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 …
On the re-emergence of diseases that were believed to have been either eliminated or had subsided of their own accord: If you are talking about re-emergence of viral diseases, none of these had actually vanished. Some diseases appear suddenly. This may be due to certain changes like overpopulation, people's behaviour, …
• The Gujarat government is considering a proposal to carry out environmental audit in industries which manufacture or process hazardous chemicals and pose a threat to sur-rounding areas. The auditors will prepare quarterly reports on anti-pollution measures taken by such industries. • The Rajasthan government has procured a Rs 500 …
Scientists from different parts of the world are camping at the Tai forest in western Ivory Coast to track down the source of the ebola virus. The research team has set up a laboratory each in the forest and the capital Abidjan to identify ebola antibodies in captured forest animals. …
The deadly ebola virus has struck again. It has already claimed 16 lives in Gabon and going by the widespread cases of haemmorhagic fever in the region, the World Health Organization has declared it an epidemic. Of the 18 confirmed cases reported in the first week of the outbreak, 11 …
Fever that follows viral infection is believed to be a defence mechanism of the body. High temperature is thought to harm virus more than the host. However, researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, have discovered that one virus has a chilling effect on the defences of the host. Vaccinia …
pockets of virus-carrying mosquitoes have swarmed large areas of New England in north-east us . Alert public health officials who spotted the sudden spurt in mosquito population are now doubling efforts to contain the spread. What is causing alarm is that these mosquitoes are infected with potentially deadly viruses which …
an unhealthy diet, unfavourable genes, excessive smoking and obesity are factors already known to cause heart ailments. There is now an addition to this list. Researchers say that viruses too can play an role in causing heart problems. A member of the herpes virus family, cmv had long been considered …
set a thief to catch a thief, goes the saying. In a remarkable molecular biological variant, scientists have made use of one virus to prevent the growth of another. The two under discussion are the sindbis virus (non-specific rna virus that infects insects) and the dengue virus. Dengue is a …
depression in humankind could, in all possibility, be due to a virus, a similar strain of which has been found to cause the same illness in animals too. Known as the Borna virus, it was recovered from two patients in Germany and in one patient in the us . Researcher …
INDIANS Could be at the mercy of a host of new deadly diseases. A recent report by Kalyan Banerjee, director of the National Institute of Virology, Pune, warns that viral infections hitherto little known in the country are emerging. The report has cautioned against the possible entry of the yellow …
ANOTHER addition to the growing list of new maladies is the buffalo pox disease. The recent outbreak of the disease in Beed district of Maharashtra has raised concerns among Indian scientists about man-to- man transmission of buffalo pox virus. According to the scientists, there was nothing alarming about the recent …
THE mysterious, rodent-borne hantavirus, considered the third most lethal one after rabies and AIDS, has so far been unknown in India. But it Is quite possible that it might be lurking around in Gujarat which was hit by plauge 1994. Scientists at the National. Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, have …
The details of tracking down of the canine distemper disease that broke out among the lion population in, the Serengeti National Park, (Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 16) were recently made public. If it would not have been . for some smart sleuthing by medical experts, the killer disease …
At least 10 people died recently after a suspected outbreak of Ebola fever in the northeastern region of the country, according to officials of World Health Organization (wm). Ten out of 19 patients admitted to the hospital had shown symptoms of EboW which causes massive haemorrhaging, often leading to death. …
INDIA is facing a new kind of invasion. Native bee colonies in south India are threatened by a viral disease, believed to have been carried in by foreign bees. The viral infection, known as Thai Sac Brood disease, has caused devastation in the past couple of years in domestic bee …
NOWADAYS, there is increased fear that the African environment, especially the tropical forests, contains all sorts of strange and lethal viruses which are sidelining more known tropical diseases like malaria. Nothing exemplifies this better than the "predicted" emergence of the Ebola, which is a haemorrhagic fever virus which causes uncontrolled …
Using S-I-R and S-E-I-R models, it was possible to simulate two Ebola outbreaks: the 1976 outbreak in Yambuku, Zaire and the 1995 outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire. The dynamics of these models are determined by the per-capita death rate of infected individuals and the per-capita effective contact rate of an individual …
Low levels of important nutrients like selenium can turn a benign virus into its virulent form, claim American scientists. Researchers Melinda Beck and her colleagues at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, say that Keshan disease - a fatal virusinduced disease that causes inflammation of the heart muscles …
