State airs grievances over share of Narmada Water
Madhya Pradesh has registered its opposition with Narmada Water Dispute Tribunal for neglecting interest of the State in benefits from Narmada river water share among partner States. Madhya Pradesh
Pioneer (New Delhi)
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Remembering 'Mosquito Man'
Sir Ronald Ross, the 'Malaria slayer' was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the disease. Exactly a century after the "Mosquito Man" received international recognition and accoladed
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Weak bone strikes
Paget's Disease of Bone (PDB) is a focal disorder in bone metabolism that enlarges affected bones and deforms them. The process can be painful as well. Though unknown, investigators have ascribed it
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DPCC sleeping over Plastic Act
The Act conjured up images of a plastic-free Capital. But that wasn't to be. After nearly a year or so of the Delhi Plastic Bag and No Biodegradable Act coming into being, standard set up authorities
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Dolphins eat out of villagers hands
A sharp decline in the population of endangered river dolphins or sihu has prompted the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to initiate moves to declare Kulsi river in Assam a wildlife
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Andhra Pradesh to launch World Bank poverty plan
With the rural poverty in Andhra Pradesh reaching a low of 11.05 per cent, lowest among all the states in the country, the state government has decided to make a last attempt to reduce it. For this
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UN warns of Asia-Pacific AIDS epidemic
Asia-Pacific may soon face an overwhelming AIDS epidemic unless governments in the region take immediate action, according a UN report. The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
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HIV vaccine set for human trials
Dozens of medical centres across the United States are gearing up to begin human studies of a new vaccine to fight the Human Immuno Deficiency Virus, or HIV, researchers have announced. "Ideally, we
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Children play with fire in match factory
Children still work hard and for long hours earning minimal wages in dingy factories to provide for the family meal. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1968, is just for archive
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We still kill our kids
A new study by three Untied Nation agencies shows that nearly 5,500 children die each day around the world from disease caused by polluted air, water and food. Environmental contamination causes a
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Jharkhand AIDS graph zooms
After detection of the first AIDS case 16 years back in Chennai in 1986, the situation in the country has become alarming in no time and in a state like Jharkhand (a tribal-dominated region where sex