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Monday, November 02, 2009 |
Reinforce smokefree laws to reduce pneumonia deaths in childrenW o r l d Pneumonia D a y November Pneumonia kills more children than any other disease Every seconds it claims another child Two million twenty lakhs children less than years die of pneumonia every year This is when diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia ... Read more |
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 |
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st World Pneumonia Day November Pneumonia claims two million children under five each year yet no new drug vaccine or special diagnostic test is needed to save their lives The answers are at hand and effective treatment is both inexpensive and widely available So why are children dying This question is the driving force behin ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 |
DiabetesLeadership Forum seeks solutions to reduce longterm public healthcare costsA recent survey showed that the agestandardized rate of diabetes among adults living in urban areas is up to in China said Prof Yang Wenying chairman of Chinese Diabetes Society That means approximately million people in China have d ... Read more |
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Monday, October 19, 2009 |
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There is a growing civil society movement against the new uranium mining and nuclear power plants in India The National Alliance of Antinuclear Movements NAAM is mobilizing citizens to protest against the reported decision of the government of India to take a quantum leap in installed capacity for nuclear power generation from the current leve ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
SRINAGAR Mental health is crucial to ones general wellbeing Mr Javaid Ahmad Dar Minister of State for Health and Medical Education JK Government opened the mental health camp today at the Municipal Park Jawahar Nagar Srinagar This mental health camp has been organized by Médecins Sans Frontières MSF also known ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 |
Microbicides advocacy in India has come a long way over the past decade and a new publication the MSI Microbicide Monitor is the latest fruit of this progress Providing a weekly snapshot of major microbicidesrelated news from around the world the Monitor includes news highlights from countries where clinical trials are taking place links to m ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
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A growing outrage is palpable from the civil society against the abuse of medias credibility to arrest Chhatradhar Mahto the leader of Lalgarh movement in West Bengal IndiaThe West Bengal police and authorities disguised as a fake media representative and with the assistance of a local media personnel managed to reach Chhatradhar Mahto Ma ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 |
India needs the technologies for meeting all the three important needs of an individual as well as for the country ie prevention of unwanted pregnancies prevention of nonHIV sexually transmitted infections STIs as well as HIV said the Dr Badri N Saxena Presidentelect of Microbicides Soci ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 20, 2009 |
Tuberculosis TB is among the biggest killers of people living with HIV PLHIV even in the era of increased access to antiretroviral therapy ART TB incidence and recurrence rates even if reduced by ART remain high in PLHIV The risk of developing active TB disease in PLHIV with latent infection increases up to annually in contrast to a ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |
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The pressure is mounting with Stamp Out Poverty taking a lead with organizations from around the world in advocating for a Currency Transaction Levy CTL for Health which when applied to the four major currencies US dollar Yen Euro and British pound could potentially raise up to USD billion a year This will raise sufficient finances to me ... Read more |
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Sunday, September 13, 2009 |
By using photographs of people living with HIV and their personal testimonies since Positive Liveswwwpositivelivesorg has been dedicatedly fighting HIVrelated stigma and prejudice in communities around the world We wanted to humanize the disease and so that people will see individuals living with HIV said Kevin Ryan a trus ... Read more |
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 |
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Good health is one of our basic needs said Indias Prime Minister Dr Mammohan Singh in his speechon the last Independence Day August But this basic health need is denied to the millions of those disadvantaged in India India is fifth from the bottom in the world if we look at the government expenditure on health said Dr Amit Seng ... Read more |
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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Despite growing global pressure for the release of prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar Burma she was sentenced to another months house arrest by a court in RangoonIt is another big blow to democracy struggles in Burma said Dr Sandeep Pandey Magsaysay Awardee and leader of National Alliance of Peoples Movements N ... Read more |
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Friday, August 07, 2009 |
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The Indian government should take major steps to overhaul a policing system that facilitates and even encourages human rights violations Human Rights Watch said in a report released in Lucknow on August at UP Press Club For decades successive governments have failed to deliver on promises to hold the police accountable for abuses and to b ... Read more |
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
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To raise public consciousness about issues related to Indo US Nuclear Deal including the radioactive nuclear energy and lifethreatening hazards a demonstration was held in city centre of Lucknow by citizens opposing both nuclear energy and nuclear weaponsThis demonstration is to strengthen efforts towards protecting Indias sovereignty wh ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
