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 …
After the first downpour of monsoon season in Karachi, the outbreak of viral and bacterial diseases, like gastro-enteritis, has been reported from various health facilities of the metropolis due to the failure of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) to provide clean drinking water to the consumers. The influx of …
Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) health officials are awaiting culture test reports of the three persons who tested positive for cholera in the hanging drop test. All three are at Kasturba Hospital under treatment. Areas where they stayed have been screened by health officials. On Tuesday, GT Hospital in …
The district administration of Qilla Abdullah has ordered closure of educational institutions for three days because of an outbreak of gastroenteritis. According to provincial Minister for Revenue Zamarak Khan Achakzai, more than 600 people, mostly women and children, have been affected and one woman has died. The provincial health department …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is gearing up to tackle the cholera menace after 25-year-old Motiben Chavhan tested positive for the mild form of the disease. Motiben, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar in Cuffe Parade, is recuperating at the civic-run Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli. Dr Jairaj Thanekar, executive health officer …
Tiruvannamalai: Around 35 people of T.Velur near Thanippadi were afflicted with diarrhoea on Monday. Since a number of diarrhoea cases reported from T.Velur, Deputy Director (Health Services) Chithra has organised a medical camp in the village. All patients with the symptoms of diarrhoea were treated at the camp and 14 …
The holy city of Benares in India, or Varanasi, is known for its Ghats, the sites where the River Ganges purifies the bodies of the live bathers and the ashes of the cremated dead. Close to them is the huge square mouth of the city sewerage system, which disgorges its …
Increased frequency of natural disasters caused by global climate change is creating a whole new level of crisis and challenges in terms of providing safe water and sanitation facilities, speakers at a consultation meeting said yesterday. The people of char islands, haor areas, offshore islands, hill tracts and the tea …
A special report on "Aila", the cyclone that struck on May 25. Now, with 400 km-long embankment breached, people of Sunderbans live with threat of a high tide causing further damage. It calls for a long-term policy on behalf of the islanders for saving the Sunderbans. See Also Report: Boiling …
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Hyderabad: As many as 5,426 cases of acute diarrhoea, including 21 deaths, were reported in Hyderabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Visakhapatnam, Kurnool, Kadapa, East Godavari, Warangal and Medak. Hyderabad stood on top with 1,197 cases. The total number of acute diarrhoea cases was 3,901 during the corresponding period last year, a …
Two senior Ministers yesterday in Parliament called for the government to introduce the Cuban bio-control method to arrest the Dengue epidemic which had now become a global issue. Construction and Engineering Services Minister Rajitha Senaratne and Minister of Science and Technology Prof. Tissa Vitharana made this remark at an adjournment …
The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry last month launched a massive program to combat dengue in 68 divisional secretariat divisions with the patronage of MOH offices, PHIs and Civil Defence Committees. Under this program, in Colombo district alone 23,100 houses were inspected and 6,138 of them were found to be mosquito …
): Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that provision of potable water to save the masses from hepatitis and other water-borne diseases is the top priority of the government, and in this connection a number of projects are being executed expeditiously, utilising all available resources. He stated this …
Speakers at a sanitary latrine distribution ceremony today said the number of water-borne and all other common diseases would be reduced significantly as soon as full sanitation coverage is achieved throughout the country. They urged all stakeholders, educated and conscious sections of people, public representatives, politicians, civil society members, teachers …
As Sri Lanka painfully battles the dengue epidemic and swine flue, it is an irony that people in poor countries like Sri Lanka, which have contributed least to carbon emissions, should suffer disproportionately the resulting climate change. Higher temperature will change the distribution and increase the burden of various vector-borne, …
With California in its third year of drought, concern over access to clean water is no longer limited to the developing world. Here are some facts about global water scarcity, according to the World Health Organization. * Water scarcity affects one in three people on every continent and is getting …
Consumption of highly contaminated and toxic water of Manchhar Lake continue to spread gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, C and typhoid among fishermen and their families living in the lake
The recent health indicators for child and mental health mortality in Pakistan reveal that the country falls far below international standards, which require instant and careful consideration for effective long term planning, says a report by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC). Around 0.4 …
Health authorities battled to contain the ever increasing dengue epidemic with an island wide surveillance and clearing programme yesterday while the number of dengue related deaths rose to 134 and the number of cases touched the 9,300 mark, health ministry source said. A combined programme assisted by Ministries of Healthcare …
