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 …
New Experiment Shows Modified Parasites Can Be Used To Build Resistance In People In a daring experiment in Europe, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needles to deliver a
MUMBAI: One more person succumbed to malaria on Wednesday, taking the toll of monsoon-related ailments since July 1 to 42. According to civic health officials, the victim was a 30-year-old man from Matunga (W). He was admitted to civic-run Nair Hospital and diagnosed with mixed malaria. Ninety-three more patients were …
While mosquitoes are creating havoc in Bangalore spreading dreaded dengue and chikungunya diseases, the BBMP has shown on records that a whopping Rs 15 crore has been spent to control mosquito menace in the last four years. According to Congress MLA Roshan Baig, the BBMP has shown on records that …
Health Minister Anoop Mishra today told the state Assembly that 17 patients were suffering from dengue at Selwa village in Balaghat district, while four deaths were suspected from the disease. Replying to call attention notice by Ramesh Bhatere (BJP) and others, Mishra said 17 patients were found to be suffering …
Pune As many as 87 dengue cases have been reported from different parts of Pimpri-Chinchwad so far in this month. Similarly, 102 persons have been affected by malaria till July 22. The figures of dengue and malaria cases in July are the highest for any month recorded by the medical …
State health and civic officials have found the incidence of malaria, particularly the malignant variant, has increased in the city compared with last year, despite anti-mosquito drives by the civic body. The officials suspect patient resistance to the drug chloroquine is the main reason for the spurt in malaria cases. …
THE government has decided to take off the shelves an anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, in India that is already banned the world over. Sold locally under several brands, the drug when used as a single drug can make malaria parasites resistant to the medicine. The move comes in almost after two …
In an attempt to prevent Aedes mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya, a new technology developed by the Oxford University will be lab-tested in the country to check the breeding of the vectors following a green signal from the Union Government. Scientists at Oxford University and its offshoot company Oxitec …
Deepal Trivedi, Ahmedabad July 19: Oxford University is all set to lab-test its technology in India to check breeding of vectors and thereby prevent mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and chikungunya in the country. A few months ago, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) had carried out a detailed investigation …
Pune The National Institute of Virology (NIV) has observed three types of dengue virus circulating in Pune and while this does not mean an increase in the severity of the disease, it most certainly means "more dengue related activity in the region and hence more cases." Dr Cecilia Dayaraj, deputy …
Pune Dengue and malaria continue their surge in Pimpri-Chinchwad without any tangible efforts from the civic body to curb the menace. While malaria has crossed the 300 mark, dengue cases have reached 187 since January. Even as it rained throughout Tuesday, the medical department of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation is …
JEYPORE: With at least 20 malarial deaths in the last one week, the disease is taking epidemic proportions in Jeypore and Koraput sub-divisions under Koraput district. As many as 3,000 persons suffering from malarial fever were admitted to health centres in these sub-divisions. Of these, 80 per cent cases are …
As many as 1,028 cases of chikungunya and 402 dengue cases have been reported in the State since January 1 this year. While Bangalore urban has registered highest number of 298 chikungunya cases, Dharwad district tops the list of number of dengue cases. Health Minister B Sriramulu informed this to …
Come monsoon and with it we hear the news of an outbreak of various seasonal diseases, particularly the vector-borne ones. What is also not surprising is that the civic body
SHILLONG: Meghalaya has recorded 12,726 malaria cases, most of them from Garo Hills, in the first half of 2009, a two-fold increase compared with last year. Though 20 people have died of the disease this year, there is concern that the malaria situation may worsen in the next six months. …
It is now clear that the Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS), which surfaced in the open, with 24 cases reported in one hospital alone, is more widespread in the City. Many more cases have been reported in other city hospitals. Adults too have reportedly contracted the viral disease. Doctors explain that …
Mumbai: The dreaded chandipura virus, known to give very little time for recovery, has struck Nagpur and its adjoining districts claiming seven lives in two weeks. The state has declared it an epidemic now and started massive anti-vector campaigns in the severely affected villages. The chandipura virus, caused by bite …
Rashmi Menon, Bangalore: Already challenged by a rising swine-flu threat, the State health department is now having to battle a resurgent dengue menace. Lurking to strike hard is the dengue shock syndrome (DSS), which has claimed one life so far. No less than 24 cases have been reported in just …
Bokaro, July 6: The sting is deadlier than the bullet. As if battling Maoists was not challenging enough, security personnel, particularly CRPF jawans, posted in the coal belt have another enemy to take on
A total of 257 people have lost their lives due to suspected meningococcal meningitis in Meghalaya since 2008, the State Government said yesterday. In 2008, 130 people (10 of them confirmed) have died due to the disease. In this year, 127 (four of them confirmed) people have died so far. …
