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 …
If all goes well, India will have its first-ever oral cholera vaccine available in the market by the end of this year. In a recent development, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has invited applications to commercialise the vaccine which can be administered orally, like the polio vaccine.
Taking preventive measures with an apprehension of outbreak of contagious disease cholera and stop the onset and spread of communicable disease, Collector Nishant Barvade declared Hoshangabad district as the notified area. This order would be effective for the next six months. According to information, the sale of stale sweetmeat, rancid …
Fatehabad: The health authorities have swung into action after detection of incidents of jaundice in Jakhal town of Fatehabad district. A door-to-door survey has been ordered in the affected areas of the town. Residents allege that cases of hepatitis are coming from several localities of the town. However, the Meena …
MUMBAI: That contamination of tap water in Mumbai has jumped two-fold in the last year, as shown by the State Public Health Laboratory in Pune, is not surprising. Even as the parched city is going through the worst crisis in decades, residents of several areas have been complaining to the …
Mumbai: After jaundice, it is now gastroenteritis. The problem is worse, doctors say, because new cases are being reported every day. At least 1,175 patients were treated for the disease in March, according to BMC records. A health department official said 39 people were admitted to hospitals on Tuesday and …
The heat has not diminished this year in spite of occasional drizzle, with the mercury level going up in the last few weeks. According to hospitals in the City, cases of diarrhoea, skin and respiratory tract infections are on the rise. For instance, there has been a marginal increase in …
A growing body of scientific evidence strongly suggests that climate change has enormous and diverse effects on human health. Rises in temperature and sea level & extreme weather events such as floods cause water logging & contamination, which in turn exacerbate diarrhoeal diseases. Information on health impacts can guide the …
Environmental risk factors, especially air and water pollution, are a major source of morbidity and mortality in China. Biomass fuel and coal are burned for cooking and heating in almost all rural and many urban households, resulting in severe indoor air pollution that contributes greatly to the burden of disease. …
Official records show a downward trend of jaundice outbreak in the state capital, but regular reporting of cases has kept the health department on the tenterhooks. Though the frequency of cases reported in the hospitals has reduced as compared to January when the outbreak took place, danger still looms large. …
Two billion tons of human and animal waste and industrial pollution are dumped into waterways every day around the world, according to reports released in Nairobi, Kenya, for the 17th annual World Water Day
Today, in commemoration of World Water Day, people all over the world are joining together to raise awareness about the importance of one of the most basic and fundamental components of human life: water. Water is a precious resource, and a reliable supply of clean water is one of the …
SOLAPUR: An epidemic of cholera mainly in the slums in the eastern part of Solapur city has affected 4,048 people, leaving nine dead in the last one week. Speaking to The Hindu Solapur district Collector Jagadish Patil said,
Mumbai: After having braved the water crisis, the 400-odd families of Panchshil housing society in Worli now face another water woe. The society has been getting contaminated water supply for the last one month, which was become a major health hazard for the residents. Many of the buildings occupants have …
This document contains the presentation by Rais Akhtar on Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010. This paper highlights the impact of climate change & variability including rising temperature, heavy precipitation, increase in heat wave and cold …
The risk of gastrointestinal illness to swimmers from fresh sewage and non-sewage fecal sources at recreational beaches was predicted using quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA). The QMRA estimated the probability of illness for accidental ingestion of recreational water with a specific concentration of fecal indicator bacteria, here the geometric mean …
The Himachal government accepted in the Assembly on Wednesday that the jaundice outbreak in Shimla was an outcome of the contamination of drinking water with sewerage water in various residential localities. The government also revealed the poor condition of sewerage disposal in the town and stated that of the nearly …
A trial of a new oral cholera vaccine in Kolkata is promising but, as Patralekha Chatterjee reports, a vaccine is only one weapon in the battle against the disease.
