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 …
A health camp conducted in Sama, 60 km north of Bageshwar in Uttaranchal in November, revealed that anaemia, chronic infections, gout, tuberculosis and rheumatoid arthritis are the common ailments there. And, 80 per cent of the 250 people who had come for the check up, suffered from these. Most women, …
Assam is the highest tea producer state in the country. There is scarcity of reliable information on health and nutritional status among tea garden population of Assam to enable initiating public health response to their health needs.
while all Indian states are complying with the Centre's notification on mandatory iodised salt from May 17, Maharashtra is still open to non-iodised salt following the Bombay High Court's interim stay on the notification. On May 16, the court had stayed the November 17, 2005, notification of the Union ministry …
Delhi kids better lay off junk food and colas. A recent study by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) reveals startling details about school students' health. It has found 23.1 per cent boys to be overweight, while 8.3 per cent fall into the obese category. The corresponding figures …
whether it is a vegetable or a fruit may never be established conclusively. But the luscious red of the tomato has qualities hitherto unknown: it helps prevent cancers. Tomatoes get their red colour from lycopene, a natural pigment. Lycopene is also found in pink grapefruit, watermelon and guava, among other …
THE fossil record of Neanderthals abruptly ends about 30,000 years ago. Why Neanderthals suddenly went extinct is a topic of much debate even today. Some experts suggest that they may have lost a "fight" with the more tech nologically- advanced Homo sapiens sapiens, while others say interbreeding with them diluted …
trace elements, that form a part of human nutrition, are not well understood. These substances, occurring in small amounts (especially in the soil) are usually needed in extremely small measures for the proper growth of plant and animal life. However, they can become toxic even in relatively low dosages. Also, …
studies show that calcium intake does not help prevent bone loss in lactating women. At present, doctors prescribe calcium doses for such women to prevent loss of bone density. Heidi J Kalkwarf and his colleagues at the Children Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, usa , have found that calcium intake of …
ABOUT 27 per cent of the residents of Delhi, in the age group 35-64, are reportedly suffering from hypertension, or high blood pressure (BP). This could be an underestimate as, according to a study conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AHMS), New Delhi, only 51.9 per cent …
There is bad news for the UNICEF's universal salt iodisation programme. Field investigations by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) contradicts the UN body's contention that by next year iodine deficiency disorders among Indian children will become preventable. The AIIMS study of the endemic state of Uttar Pradesh …
MORE THAN one-third of China's population suffers from iodine deficiency and two provinces, Xinjiang and Jiangxi, are the worst hit. Five million Chinese are said to be mentally retarded and children with less than normal IQ are reported to number 8-18 million and increasing by one million every year. Iodine …
In India Tulika Verma is on a mission to ban junk food from Delhi’s schools – where over one in six schoolchildren are overweight. Western-style diets and processed food are becoming ever more popular in India’s cities, while traditional, healthy, sustainable foods are being forgotten. India’s on the edge of …
