Bhoongas to the rescue of patchy rehab plans
At Ludia village, some two km away from Khavda town, Mr Viren Joshi of Gandhi Ashram, Ahmedabad, is trying to get the local population build bhoongas, the Kutchi solution to quake-proof architecture.
At Ludia village, some two km away from Khavda town, Mr Viren Joshi of Gandhi Ashram, Ahmedabad, is trying to get the local population build bhoongas, the Kutchi solution to quake-proof architecture.
A rapid test for detecting HIV has been developed by Cadila Pharmaceuticals, an Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical company, in collaboration with the University of Delhi, South Campus, and the Department
There's good news for millions afflicted by diabetes in the country. The Ahmedabad-based pharma major, Cadila Pharmaceuticals has launched highly purified insulin at affordable prices in
Heavy rains continued for the third successive day in some parts of Gujarat. The Ahmedabad received around 91 mm rain in the past 24 hours. The city has received 214 mm of rain this month and the
The Gujarat Pollution Control Board's figure's show all is well with Ahmedabad's air. No one in the city believes it as they have no reason to do so. No, the board is not fudging the figures, it has
Concerned over the adverse effects of paracetamol, a drug widely used to bring down temperature and relieve pain, a consumer forum based at Ahmedabad has called on the Drug Controller of India to
The Madhya Pradesh Government has signed an agreement with the Space Application Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad, a unit of the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO), to prepare a development plan for the
AGRIFARE 2000, an international exhibition-conference-investor's meet on agro and food processing industry is being organised in Ahmedabad from October 12-15,
Fifty-nine cases of gastro-enteritis were reported from different parts of the city taking the total number of gastroenteritis cases to 1,227 in the month of April, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation's
Delhi has one of the poorest records of compliance in treatment and management of hospital waste, a shade better to Calcutta and Ahmedabad, a report card on seven cities by the environmental group
In 1999, the Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, conducted about 1,750 abortions, perhaps the maximum number of abortions conducted anywhere in the state, in a year.An alarming 30 percent of those coming for
The donkeys are brought to the care centre set up by Prakriti - an NGO - in Dani Limda here. Their hospital is a small fenced enclosure on the cattle pound of the Ahmedabad Municipal
The Ahmedabad-based Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd (IPL) will shortly launch the country's first indigenously developed cardiac vaccine, Steptokinse. The vaccine is at present under clinical trial by
It would take more than a month's time and tonnes of money to make Ahmedabad's buildings damaged in Friday's earthquake habitable, says a team of Vadodara's structural engineers who have just
Cadila Pharmaceuticals, the Ahmedabad-based pharma major, has achieved a significant milestone by commercially manufacturing and marketing Leprovac, the world's first leprosy vaccine(immunomodulator)
Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd, the Rs 2,500-crore Ahmedabad-based company, has released a new drug for the treatment of leprosy called Leprovac. It will cost Rs 50 for four
Heralding a new era of medical care for those people geogaphically isolated, the advanced "Online telemedicne system" was launched at Ahmedabad in the city on Thursday. Moreover , Event Recorder , a
Gujarat High Court has taken suo moto cognizance of the gas leak that caused panic in Ahmedabad city on Monday night and issued notices to the state government, Gujarat Pollution Control Board,
In an effort to draw attention to children affected by polio, nearly 1,200 artists from all over the country gathered together at Ahmedabad to paint a 2,200 metre-long canvas on the
Some 370 cases of vivex and falciparum malaria have been reported from 10 villages in Vagra taluka of Bharuch in Ahmedabad during the lat fortnight. However, no casualty has been reported so far. The