New Delhi/Mumbai: India has been polio free for over a year. But the big danger now is a cross-border threat. Pakistan is seeing a sudden surge of new polio cases with the Taliban blocking the Polio vaccination drive in Waziristan. There have been no polio cases detected in India for a year and a half now - a tremendous milestone that has left only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria on the...
09:49 AM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi Inflation moved up to 7.55 per cent in May because of spurt in prices of potato, pulses and wheat, although onion and fruits showed a declining trend. Inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), was 7.23 per cent in April. In May last year, however, it was 9.56 per cent. Overall food inflation rose to 10.74 per cent in May, from 10.49 per cent in April....
12:47 PM, Jun 14, 2012
Islamabad: A cleric in Pakistan's Punjab province has warned that a jihad would be launched against polio vaccination teams at a time when the World Health Organisation has expressed concern at the emergence of new cases of the disease across the country. Maulvi Ibrahim Chisti of Muzaffargarh district declared the anti-polio campaign as "un-Islamic" and announced at the local mosque that jihad(holy war) should be carried out against the polio...
12:37 PM, Jun 13, 2012
New Delhi: A new study by UK-based medical journal Lancet has found that seven per cent of anti-malarial drugs tested in India are of poor quality and many are fake. The study goes on to say that 1 in every 3 anti-malarial drugs sold in southeast Asia are also fake. Researchers analysed data based on 1400 drug samples in five classes from seven Southeast Asian countries to reach to this...
10:11 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: India's wholesale price index (WPI) rose a faster-than-expected 7.23 per cent in April from a year earlier, mainly driven by higher food prices and manufactured items, government data showed on Monday. Analysts on average had expected an annual rise of 6.91 per cent. Wholesale prices rose 6.89 percent in March. The annual reading for February was upwardly revised to 7.36 percent from 6.95 percent, the government said in...
12:21 PM, May 14, 2012
Nata Menabde Age: 52 Designation: WHO Representative to India Education: MSc in Pharmacy, PhD in Pharmacology Career: Nearly 20 years at WHO; was deputy regional director for Europe before coming to India in 2010 Interests: Plays the piano and guitar. Likes classical music, jazz, water sports, history and Russian literature Q. What are the top three challenges in healthcare in India? Communicable diseases remain part of the unfinished agenda for...
02:17 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: With cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise, the government has finally agreed to make this a notifiable disease. That means, every doctor will have to register each case. At least a thousand Indians die of tuberculosis every day. The biggest threat at this point is what experts call totally drug resistant TB, which is incurable, and highly contagious. Fifteen cases have been confirmed in Mumbai alone. But...
10:03 AM, May 09, 2012
New Delhi: The overall inflation in March eased to 6.89 per cent on account of sharp decline in prices of onions, fruits and protein-based items, even as vegetables and pulses turned costlier. Inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), was 6.95 per cent in February. In March last year, it was 9.68 per cent. As per the official data released on Monday, inflation in food items was 9.94...
12:25 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: One more swine flu death has been reported from Maharashtra. After getting treatment for more than a year, 35-year-old Nandu Chavan succumbed to swine flu in Nashik on Wednesday. Earlier, four people including a 70-year-old farmer in Coimbatore died on Tuesday in Coimbatore, two people died in Bhopal and one in Pune. The virus has claimed at least 24 lives in the last month. 11 of these have...
10:34 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: After a calm year, swine flu has again reared its head in Maharashtra, with 69 cases and seven deaths reported in the last fortnight in Pune. At least 27 cases of swine flu have also been reported in Andhra Pradesh and 28 in Rajasthan with 5 deaths. Transmission in Pune has shot upto 15 per cent in this month, according to the National Institute of Virology. Authorities are releasing...
06:03 AM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: Inflation rose to 6.95 per cent in February because of sharp increase in food prices, especially vegetables and protein-based items. Inflation, as measured by the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), was 6.55 per cent in January. In February last year, it was 9.54 per cent. As per the official data released on Wednesday, food inflation was 6.07 per cent in February against (-)0.52 per cent in January. Pulses turned...
12:34 PM, Mar 14, 2012
Pune: The 'Occupy Men's Toilet' campaign started by women in China to protest against the lack of sanitation facilities for them is beginning to grip the imagination of women in the city. Activists, working women and college students are now saying that if the 78 newly elected women representatives in the civic house do nothing on the issue, they will launch a similar drive in the city. The PMC has...
09:48 AM, Mar 03, 2012
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad made the announcement after most of the environmental samples for polio virus tested negative for the first time in 2010. ...
01:29 PM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: India, which has been polio-free for over a year now, was today taken off the list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation. This announcement was made by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad at the polio summit 2012 in New Delhi in the presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Azad said he has received a letter this morning stating that the "WHO has taken India's name...
11:26 AM, Feb 25, 2012
New Delhi: Inflation based on the all India Consumer Price Index stood at 7.65 per cent in January, as per the first nationwide retail inflation data released by the government on Tuesday. While 'food and beverages' reported a moderate rate of price rise of 4.11 per cent year-on-year in January, the inflation numbers for fuel and light, and clothing, bedding and footwear segments were in double-digits. Overall retail inflation in...
11:59 AM, Feb 21, 2012
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04:53 PM, Feb 17, 2012
London: Malaria kills over 1.2 million people every year worldwide, twice as many deaths as thought earlier, while deaths from the mosquito-borne disease in India could be more than 45 times higher than what is currently estimated, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation who collected data on malaria deaths from 1980 to 2010 found that 1.2 million people died...
05:17 PM, Feb 03, 2012
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08:38 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Amid signs of moderation in price rise situation in the country, the January inflation numbers are likely to drop below 7 per cent, said Chief Economic Adviser Kaushik Basu. "Inflation figures are going down. The January figure, which you will get in middle of February, my expectation is that it is going to be below 7 per cent ," he said. Basu, who also heads a Prime Minister...
07:05 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: India has achieved a huge milestone in eradicating polio but when it comes to leprosy, the chilling fact is that cases are on the rise. In fact, India accounts for 55 per cent of the world's leprosy cases. India officially eliminated leprosy six years ago, but reports now suggest that the cases of leprosy are going up, especially in urban areas. Out of the 2.1 lakh cases in...
09:46 AM, Jan 31, 2012