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The proposed introduction of the Land Acquisition Amendment and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bills by United Progressive Alliance UPA on the last day of the Budget Session despite of the objections by struggling peoples movements and one of the UPA key allies Trinamool Congress smacks of a conspiracy and only reflects the government succumbi ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
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World Breastfeeding Week August Emergencies can happen anywhere in the world Infants and young children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition illness and death in these situations Emergencies whether caused by conflict or natural disasters are extraordinary events that can jeopardize the health and survival of large populations ... Read more |
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Friday, July 10, 2009 |
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Rohini Singh is still waiting for justice to be done after being brutally physically abused by the police constable Subhas Mishra who entered and ransacked her home and also misbehaved with her two minor daughters all because she was asking for protection against the harassment and domestic violence she was being subjected to by her husband ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 |
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GENEVA The International Diabetes Federation IDF the International Union Against Cancer UICC and the World Heart Federation WHF called today on the UNs Economic and Social Council ECOSOC to take immediate action to avert the fastest growi ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
The World Health Organization WHO declared on June that swine flu or influenza caused by HN virus is a pandemicOn the basis of available evidence and these expert assessments of the evidence the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met I have therefore decided to raise the level of influenza pandemic aler ... Read more |
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Saturday, May 30, 2009 |
There was a growing consensus to strictly enforce smokefree policies at the public symposium organized by the department of Surgery Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University to mark the World No Tobacco Day Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Saroj Chooramani Gopal and Justice Shabibul Hasnain were the chief guests and Superintendent of Police SP ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
A ShortMessageService SMS hotline was launched in New Delhi India to provide roundtheclock free tuberculosis TB support service to TB patients This SMS helpline is being managed by exTB patients Earlier on World Health Day April a unique partnership was forged in a community of Indias capital to improve TB responses URL ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 |
Citizen News Service CNSThe Department of Surgery University of Malaya Medical Centre UMMC in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia has invited noted Surgeon Professor Dr Rama Kant Head of Surgery Department at Chhattrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medic ... Read more |
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Friday, May 15, 2009 |
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Civil society has lodged a written complaint against the painting of a part of the years old Vidhan Sabha building state council house by the Estate Department of the Mayawatiled government in Uttar Pradesh UP state in IndiaMagsaysay Awardee Dr Sandeep Pandey was part of the delegation to the UP state Governor TV Rajeshwar Dr P ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 |
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Lucknow INDIA The case of Baby Bitta the youngest acid attack victim came up for hearing at the Child Welfare Committee CWC Lucknow Uttar Pradesh on May at the Government Childrens Home Infants at Prag Narain Road The case was presented in the childrens court by Saaksham Foundation an NGO working to address violations of ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 |
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Two years of Dr Binayak Sens imprisonment Jonathan Mann awardee Dr Binayak Sen who is a wellknown paediatrician and human rights defender will complete two years on May in a Raipur prison on false charges of abetting Maoist activity in Chhattisgarh sedition and waging war against the State This committed advocate of civil li ... Read more |
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Monday, May 11, 2009 |
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Lucknow INDIA Citizens expressed their deep concern about the blatant misuse of print and electronic media by parties and candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections in and about the media allowing itself to be abused This constitutes a gross breach of trust with the readerviewer who expects unbiased and fair news coverage during electi ... Read more |
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Monday, May 11, 2009 |
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BRUSSELS Belgium May The International Diabetes Federation IDF today announced that its President Professor Martin Silink has called on governments worldwide to recognize the severe impact of diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases and take immediate action to ameliorate the threatSpeaking today at the ECOSOC Annual Minist ... Read more |
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 |
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El Salvador Benin and other low and middleincome countries have a special reason to celebrate World Asthma Day on Tuesday May this year A purchasing mechanism run by the Parisbased International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease The Union is making it possible for these countries to obtain qualityassured essential asthma medic ... Read more |
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Sunday, May 03, 2009 |
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More than million people around the world have asthma and the disease imposes a heavy burden on individuals families and societiesThe Global Burden of Asthma Report indicates that asthma control often falls short and there are many barriers to asthma control around the world Proper longterm management of asthma will permit most patie ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
