless personal hygiene have spawned a host of bacterial diseases in the city. The health meter of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) strongly packs in a word of caution for denizens this monsoon. Cholera cases have doubled, gastroenteritis cases have climbed while typhoid …
As the count of patients affected with diarrhoea touched 133 in Shimla on Friday, the state government issued an advisory across the state against consumption of drinking water from natural sources and checking open defecation, especially around water sources. The main reason for diarrhoea outbreak in Dhingu Baodi locality of …
MORE than 40 persons have been affected by diarrhoea and vomiting in Dharmathupatti village, near Bodi, in Theni district. Many of them have sought treatment at the government and private hospitals. During the past three days, many of the villagers were found to be suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting in …
Mumbai: This monsoon, all schoolchildren have been forewarned and are forearmed for the rains. At the Monsoon and Child Health, a monsoon preparation campaign conducted by Billabong High International School, Santa Cruz, Dr Bhupendra Awasthi meted out advice to students about how to avoid falling ill this monsoon. “Apply mosquito …
The objective of this study was to evaluate and quantify the economic benefits attributable to improvements in water supply and sanitation in rural India.
