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 …
Jaipur: It’s shocking but true that in the state, 42% dengue cases were reported from Jaipur alone during the past eight months. In the last seven days, 22 dengue cases were reported across the state but 11 of them belonged to Jaipur. Not a single week has passed from January …
GURUGRAM: Three more cases of dengue have been confirmed in the city, taking the total count to four this season. While a 30-year-old man from Bhondsi village and a 17-year-old girl from Sun City area have been detected with dengue, another man in his 30s from Naurangpur village has been …
With 34 fresh cases reported last week, the total number of malaria cases has reached at 207. On the other hand, the total number of people affected by dengue is 117 while the figure for chikungunya stands at 64, according to a data released by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation …
Cuttack: Dengue patients continue to get admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital here with the disease affecting 233 people since July 15. In the past 21 days, on a daily basis more than 10 persons have been tested positive for dengue at the hospital. This has taken the number …
SHIMLA: Union health minister J P Nadda’s home district, Bilaspur, is grappling with epidemic prone diseases, with maximum cases of dengue and scrub typhus reported from Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh this year. Of the 611 dengue positive cases detected in the state so far, 314 are from Bilaspur while 277 …
JAIPUR: The state government has issued orders for observing every Sunday as ‘dry day’. Relax, beer guzzlers, wine lovers and regular tipplers, the order is not related to booze. Health department will observe ‘dry day’ to prevent mosquito-breeding in the state. It will encourage people to keep their air coolers, …
NEW DELHI: Delhi government has advised private hospitals and nursing homes to increase their capacity by up to 20% of the approved bed strength in view of increasing dengue, malaria and chikungunya cases. The tariff levied for such beds shall not be more than 50% of the lowest category at …
Anti-larvae teams of the Health Department and the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation detected 15 dengue larvae cases on Thursday during its ongoing drive against vector-borne diseases. Out of 15 cases, 11 were found in desert coolers. Four teams, led by Raj Kumar, Gurwinder Singh, Harjit Kumar and Gurpal Singh carried out …
In a first, Australian researchers have successfully protected an entire city from dengue outbreaks by deploying captive-bred mosquitoes that are unable to spread the deadly virus. Mosquitoes bred to carry naturally-occurring Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents the transmission of viruses, were let loose over 66 square kilometres of Townsville, Queensland in …
HYDERABAD: Dengue is virtually on the prowl in Hyderabad and Telangana this year. If official statistics are any indication, dengue prevalence over Telangana has more than doubled so far this year (January 1 to July 20) as compared to the corresponding period last year. In the last week alone, 56 …
AGARTALA: Tripura health minister Sudip Roy Barman said on Tuesday that cases of malaria are decreasing in the state. While addressing an event on prevention of communicable diseases at Pragna Bhawan here this afternoon, the state health minister said two people have died of malaria and one person died of …
HYDERABAD: Coinfection of dengue with other similar ailments like malaria and chikungunya makes matters worse for patients and diagnosis difficult for doctors. With cases of coinfection on the rise, doctors say they are finding it difficult to diagnose the health issue. As all the three pathogens causing malaria, dengue and …
NEW DELHI: The capital’s three civic bodies have time and again complained about lack of money when it comes to executing key projects. However, it has emerged that north corporation has failed to utilise most of the funds sanctioned under the dengue control programme in the last one year or …
Australian researchers say for the first time an entire city has been protected from viral disease dengue. Captive-bred mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria were released in the city of Townsville, where they mated with local mosquitoes. By spreading the bacteria Wolbachia, which hinders dengue transmission, the city has been …
KOLKATA: In a desperate attempt to enforce strict dengue prevention rules at city’s construction sites, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has served ‘stop work’ notices to as many as 50 under-construction buildings across the city. At least three major housing projects were not spared from the civic wrath. According to Atin …
GURUGRAM: At least 530 houses, where clean water was found in tanks, plant pots or other containers on the roof or in ditches near the premises, have been issued notices by the Civil hospital’s chief medical officer (CMO) to get rid of the same. The move has been taken to …
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has found 21 construction sites, four schools and a BRTS workshops, which are the most prominent sites of mosquito breeding. The civic body has been conducting an inspection of mosquito breeding sites since a week. Administration charge worth Rs 2.65 lakh has been levied on these …
PUNE: The number of chikungunya cases may not be on a drastic rise like dengue, but it still is keeping medical practitioners and citizens in the state on an alert. Between January 1 and July 7 this year, 178 chikungunya cases were reported from across Maharashtra. In the same period …
Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited (FGII) has launched a group insurance policy aimed at providing financial support in battling vector-borne diseases like malaria, dengue, Zika virus etc at an affordable premium. The policy is named ‘Future Vector Care’. The insurance policy is available to any person below the age …
Health Department sends show-cause notices, seeks explanation The Health Department has sent show-cause notices to 18 government offices, including the Punjab Secretariat, Mini Secretariat, Kendriya Sadan, Chandigarh Police headquarters and the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB), after dengue larvae was found in desert coolers installed there. “We have sent notices to …
