First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
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H.P. gears up to check SARS
The Himachal Pradesh Government has put the Health Department on an alert over the possible outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome(SARS) and directed the Chief Medical Officer to examine
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Shame: Scavenging still exists in Capital
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has rapped the Delhi Government and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for their failure to rehabilitate scavengers and their dependents. "According to Annual
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Huge response to pulse polio drive
About five lakh children below the age of five were administered polio drops on Sunday, said Dr S K Kapoor, Prof and Medical Officer of Centre for Community Medicine at Ballabgarh. Centre for
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UP epicentre of world's polio, says WHO chief
The countdown for eradication of polio from the globe by 2005 is on schedule, says Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO). However, there is one stumbling
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Sale of cut fruits banned
In view of the onset of summer and the fear of epidemic diseases, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Vineet Kumar Garg, by invoking Section 2 of Epidemic Diseases Act, 1887, has prohibited the sale of
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Killer bug spreads as experts hunt clues
A deadly pneumonia-like virus, has claimed more victims in a growing number of countries, as experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) race to trace the origins of the highly infectious
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SARS claims 8th victim in Canada
Mysterious respiratory virus SARS claimed its eighth victim in the province of Ontario and a ninth death is under investigation, Canadian health officials said and warned that more infections were
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Zombies in cyber State
Welcome to Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh, one of the worst affected districts in India by the excess fluoride in groundwater. The fluoride-contaminated water has left more than a thousand people
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Polio drive hits bump in Bengal
Uttar Pradesh will not be the only focus of the countrywide pulse polio programme during tomorrow's round of immunisation. Even West Bengal will be needing special attention. According to figures,