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Activists expressed their deep anguish and concern on unabated mass killings in Sri Lanka which is as they underlined no short of a humanitarian disaster in northern Sri LankaWe also protest the covert provision of economic and military aid to Sri Lanka by Indian government which has certainly deeply aggravated the situation in Sri Lank ... Read more |
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Monday, April 27, 2009 |
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Ways to effectively control vivax malaria are at the centre of this years World Malaria Day activities in the World Health Organization WHO SouthEast Asia and the Western Pacific RegionsRepresentatives from the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea India Indonesia Republic of Korea and Sri Lanka met in New Delhi on April to ... Read more |
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Friday, April 24, 2009 |
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In the least developed countries one third of death and disease is a direct result of environmental causes Proper environmental management is the key to avoiding the quarter of all preventable illnesses which are directly caused by environmental factors said Prabha Chaturvedi President Exnora Lucknow in an interface with students of Navyug Pu ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
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Not only modern lifestyles are causing unbrindled exploitation of natural resources upsetting the ecosystem and upping the global warming but also the national policies in India related to environment are not in tune with International mandate to save the planet Earth Corporatisation of natural resources is bad for people and environment ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
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Earlier this month the Group of Twenty G leaders had announced a USD trillion boosterdose into the world economy by the end of through multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund IMF Health advocates believe that critical reforms are needed for IMF policies to prevent disastrous fallouts like rising tuberculosis ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
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Lucknow INDIA Politics after all is the allocation of resources Also politics is who gets to decide on how this resource allocation should be done said Arundhati Dhuru the firebrand veteran Narmada Bachao Andolan frontline activist and adviser to Right to Food Commissioner to Supreme CourtShe was addressing a public meeting in the lead ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 18, 2009 |
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Lucknow In one of the most gruesome violations of child rights a four month old baby girl has become the youngest victim of a brutal acid attack which has not only scarred her physically but will now destroy her emotional and psychological well being as well The innocent child will be forced to live with deformities caused to her by a brutal at ... Read more |
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Friday, April 17, 2009 |
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The long pending pictorial or graphic health warnings on all tobacco products in India shall finally be impelmented from May This is in line with the Cigarette and other Tobacco Products Act and the global tobacco treaty which India has ratified World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco ControlEarlier this week the ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
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They may not be as suave as Nafisa Ali all set to wow Lucknow on a Samajawadi Party SP ticket to Lok Sabha or the messiah of the dalits as the Bahujan Samajwadi Party BSP Supremo Bahen Mayawati but this elections the mahila brigade in city of Nawabs are gearing up to be heard and howDown trodden and oppressed for decades now a good number ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
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Bahadur Lal Sonkar years who was contesting the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from Jaunpur parliamentary constituency of India was found dead hanging from a tree on the eve of Ambedkar Jayanti He was contesting elections from Indian Justice Party IJPIt is very unfortunate that on the eve of Ambedkar Jayanti such gory incident has t ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 |
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It was indeed refreshing to hear the views of Dr Asghar Ali Engineer a Right Livelihood award recipient on the politics of terrorism He rightly believes that terrorism is not born of any religion but is the outcome of political situationsIn India the demolition of the Babri Masjid triggered the spate of terrorist activities in the countr ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 11, 2009 |
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By KashifulHuda CNSThis month in the year the HinduMuslim violence in Jamshedpur took the lives of people The number of dead could have easily been but as it turned out my family and I survived the mayhem to write about it thirty years later This unfortunate event occurred when I was at the tender age of five however t ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 11, 2009 |
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In times when manifestos of election candidates are announced by the highest seats of political ivory towers a people centric initiative is taking shape in Lucknow A series of public meetings led to the nomination of peoples candidate from prestigious Lok Sabha constituency of Lucknow the capital of Uttar Pradesh in India Indian Police Servi ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
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The Group of Ministers GoM on tobacco warnings is meeting on April and further dilution or delay to pictorial health warnings on tobacco products is expected This is a great concern before the nation when the implementation on pictorial warnings is long due now and the deadline is very close May This meeting is scheduled at ... Read more |
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 |
