Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in the matter of Yudhveer Singh Chauhan Vs Uttarakhand Forest Department & Others dated 09/05/2025. The matter related to a cold storage project initiated at Mandi Samiti, Vikasnagar, Uttarakhand without obtaining necessary permissions, including prior approval for felling trees. In context of …
Patients who return to their home countries after undergoing medical procedures in India carry antibiotic-resistant strains with them. Hyderabad: The indiscriminate use of antibiotics to treat common ailments in India is the cause of development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Patients who return to their home countries after undergoing medical …
Nagpur: In the wake of the high-grade fever and cough affecting a very large number of children in the city, senior paediatrician Dr Satish Deopujari has given a call to every counterpart not to prescribe any cough syrup to any child at all. He claims that cough syrups have no …
Vitamin D supplements could spare more than three million people from colds or flu in the UK each year, researchers claim. The sunshine vitamin is vital for healthy bones, but also has a role in the immune system. The analysis, published in the British Medical Journal, argues food should be …
Surat: Two patients, who tested positive for swine flu infection, are at present under treatment at two private hospitals in the city. They were suffering from cold and cough for the last one week. A 28-year-old man, who is a resident of Palanpur Patia, was admitted to a hospital here …
Intense cold continued to trouble Delhiites as icy winds refused to subside and the minimum temperature reached the season’s lowest, settling at a chilling 1.9 degree Celsius. It is after five years that the minimum temperature dipped below 2 degrees in the city. “Earlier, it was in January 2008 that …
North India continued to remain in the grip of severe cold wave today, with 23 more persons succumbing to the chill in various parts of the region. Fifteen more persons died in Uttar Pradesh due to intense cold conditions, taking the toll in the state this winter to 155. At …
The cold wave in Uttar Pradesh snuffed out lives of seven more persons with the overall death toll due to the harsh weather touching 69 on Sunday. Two people died in Barabanki district and one each in Gonda, Deoria, Ballia, Banda, and Hamirpur. In UP, the maximum temperature was 11 …
The Madras High Court has quashed a notification issued by the Centre in February this year in so far as it related to banning of manufacture, sale and distribution of Phenylpropanolamine (PPA). The drug is an ingredient in various formulations used in the treatment of common cold, body pain and …
Trains, planes and cars halted by snow and ice. Gas and electricity supplies rationed. Sensitive crops ruined. Boats frozen into waterways. For weeks, images of the coldest weather for decades have filled the media across Europe, Asia and North America. But there is an alternative weather story. In much of …
Extreme cold, ice and snow in 20 provinces of southern China since January have damaged crops of rapeseed, vegetables and fruits, along with some 190,000 hectares (ha) of winter wheat. 150,000 ha of rice fields were destroyed by a cold spell in Vietnam. Intensification of seasonal rains in Ecuador caused …
the cold virus could become a friend for cancer patients. New research suggests that patients undergoing chemotherapy are more likely to survive for a longer period when treated with a cold virus. Fadlo Khuri of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston, usa, found that …
If you are suffering from a cold, do not blow your nose. Every time you do that, you prolong your suffering, say Jack Gwaltney and Birgit Winther of the University of Virgina in Charlottsville, USA, who studied computerised tomography (CT) scans of sinuses of patients suffering with a cold. They …
the common cold is rarely life threatening. But their collective toll of misery and absenteeism is nothing to sneeze at. Billions of people the world over come down with colds every year. It is estimated that children average six to eight colds a year; adults, two to four, depending upon …
nobel laureate Linus Pauling, who died at the age of 93, consistently extolled the benefits of vitamin c . He was said to stir 18 gramme of the vitamin into his daily orange juice. Last April, however, researchers at the University of Leicester, uk , reported that a supplement of …
