Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Not much information is available on the number of cancer patients in the tribal regions of India and the common cancers in such areas. Gadchiroli, one of the most underdeveloped districts of India that has a population of 11 lakh, has an estimated 550 new cases of cancer every year. …
The district Health Department will organise a training programme on food safety norms for roadside venders and kiosk owners soon. The objective of the programme is to ensure that food or snacks sold at roadside vends are manufactured in line with food safety norms and served in hygienic conditions. Department …
About one third of new cases are caused by a new mutation of the gene in the mother or the child. In these cases, there is no previous history of hemophilia in the family. Despite improvement in the medical technologies for the treatment of hemophilia, health experts believe that nearly …
The hypothesized link between the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism continues to cause concern and challenge vaccine uptake. The objective of the study was to evaluate whether the MMR vaccine increases the risk for autism in children, subgroups of children, or time periods after vaccination. Original Source
MUMBAI: The state has earned the dubious distinction of recording the highest number of HIV-related deaths (1,509) in the country in 2018-19. It lagged behind Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka at number 3 in the previous two years. These damning statistics, at a time when the HIV epidemic across the world …
MUMBAI: The BMC may soon demolish dilapidated structures located within four of mill lands in central Mumbai as officials say these have turned into breeding grounds for mosquitoes and led to a perceptible rise in dengue and malaria cases in the neighbourhood. The proposal, drafted by the BMC’s G-South Ward, …
NEW DELHI: A drug used in India and abroad for over four years to control blood sugar has been found to also reduce kidney damage in diabetics by over 30% — a finding that could have huge impact on diabetes management. The drug, canagliflozin, a sodium glucose transporter 2 inhibitor, …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Satyanarayan Sahni Vs State of Bihar dated 16/04/2019 regarding pollution being caused by fly ash dump set up by thermal power plant at Village Kanti Nagar, District Muzaffarpur, Bihar causing damage to the public health, animal health and ecology in …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Residents of Village Jojro Ka Kheda Vs State of Rajasthan dated 16/04/2019 regarding pollution caused by Manomya Tax India Limited, District Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. A report by a joint team of Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) and the SDM, Chittorgarh …
BMC’s health workers visited households across 24 wards The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)'s public health department which conducted a house-to-house active case finding (ACF) campaign for tuberculosis (TB) control thrice in 2018, has found only 77 new cases tested positive in the city. The group of BMC's health worker visited …
The State TB Cell officials are mulling signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the postal department to transport sputum samples from Primary Health Centres to Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing (CBNAAT) laboratories in district headquarters. The move aims to reduce the time taken to test samples for Multi-Drug …
South B Member of County Assembly Waithera Chege is now calling upon Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko to intervene following complaints from residents over toxic emissions from factories along Mombasa Road. Through a letter addressed to Tobiko, Waithera says there are fears among residents that the toxic emissions could lead …
"The blasting happens every day and you can feel the houses shaking" Last week Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe visited Phola, in Mpumalanga, to hear complaints that blasting from nearby coal mines was causing cracks in houses and broken windows. The visit concluded with an undertaking to determine whether the …
Traffic-related pollution caused asthma among 350,000 children in India in 2015, second only to China, according to a Lancet study unveiled Thursday that analysed 194 countries and 125 major cities worldwide. The first global estimates of their kind published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal suggest that more than one …
The number of cases treated too has increased to 1,236 patients, who are being treated across the state. As per the Maharashtra public health department data, around 94 patients have died in the state due to swine flu till Wednesday. According to the state's health department officials, there has been …
Four million children develop asthma every year as a result of air pollution from cars and trucks, equivalent to 11,000 new cases a day, a landmark study has found. Most of the new cases occur in places where pollution levels are already below the World Health Organization limit, suggesting toxic …
Mumbai: In good news for tuberculosis patients, drug major Johnson & Johnson is providing India with a fresh grant of 10,000 courses of the life-saving drug bedaquiline, free of cost this year. The development, ending months of speculation on the availability of the drug, is significant as it is expected …
Globally, the estimates suggest that there are 170 new cases of traffic pollution-related asthma per 100,000 children every year, and 13% of childhood asthma cases diagnosed each year are linked to traffic pollution. The country with the highest proportion of traffic pollution-attributable childhood asthma incidence was South Korea (31%), the …
Researchers from IHE Delft Institute for Water Education alongside their peers from local universities in Uganda and Tanzania have found traces of 25 harmful viruses in surface water in the slums of Kampala and Arusha. Some of the 25 different DNA virus families pose health risks to residents. The study …
On the outskirts of Durban Deep, an abandoned mining town with a labyrinth of underground tunnels long since abandoned by the big gold companies, Elizabeth goes rhythmically about her work. Grinding piles of rough stones into white, gold-flecked silt on a large concrete slab, the 40-year-old is one of the …