World Health Day April On this years World Health Day let us focus on addressing issues that can improve health status of women A wide array of socioeconomic cultural and genderbased inequalities continue to aggravate risk for womenThe latest effort in this direction was a symposium on nutrition in women held in New Delhi Its main ... Read more |
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Saturday, April 04, 2009 |
Earlier this week the Group of Twenty leaders announced a USD trillion boosterdose into the world economy by the end of through multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund IMF However in July analysts from Cambridge and Yale Universities had reported that tuberculosis TB in countries with IMF loans rose shar ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
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There is a growing public movement globally to put pressure on the Group of Twenty G Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors that will meet in London UK on April to put a currency transaction levy of to raise dedicated resources for funding health programmes This currency transaction levy of can potentially genera ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
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The countries that report high burden of tuberculosis TB particularly drugresistant strains of TB are the ones not moving fast enough to provide life saving treatment According to the International medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières MSF or doctors without borders less than one percent of those with multidrug resi ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 |
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Despite of African governments declaring tuberculosis TB as an emergency Africa as a region faces the largest funding gap of USD billion to fully implement the Global Plan to Stop TB by This fact came in spotlight when the TB funding in Africa required to meet the TBrelated targets of millennium development goals MDG by was a ... Read more |
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Monday, March 23, 2009 |
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We simply must stop TB This succinct but compelling message implies a shared responsibility for unified action at all levels by healthcare providers national and international partners and communities to control and eliminate TB said Dr Samlee Plianbangchang World Health Organization WHOs Regional Director for SouthEast AsiaThe st ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 22, 2009 |
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Involving the TB patients in TB control programmes particularly those who have successfully completed the TB treatment might help says Professor Dr Nazmi Zengin from Toplum Sagligi Arastirma ve Gelistirme Merkezi Centre for Research and Promotion of Health in Konya Turkey wwwtoplumsagligiorg Dr Nazmi is representing a civil society o ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 22, 2009 |
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In these times of global meltdown it is all the more critical to focus on how can TB care and control be still seen as a smart investment to governments private sector and other stakeholdersThere is enough evidence to substantiate that TB care and control is a smart investment In December a World Bank report had revealed that high bu ... Read more |
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Saturday, March 14, 2009 |
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The smokefree policies in India were enforced since October and different states are at varying levels of its implementation yet the tobacco cessation services are still limited to very few clinics in IndiaA lead article published in The Economist March says tobacco is more addictive than virtually all of them narcotic ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 08, 2009 |
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Youth from countries that met at the nd Global Youth Meet GYM in the lead up to the th World Conference on Tobacco Or Health WCTOH in Mumbai India expressed their common ire against crossborder tobacco advertising in filmsSatellite televisions cinema theatres CDs DVDs are some of the ways movies made in any part of the world an ... Read more |
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Sunday, March 08, 2009 |
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More than of the tobacco use begins before the age of years The tobacco industry loses more than million of its best customers every year as they die of causes attributed to tobacco use Documents recovered from the tobacco industry reveal that the tobacco advertising promotion and sponsorship campaigns are targetted to encourage young ... Read more |
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Friday, February 27, 2009 |
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The study of causes distribution spread and control of diseases in populations epidemiology is a fundamental science and an integral part of public health Epidemiology has helped address old public health challenges and continues to be a tool to investigate new challenges by providing evidence required for sound public health actionEffort ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 21, 2009 |
AntiDalit and Antipoor action by a prodalit GovernmentOn February at the behest of Bahujan Samaj Partys Satish Chandra Mishra the local administration came into swing to brutally demolish the slums in Nadwa daliganj Lucknow poor people were rendered homeless despite of central government of Indias and UP state governments ... Read more |
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
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Unless the tuberculosis TB advocates reach out to decision makers to impress upon them the urgency of strengthening TB care and control programmes the global economic meltdown is likely to threaten to reverse the gains made in TB care over past decadesI believe we should not lower our sights one bit Rather we should broadcast far and wid ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 |
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Despite of Indian governments assurance that India will not be affected by the global economic recession about million people are estimated to lose their jobs in India by end of Not only that more people than ever in the past decade will be jobless but even the governments are resorting to extreme costcutting measures to tide through ... Read more |
