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 …
Ebola's economic toll could reach US$32.6 billion ($41.12 billion) by year's end if the disease ravaging Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone spreads across West Africa, says the World Bank. The outbreak has the potential "to inflict massive economic costs" on those three countries and its closest neighbours, according to the …
The AU Commission on Thursday launched a 10 million dollar agreement with the U.S. government to support ASEOWA programme on Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that AU Director for Social Affairs, Dr Olawale Maiyegun, and the U.S. ambassador to AU, Dr Reuben Brigety, …
The World Health Organization adjusted its number on Thursday for the total death toll in the West African Ebola outbreak, revising down its previous total by 14 after an adding error. The WHO said 3,865 people had died by the end of Oct 5, not 3,879 as it said on …
India is among the top five contributors to the UN Ebola response with a contribution of U.S. $ 12.5 million, according to a fact sheet released by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry here. The U.S. with U.S. $ 113.8 million tops the list to the UN Ebola response. It …
The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed 3,879 people out of 8,033 cases by the end of Oct. 5, with no evidence that the epidemic was being brought under control in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The situation in Liberia continued to deteriorate, with a …
The outbreak of Ebola could cost the West African economy $32.6bn (£20.3bn) by the end of 2015 unless the epidemic is quickly contained,the World Bank has warned. The Bank said the future path of Ebola was highly uncertain and failure to adequately contain the virus would have potentially catastrophic consequences …
LAGOS, Nigeria — People here are shaking hands again, kissing, hugging, touching. These days, shops are open, people are working, and children are finally going back to school. That's because Nigeria — Africa's most populous country — is officially Ebola-free, the health ministry said, even as the deadly virus rages …
FAO today launched a new programme to urgently assist 90 000 vulnerable households in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose food supplies and livelihoods are threatened by the disruptive effect the Ebola epidemic is having on rural economies, agricultural activities and markets. The Regional Response Programme for West Africa will …
UNITED NATIONS (AP) A United Nations committee has approved $49 million in funding for the global body's unprecedented emergency mission to combat Ebola. The General Assembly budget committee on Tuesday adopted a resolution supporting the U.N. secretary-general's funding request, which is expected to cover operations through the end of December. …
Europe will almost inevitably see more cases of the deadly Ebola virus within its borders but the continent is well prepared to control the disease, the World Health Organization's regional director said on Tuesday. Speaking to Reuters just hours after Europe's first local case of Ebola infection was confirmed in …
THE United States(U.S) Government Tuesday reacted to criticisms regarding its alleged ‘half-hearted’ response to the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa, saying it has mounted a ‘whole-of-government response that would cost at least $1billion, in addition to the $461million it reportedly spent in fighting to contain …
Madrid (AFP) - A Spanish nurse who treated two Ebola victims at a Madrid hospital has contracted the virus herself in the first case of contagion outside of Africa, health officials said Monday. "She is a health professional who took care of the infected with the disease who were repatriated …
International agencies and governments are fighting to contain the world's worst Ebola epidemic since the disease was identified in 1976. The virus, which causes fever and bleeding, has killed at least 3,439 people. Here is a timeline of the outbreak: March 22: Guinea confirms a previously unidentified hemorrhagic fever, which …
The 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa has taken a devastating human toll. Although the outbreak originated in rural Guinea, it has hit hardest in Liberia and Sierra Leone, in part because it has reached urban areas in these two countries, a factor that distinguishes this …
Outbreaks of Ebola virus can cause substantial morbidity and mortality in affected regions. The largest outbreak of Ebola to date is currently underway in West Africa, with 3944 cases reported as of 5th September 2014. To develop a better understanding of Ebola transmission dynamics, we revisited data from the first …
A man has died in Uganda's capital after an outbreak of Marburg, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, authorities said on Sunday, adding that a total of 80 people who came into contact with him were quarantined. Marburg starts with a severe headache followed by haemorrhaging and leads …
Handling medical waste generated by an Ebola patient proved to be one of the contingencies that U.S. hospitals were unprepared for, a top U.S. health official said on Saturday, adding that it "took longer than we would have wished" to fix the problem. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and …
Sierra Leone recorded 121 deaths from Ebola and scores of new infections in one of the single deadliest days since the disease appeared in the West African country more than four months ago, government health statistics showed on Sunday. The figures, which covered the period through Saturday, put the total …
Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by October 24, and a 50 percent chance it could hit Britain by that date. Those numbers are based on air traffic remaining at full capacity. …
ACCRA - China on Monday provided Ghana with 5 million yuan (833,000 U.S. dollars) worth of equipment and medical supplies to help the country battle Ebola outbreak which has claimed over 3,000 lives in African countries. Sun Baohong, the Chinese ambassador to Ghana, urged the international community to stand together …
