The Institute of Medicine (IOM) will present the Gustav O. Lienhard award for the advancement of personal health services to H. Jack Geiger, emeritus professor at the City University of New York
After Adilabad district in Hyderabad, where the administration failed to check the spread of gastroenteritis, it is now the turn of the twin cities to suffer the frightening proportions and
The city administration is issuing a code of practice to control the generation of construction waste in Bangkok, said a senior official Pichai Chaipotepanich, deputy director of the Office of
Nearly half of the Surat city and Broach towns in south Gujarat have ben inundated by the rising flood waters in the Tapti and Narmada rivers following heavy rainfall in their catchment areas in
Despite assurances given by the authorites about all preventive measures being taken, malignant malaria has struck the city again for the second consecutive year. Figures compiled by the Indian
The listening capacity of the people living in Dhaka city is being impaired due to noise pollution caused by uncontrollable use of hydraulic horns in the vehicles, mikes and clamour from construction
Britain's cities are caught up in a spiral of congestion as increased traffic deters people from walking : a
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday expressed concern over the Central and Delhi Government's failure to establish how large quantitites of adulterated oil suddenly came to the city market causing
On the threshold of becoming an information technology giant in the country, the city is also sitting on the powder-keg of noise pollution with almost all the makor traffic corridors and the
The total ban on mustard oil announced on Wednesday is expected to deliver a severe blow to the pickle trade in the city. Worried pickle manufacturers complaining of sale slumps, say production of
The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to the city goverhment on a public interest petition seeking to ban the human hair waste trade in Jwalapuri area in west Delhi
The builder of the City Link tollway has been ordered to clean up its act, after the Environment Protection Authority of Australia found it had dumped 24,000 cubic metres of
The Uttar Pradesh government will "shortly" ban the use of polythene bags as these are "set to choke sewer lines in our cities and create a serious
Environment pollution from industrial, vehicular and domestic sources that has assumed serious proportions in the country's most of the major cities is likely to have a critical impact on the
The ambitious urban forestry programme mooted by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporaiton and aimed at developing green patches on certian portions of the city, exactly a year ago has failed miserably
Hanam, a city east of Seoul, will host a huge international environmental exposition next year in cooperation with the U.N. Development Program (UNDP). About 200 manufacturers of
People belonging to various sections have expressed grave concern over illegal fishing during the breeding season which has flooded the markets of the city as well as of other parts of the state with
Mayor: Chennai is posed to be declared a cataract free city by year-end, the Mayor, Mr. M.K. Stalin, said here on
The city of Kurchatov in northern Kazakhstan are facing the consequences of nuclear testing. Between 1949 and 1989, 470 nuclear tests were carried out at Semipalatinsk. Until 1962 the tests were on
With waters in the rain-swollen Yangtze River dangerously high and still rising, China is considering blowing up dikes and diverting flood waters into farm districts to save cities from flooding. As