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 |
In the clamour for asking the Pakistani government to take decisive action against the terrorist organizations in that country and shut down their camps we forget one thing The civilian government in Pakistan is probably simply not in a position to do what we except from it It is a well known fact that military and ISI in Pakistan are quite indep ... Read more |
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 |
Community radio is the real voice of the people it is a communication service that caters to the interests and needs of a certain area its culture craft cuisine and above all social and development issues said Mridul Srivastava the station director of Lalit LokvaniLalit Lokvani is a village community radio planned to be operationa ... Read more |
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 |
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To confront the present war posturing between India and Pakistan the citizens of both countries are launching a joint signature petition campaign on January to voice their mandate against terrorism war posturing and to promote mutual cooperation and peace This signature petition campaign shall conclude on February after which the ... Read more |
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Friday, December 19, 2008 |
A few years back at an interactive session on economy in Missouri United States President George W Bush argued that prosperity in countries like India is good but it triggers increased demand for better nutrition which in turn leads to higher food prices and food crises However it is not true though India is facing the problem of food crisi ... Read more |
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Sunday, December 14, 2008 |
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Lenin Kumar Roy the editor of Nishan a Left oriented quarterly magazine published from Bhuvaneshwar Orissa state in India was arrested on December around pm and sent to jail on charges of writing provocative literature which as per the police version and the official report would disturb communal peace and harmonyThe police d ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
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Patients with type diabetes may be at increased risk of contracting tuberculosis TB because they generally have a compromised immune system which results in lifethreatening lung infections that are more difficult to treatResearch at the University of Texas School of Public Health Brownsville shows that type diabetes especially when it ... Read more |
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 |
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Uttar Pradesh is one of the most important states of the country in terms of agricultural production More than of its population is rural based and depends on agriculture for its livelihood Small and marginal farmers having less than acres of land are in a majority in the stateUttar Pradesh is divided into nine agro climatic zones fro ... Read more |
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Friday, November 28, 2008 |
Diabetes in PregnancyAwareness and Prevention DIPAP a success story of World Diabetes Foundation WDFPrevalence of diabetes is increasing globally and this includes pregnant women with gestational diabetes mellitus GDMGDM is defined as a transient abnormality of carbohydrate glucose intolerance of variable intensity a condition ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 27, 2008 |
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Civil society in India has strongly condemned the recent decision of the Group of Ministers GOM in India to defer the implementation of pictorial health warnings on tobacco product packages which was to come in to effect from November The pictorial warnings have been deferred again till at least end of May This decision of GO ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
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Pictorial warnings on tobacco products most likely postponed th timeRight after the strong and effective guidelines to stop tobacco industry interference in health policies were adopted by the government representatives of countries including India the pictorial warnings on all tobacco products that were supposed to become mandatory from ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 22, 2008 |
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GLOBAL TOBACCO TREATY MEETING ADOPTS STRONG GUIDELINES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST INDUSTRY ABUSEDURBAN Today on November countries agreed on strong new guidelines to block tobacco industry interference in global health policies and the implementation of the global tobacco treatySince it took effect in implementation of the ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 22, 2008 |
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Government delegation from Nepal is among those countries delegations currently meeting in Durban South Africa to negotiate guidelines for provisions of the global tobacco treaty November The negotiations centre on the implementation of Article which protects the treaty and related public health policies from tobacco in ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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More than of the diagnosed TB patients are successfully completing treatment in Nepal today Nepals antiTB programme has received appreciation in the southeast Asian region which is the result of ongoing government commitment community support forging wide range of partnerships and the use of innovative ways of ensuring access to Directly ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 |
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India agrees that Tobacco industry puts pressure to relax health policies The Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revealed before the Central Information Commission that tobacco industry is putting pressure to relax the tobacco control policies source The Hindu November The tobacco industry interference has ... Read more |
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Monday, November 17, 2008 |
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Countries meet to limit big tobaccos influenceIndustry Interference seen as Obstacle to Health Treatys Enforcement DURBAN Representatives of ratifying countries currently meeting in Durban South Africa will negotiate guidelines for a provision in the global tobacco treaty that will determine whether millions of people ... Read more |
