Prostitutes in Delhi will get health cards to check AIDS
The Delhi government will issue health cards to all commercial sex workers of the designated areas in the city wich would entitle them to medical facilities and check the spread of
The Delhi government will issue health cards to all commercial sex workers of the designated areas in the city wich would entitle them to medical facilities and check the spread of
Workers yesterday began cleaning up tonnes of fuel oil swept on to the shoreline of the Turkish city of Istanbul after the wreckage last week of a Russian oil tanker. The Anatolian news agency said a
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Kanpur a cancer-prone city since thousands of people here are addicted to tobacco, gutkha and
Researchers in Australia have found that their native plants emit chemical compounds that can interact with man-made air pollutants and exacerbate smog formation over cities.The research into
Wide areas of Melbourne and country Victoria were under water last night after a series of summer deluges that caused chaos across the state. Flash flooding blocked dozens of city and country roads,
Forst cell officials of the Corps of Detectives seized over 2,000 star tortoises, an endangered species, from two houses in the city on
Environmentalists have stopped the construction of a shopping centre near the Polish city of Krakow, because of worries about its impact on rare frogs living in a nearby pond, its builder said on
The Punjab (Pakistan) Environment Protection Department (EPD) has directed the city hospitals to manage their waste properly to help check the incidents of hospital-acquired diseases (HAD) among the
The Urban Development Ministry has drawn up an ambitious Rs 508-crore project to revive the former glory of the historic city of Varanasi as part of an overall plan to "rejuvenate
About 40 percent deaths in Pakistan are caused by water borne diseases, the highest in the region. Despite the evidently ample supply hardly any city in Pakistan receives water deemed acceptable by
Venice's problems with flooding have been at their worst in the last three weeks. But city authorities are unlikely to end the fruitless debate on the issue in an election year : a
Community alarm about the impact of logging on water catchments has prompted the City of Geelong (Australia) to call for a moratorium on clearfelling in the Otway Ranges. Two years of water
The only legal abattoir in the city at Idgah has come under fire with animal activists protesting against the methods of slaught used in the abattoir and the ensuing contamination of water and air.
A report prepared at the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health again confirms that groundwater in many parts of the city is contaminated with arsenic. "The study proves that
Mosquito menance has increased alarmingly in Dhaka as the Dhaka City Corporation's drive against mosquito has come to a standstill for quite a long
More than 1,000 electroplating units which are an integral part of Ludhiana's cycle and auto parts industry have been declared as the most polluting units in the city by the Pollution Control
At least 118 people were killed and another 104 are missing after a tropical storm battered Wenzhou city in Zhejiang province of China on Saturday, Xinhua reported. Xinhua said last night as many as
The worst tornado ever recorded in the state of Utah ripped across central Salt Lake City on Wednesday, leaving at least one person dead and 49
The latest French census, released, put the country's population at just over 60 million, with an increasing number of people leaving Paris to settle in cities along the coast and in southern
The Delhi High Court today expressed dissatisfaction at the poor sanitary conditions in Delhi and failure of the civic authorities to improve garbage disposal management in the city. The Supreme