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 …
As many as 1,240 samples of drinking water in five districts-- Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Kaithal and Yamunanagar-- have failed purity tests in the last one year. They were not found safe as per the parameters. As per the report of the Intermediate Reference Laboratory (IRL), out of the 2,772 samples …
Seven-year-old Anjali, a frail girl walking with a bucket of sewage and waste water for discharging it in an open field, is a pitiful sight. This has become the fate of several others at Bhagpati village and adjoining areas, where the residents have been forced to become a scavenger, flushing …
Social activist Jacqueline Lundquist tells Madhur Tankha that “in the U.S., people get drinking water even in their bathrooms” Jacqueline Lundquist, a social activist and the wife of the former United States Ambassador to India Richard Celeste, is now on an ambitious mission to provide unadulterated water to people living …
Six years have passed but there was no implementation of the then Punjab government's plan to ensure smooth provision of potable water to Sialkot city thus the people are suffering from several water-borne diseases. They have to use contaminated water being supplied by the Sialkot Tehsil Municipal Administration through rusted …
The recurrence of waterborne disease continues reducing everywhere in the rural areas as a result of effective activities being conducted by the concerned government and non-government organisations in recent years. The rural people have achieved laudable success in health, hygiene, sanitation, nutrition and safe drinking water during the past five …
Following the recent outbreak of water–borne diseases like malaria, jaundice, typhoid in certain pockets of the newly created Longding district which reportedly claimed more than hundred lives, a series of health camps were organized in the affected villages such as Niaunu, Niausa, Longkhaw, Sennua, Pongchau and Khasa from November 29 …
Efficacy and safety of a two-dose regimen of bivalent killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccine (Shantha Biotechnics, Hyderabad, India) to 3 years is established, but long-term efficacy is not. We aimed to assess protective efficacy up to 5 years in a slum area of Kolkata, India.
Poor sanitation is one of the most embarrassments of the world. Open defecation, cheap sanitation and hygiene practices claim the health and lives of human beings and creates an unfriendly environment. Nations are today taking up many efforts to encourage people to improve their sanitation/hygiene behavior. The Government of India …
The Arunachal Pradesh government has sounded alert in Longding district following outbreak of malaria and jaundice which, has taken an epidemic form claiming scores of lives since past several days. According to a report of District Medical Officer (DMO) of Longding Dr Lowang, there were only 14 cases of death …
People of four unions of Nachole upazila in Chapainawabganj district have been showing interest in using eco-san toilets as non-government organization NGO Forum with the association of another non-government organization Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organization (ASSEDO) has started implementing a project titled 'Promotion of Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene …
With large parts of the calamity-hit Ganjam struggling for access to safe drinking water, a mobile drinking water initiative has brought succour to the Phailin-hit populace. i-PURE, a mobile water treatment and electrification unit, has been drawing scores of villagers in the district ever since it was launched on November …
Governor Chaudhry Sarwar opened on Monday a water purification plant to formally launch the ‘Clean Water Save Life’ campaign. The first two plants in the campaign were commissioned at Darul Shafqat schools for boys and girls here. Sarwar, who drank the first glass of water from the plant, lamented that …
People of as many as 18 districts of Assam are prone to several water–borne diseases following a fact that arsenic in ground–water of these districts is found beyond permissible limit (0.05 mg/litre as per WHO norms). The Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department of Assam in a latest official communiqué submitted …
The Satbhaiya village in Parwanipur-1 is in grip of diarrhoea. After almost everyone complained of sickness on Saturday morning, people were taken to a health centre. “All of a sudden the entire village was suffering from diarrhoea,” said Dil Bahadur Regmi, a local, adding that symptoms such as headache, vomiting …
Climate change : Evidence, impact on vector borne diseases and remedial measures - A presentation by Ramesh C Dhiman at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
Climate change and health: Recent advances and challenges - A presentation by Sagnik Dey at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
The fifth South Asian conference on sanitation started today with a focus on ways to end waste-related problems. The conference with the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) as the organiser is expected to help solve sanitation problems in the region. Inaugurating the conference, Vice-President Paramananda Jha said, “Disadvantaged groups of …
A cholera outbreak in central Mexico has risen to 159 confirmed cases and spread to four states as well as the capital, the country's health minister said on Monday. One death has been attributed to the outbreak, the ministry said as it launched a nationwide public health campaign aimed at …
Severe diarrhoea claimed lives of two and five hundred and sixty-two have taken treatment in three health centre in last six days in the city. The hospital sources said that the diarrhoea affected patients were sent to Bandar Upazila health complex as they felt sick due to drinking WASA supplied …
India will soon be better armed to combat Japanese encephalitis (JE), a viral disease that affects the brain. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will launch the first ever indigenous JE vaccine on Friday. Produced under PPP by Bharat Biotech with Pune’s National Institute of Virology (NIV), the vaccine is …