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
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A national multistakeholder partnership for TB care and control is shaping up in India Last week on November representatives from a range of TB stakeholders participated in a daylong meeting at LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases in New Delhi The meeting was facilitated by the International Union Against Tuberculosis ... Read more |
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 |
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Diabetes has a unique impact on the lives of adolescents and requires constant monitoring of blood sugar levels medication and balancing the effects of food and activity With careful management by diabetologists nutritionists and psychologists and with support from parents these young people can lead full and healthy lives They can partic ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
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I do not remember witnessing this kind of global panic in my lifetime Probably the twin towers crash generated a reaction of similar magnitude as the recent financial meltdown and recessionAmong others a lot of well off people are going to be directly affected by the current financial crisis hence these high decibel alarm bells Significant ... Read more |
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 |
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Who will marry my daughter who has diabetes asks Ram Anuj a native of Ganga Jamuni village Bahraich district in India Ram Anujs years old daughter Munni name changed has type diabetes and needs daily insulin injections The family members stopped sending Munni to school when other children made fun of Munni when she took her i ... Read more |
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Monday, October 27, 2008 |
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Deepawali is the festival of lights which is celebrated all over India It marks the advent of the winter season and signifies peace and prosperity and the victory of truth over evil This years Diwali it falls on th October is a bleak one indeed As I peer hard through the darkness of hatred and violence I struggle to find a single ra ... Read more |
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Friday, October 24, 2008 |
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Diabetes is a deadly disease and each year almost million people die from diabetesrelated causes Children particularly in countries where there is limited access to diabetes care and supplies die young according to International Diabetes Federation IDF which is an umbrella organization of over member associations in more than c ... Read more |
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Friday, October 17, 2008 |
A media report labeled diabetes as a lifestyle disease Rightly so but it doesnt imply that poor and underserved communities are not at risk of diabetes In fact the World Diabetes Day WDD was created by the International Diabetes Federation IDF and the World Health Organization in to draw attention of the world community towards escal ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
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The Food and Agriculture Organization FAO of United Nations has recently issued a report which reveals that currently there are million crore people in the world who have fallen victim to famine and if the current crisis of price rise persists this count may reach the total of million crore India too is facing the ... Read more |
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Monday, October 13, 2008 |
Special in lead up to World Food Day October World food scarcity and the challenges of climate change and bio energy Shobha Shukla Rarely has the World Food Day assumed greater meaning than in present times as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry in the world according to the Food And Agriculture Orga ... Read more |
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 |
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The wrath of gods seems to be descending on the religious Indian masses with perilious frequency as stampedes at pilgrimages kill more people in alone and in the last ten years than even bomb blastsThe latest in this series was the early morning stampede this month on the first day of Navratra the nine days religious festivity ... Read more |
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Sunday, October 05, 2008 |
The first patient was successfully treated by the stateoftheart technology in radiotherapy linear accelerator which began functioning last week at RR Cancer Institute and Research Centre Sri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences SRMSIMS Bareilly in IndiaA linear accelerator LINAC is the device most commonly used for extern ... Read more |
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Saturday, October 04, 2008 |
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India is reeking under increasing communal polarisation and urgent steps to check it are warranted Between August and October more than villages in districts of Orissa state were affected by communal violence houses were burnt and people were killed women were gangraped churches and educational institutions ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
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It is a pity that Indias robust smokefree policies have been challenged by those with vested interests neglecting the immense and undisputed proven public health benefits of implementing such policies for people atlarge India is to ban smoking in public places nationwide from October However the ITC Limited and the Indian Hotel Asso ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 |
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There is a growing consensus to raise awareness about diabetes in the days leading up to World Diabetes Day on November The International Diabetes Federation announced that the theme for this years campaign is Diabetes in Children and AdolescentsDiabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases to affect children It can strik ... Read more |
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