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Village Panchayat in Tamil Nadu Bans Tobacco Consumption

...adu has imposed a ban on tobacco consumption among villagers . Aghast over an ever-increasing trend of tobacco consumption, the village panchayat unanimously passed a resolution to ban the entry and consumption of tobacco products. "Youth and school going children have started consuming tobacco products li...

'Walk of Shame' Triggers Toilet Consciousness

...tion facilities in rural areas . But a majority of villagers were initially hesitant to use them. Each of the ...s Features. Fed up with the stubborn refusal of villagers to use their private latrines, Sarpanch Dinesh Kaushik decided to take drastic action. He invited of...

Parents Boycott India School After HIV Kids Allowed Back

...ure the children were accepted. "I hope that the villagers will realise their mistake and accept the children," said Kerala education minister M.A. Baby. India, with a billion-plus population, has 5.7 million people infected with HIV -- the world's highest in absolute numbers per country. Officials said ...

Non-availability of Anti-rabies Vaccines Put Jackal Bitten Patients in a Fix

...last two days, the jackal has attacked and injured villagers - including women and children - in half a dozen villages under the Manjhagarh block of the district, about 200 km from here. The injured are being treated at different hospitals in Gopalganj, the home district of union railway minister Lalu Prasad...

Nearly 100 People Injured by Jackal

...last two days, the jackal has attacked and injured villagers - including women and children - in half a dozen villages under the Manjhagarh block of the district, about 200 km from here. The injured are being treated at different hospitals in Gopalganj, the home district of union railway minister Lalu Prasa...

India Records Substantial Decline in Polio Cases

...reas. 'We and our state governments are telling villagers to take special care of sanitation. Polio is a health menace and has nothing to do with any religion and we appeal to all religious leaders to lend their support to wipe out polio from India,' he said. The ministry has also asked the Bihar and Utt...

Bihar Under the Grip of Kala Azar

...t transmits the disease multiplies in the cow dung villagers use liberally to plaster their shanties or as cow dung cakes for fuel. The flies survive on the sap in banana and bamboo groves and the decomposed cow dung heaps. They make their home in the straw thatches of houses. The disease is characterised ...

The Plight of Jharkhand's Mysterious deaf Village

...t reason can be known only after investigating the villagers and studying their medical history." When Jharkh..., he said: "I came to know about the plight of the villagers just two days ago. "I have asked the district administration to go to the village with doctors an...

Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China

...ing allows urban dwellers to have one child, while villagers can have two if the first child is a girl. Worse... children. Anti-riot police were called in after villagers set fires and smashed cars Saturday at the Shabi township government office in the Guangxi region, H...

Miners in Madhya Pradesh at High Risk of Developing TB

...e (RNTCP) continue to evade these poverty stricken villagers and even when they manage to get medicines, they are not cured because of high levels of malnutrition. As most of the people who work at the stone quarries have not been included in the below poverty line (BPL) list, they are not provided with BPL ...

Anthrax Claims Two Lives in Orissa

...ent a team of doctors to the two villages to treat villagers and create awareness among them about the disease. "The team will camp in the villages to monitor the situation. They have also destroyed cattle meat preserved in some houses there," the official said. "As a precautionary measure, another health ...

Chikungunya Scare in Orissa: 4 Die

...tion of around 8,000. "The disease spread to other villagers only due to negligence on the part of health officials who didn't bother when the first case was reported," alleged Lokanath Sahu, chairman of Odagaon block. "The cases are increasing day by day. All the affected persons are suffering from high fev...

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

...en reduced to begging for survival in Orissa after villagers ostracized her and her son out of fear that the di...took refuge in a deserted grain storehouse. "The villagers did not allow her to use the common tube well and stopped their own children from playing with her i...

Social Worker in Jharkhand Spreads AIDS Awareness Through Music

... health and sanitation related problems. We inform villagers how to fight AIDS, malaria, leprosy and other maladies," said Nayak. "Music has the power to attract all. Villagers are ready to accept messages if they are convinced. And what better way than folk music to spread the messages," he added. Folk ...

Yellow Rain Lashes Uttar Pradesh Village

... roofs and dish antennae across the village. The villagers are scared that the pungent yellow drops, may be a sign of pending catastrophe or an epidemic. "The phenomenon is on for the past eight-ten days. It happens between 6.30 to 7.15 pm. Villagers believe that it is a natural calamity. We are definitel...

Garbage Dumping Ground in Pune Causing Health Hazards to Nearby Residents

...ity, is creating a host of problems for the nearby villagers . Urali Devachi village has been turned into a garbage dumping ground for tonnes of waste generated by the citys nearly five million plus population. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) shifted the dumping ground from Kothrud to Urali Devachi, lo...

Police Recover Remains of Fetuses from Haryana Maternity Home

...d that everything is political. Police and the villagers suspect the remains could be that of unborn female fetuses. It is common in several parts of the country to abort female foetuses. Despite India banning use of technology to determine the sex of unborn fetuses and termination of pregnancies based ...

Women Deliver Babies With Eye Defects in Jharkhand Villages

...abies with eyesight defects. Environmentalists and villagers has blamed the air and water pollution //caused by...nto water sources - a huge threat to the health of villagers living in nearby areas. According to health experts, the waste released into streams might contain...

A Village in Madhya Pradesh Achieves Total Sanitation

...ot just external cleanliness that the around 1,950 villagers have imbibed. Only two houses in the village had...a lot of counseling had to be done to convince the villagers to discard the age-old tradition of taking a 'lota' (small utensil) and going out for defecation. ...

Jharkhand Elephant may Have Been Poisoned

...eath by villagers. Elephants have caused havoc and villagers might have used poison to drive away the tuskers,"...d behaving abnormally and died within a few hours, villagers said. They added that the cause of death could be the pesticides sprinkled on nearby crops. "No ex...

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