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 …
Bangalore: Chikungunya cases continued to admitted at both KC General Hospital and Sriramapura Referral Hospital in Bangalore on Thursday with 33 fresh suspected cases reported in both hospitals. While statewide 21,805 suspected cases of chikungunya have been reported, Health Minister B Sriramulu said that he received reports of suspected cases …
Bangalore, DHNS: Instances of chikungunya continued to spiral in Bangalore City with over 260 suspected cases of the disease being reported since June 14 at K C General Hospital and Sriramapura Referral Hospital. About 36 fresh cases were reported on Wednesday. Most patients affected by the vector-borne disease were from …
According to a two-year study conducted by doctors of King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, both during the monsoons and the non-monsoon period, men between 15-40 years of age were found to be more prone to malaria. Retrospective records from hospitals in Mumbai like King …
Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Ltd (GBL), a biotech company in Pune and a subsidiary of Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd has tied up with PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) for a dedicated malaria vaccine manufacturing facility at Hinjewadi. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar will inaugurate the malaria vaccine manufacturing facility and oncology plant on …
The first case of dengue this season was reported from the Karol Bagh area today. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) staff spent almost the entire day in sanitising the area. The MCD has claimed that it was prepared to handle the situation. The administration has even started implementing measures …
Plasmodium vivax, a strain of malaria thought to be mild and non-life-threatening is potentially fatal, according to a new study. Two malaria strains, P. vivax and P. falciparum, affect humans. The latter, the dominant strain in Africa, is considered to be more virulent and deadlier. But P. vivax accounts for …
THE resurgence of malaria in some Asian and African countries has become a matter of concern for governments and doctors, as the disease and the mosquitoes that carry it are increasingly developing resistance to the traditional methods of control. Reports from Brazil and South-East Asia, in particular, show that insecticides …
NEW DELHI: Delhi's Deputy Mayor Divya Jaiswal inaugurated an "Anti-malaria and dengue programme' at Rohtash Nagar here on Tuesday. "The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has formulated an action plan for prevention of dengue which is being implemented on a war footing now,' he said.
There are several procedures to control mosquitoes by chemical, mechanical, genetical or biological means. Biological control of mosquito larvae by the application of natural animal products is one of the important techniques, which is cheap, easy-to-use and environment friendly. (Correspondence)
The health department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has drawn up an ambitious plan to combat emergencies during the monsoon. Setting up a control room in Kasturba Hospital at Chinchpokli for uniform diagnosis, investigation and treatment of ailments. The civic body has also called for extra provision of drugs, …
Danish and US researchers said on Tuesday they have found a way to way to attack malaria by knocking out a gene that helps malaria parasites reproduce inside mosquitoes. The gene
Delhi Mayor Arti Mehra has assured Health Minister Yoganand Shastri of "full cooperation' in preventing and controlling water and vector-borne diseases. Ms. Mehra said on Wednesday that though there had been a noticeable decline in such diseases, a lot was still required to be done. "The Delhi Government and the …
The alarm bells are ringing louder by the day as Earth's climate changes rapidly due to emission of greenhouse gases. We must remember that carbon dioxide emitted today will add to climate change for 150 years. Traditional knowledge can be harnessed to halt climate change, writes Ketaki Saksena Unseasonal rain …
Though malaria is yet to strike all parts of Assam in epidemic form, 27 deaths due to the disease have been reported from different parts of the State till date with the hill district of Karbi Anglong being the worst affected with 18 deaths. Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said …
Officer-in-charge at the National Institute of Malaria Research-Goa Dr Ashwani Kumar and Dr Hemant Kumar are upbeat over their experiments with bed nets treated with deltamethrine that have shown excellent results in controlling malaria. Says Dr Ashwani Kumar, "A total of 18 sites were taken up in the experiments out …
The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) yesterday launched a campaign to eradicate dengue which has reached dangerous proportions in the City. The campaign is mainly aimed at creating awareness about the disease and prosecuting action on those who have failed to comply with the CMC's request to keep their premises clean. …
during the 2007 outbreak in Kerala, the chikungunya virus mutated into more virulent forms, says a study by researchers at the Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior. The mutations, the study says, helped the virus piggyback on to a new vector. "The re-emergence of chikungunya virus in Kerala with unusual …
The prevalence of filaria has declined in East Godavari district as health authorities have intensified a drive to contain it. Its prevalence was recorded at 2.8 per cent in 1995 and it came down to 0.27 in 2006. Health authorities collected 19,640 blood smears from January 1 to April 30 …
Get a good night's sleep: bed nets designed to stop mosquitoes in their tracks are undergoing large-scale trials in India and Tanzania. The German firm BASF has developed a polymer mesh whose cross-linked structure can retain a pyrethroid insecticide inside it for 25 washes, yet still allows enough of the …
