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45 People die in West Bengal due to Dengue and suspected Japanese Encephalitis

...e spread of dengue disease. In Kolkata, the city mayor declared 70 percent of the municipal wards dengue affected on Tuesday, while earlier the state health minister had admitted that dengue has become an epidemic in Bengal. "So far, 19 people have died from dengue," Prabhakar Chatterjee, the state's hea...

US Reportedly Experimenting on Nepali Soldiers

... of the local government body objected, saying the mayor had not consulted them. They also expressed misgivings as to whether the volunteers knew what they were walking into. Chitrakar is reported to have alleged that the researchers offered him and other dissenters watches and luxury goods to go along wit...

Buddhadeb pledges to donate his body

...hree months back. He expressed his wish to Kolkata mayor Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, who is also a functionary of Ganadarpan. While making his pledge, Jyoti Basu had said he had decided to donate his body to spare his family members the trouble of "taking me to the crematorium". Ganadarpan said about 200...

A nod for legal drug trade in Vancouver

...drugs is in the pipeline in Vancouver. Vancouver’s mayor is considering providing free drugs to addicts// to help clean up the Downtown Eastside before the 2010 Winter Olympics. According to Sam Sullivan a donation by an anonymous donor of $500,000 to fund an innovative harm-reduction program is the spea...

Maggie Daley to Undergo a Surgery Biopsy to Remove a Tumor from Her Breast

...sthesia and is expected to last about an hour. The mayor plans to stay by her side during the surgery. Dr. Kevin P. Bethke, Maggie Daley's physician said that Maggie Daley’s condition was stable and well controlled. Maggie Daley accepted a $1 million grant from Abbott Laboratories which will be solely us...

Heat Avoidance Advice Insufficient During Heat Waves

...pared for the impact of hotter summers. London’s mayor is being particularly proactive with regard to climate change, and is developing a statutory adaptation strategy to ensure that the infrastructure is appropriate for future climates. Climate change needs to be taken into account in health protecti...

Typhoon Saomai Claims Her 330th Victims In China

...from that place alone to 186. Cai Meisheng, vice mayor of Fuding, said the recovery of bodies could become more difficult as some could be trapped in the 491 sunken vessels or entwined in fishing nets. Rescuers have retrieved two boats, but Cai said the city government had appealed to the Fujian provin...

Two-thirds of outdoor pools in Montreal are closed

...ea where some of the worst results were found. The mayor of that borough announced a sequence of steps to make sure that the problem is rectified. The department officials on the proposal by Quebec Health Minister Philippe Couillard will add water quality to the recommendations concerning the safety of p...

Family Approaches President for Mercy Killing

...president several persons have offered help. The mayor of Jaipur, Ashok Parnami, has assured to help them open a kiosk. "The government would pay for their treatment," Rajendra Bhanawat, divisional commissioner, said. Source-IANS...

Dengue Cases in West Bengal Reaches 400 Mark

...d in Bengal 43 years ago. Early this month, city mayor Bikash Bhattacharya had said that only 29 people in Kolkata were found affected by dengue with one death reported. He had said the situation was not alarming, especially compared to the previous year when 1,000 people were affected and 12 deaths oc...

Dengue Toll Touches four in West Bengal

...ed by dengue with one death reported. Though the mayor said the situation was not alarming, especially compared to the previous year when 1,000 people were affected and 12 deaths occurred, more cases have been reported since. Two cases of chikungunya were confirmed in the state earlier. The two who t...

More Funds Must Flow-NYC Mayor Talks Tough

New York city’s mayor Michael Bloomberg has called for more funds to flo... Calling for a minimum of a billion dollars, the mayor put the estimated cost on New York’s health departments in the treatment of the affected as 150 mill...

Chandigarh Councillors Tested for AIDS in Awareness Campaign

Sixteen councillors in the city - led by a woman mayor - Saturday got themselves tested for HIV as part o...State for Finance and local MP Pawan Kumar Bansal, mayor Harjinder Kaur and 15 other councillors. Out of 35 councillors in the local municipal corporation,...

American Who Set Off TB Scare Apologizes, Lung Surgery an Option for Him

...the propriety of his actions. Interestingly the mayor of the island of Santorini in Greece, Angelos Rousso, denied Speakers marriage took place at all. He told agencies, "There was no wedding. They came for a marriage but they did not have the required papers." He said the couple stayed in a hotel for t...

Germany, Greece Hold Gay Rights Marches

...st still fear for their jobs," Berlin's homosexual mayor Klaus Wowereit said in a closing speech. In senior positions one can be homosexual, "but you cannot say so," he said, adding that equal rights had not been achieved for gays. Axel Hochrein of the German gay and lesbian association criticised German...

Biggest Gay Pride Celebration in Toronto

... was in 1987 that the first gay pride started. The mayor then refused to take part in the celebration. Today there is a marked rise in the approval of homosexuality. JC Lavigne, who has been married to his partner Jorge Velasquez for a year-and-a-half, said he thought the parade had attracted many people ...

Civic Authorities in US Seek to Stem Urban Decay

... Jay Williams, the city's personable, 35-year-old mayor who grew up in Youngstown, said it took a long time for city planners to understand that no longer having several big steel plants along the Mahoning River isn't all that bad. ''This community has been looking in the rearview mirror, still mourning...

World's Oldest Man Says Sorry He's Still Alive

...ate from the Guinness Book of World Records by the mayor of his local municipality. Tanabe, from Miyazaki prefecture on the southern island of Kyushu, was born on September 18, 1895 -- before Japan became a world player, Australia became independent or the Wright Brothers created the first plane. "It is ...

Paris Launches Drive for Clean Cars

... than what is truely indispensable," the Socialist mayor said. The clean car service would mirror a new scheme being launched next month in which 10,000 bicycles will be made available for rental across the city. Delanoe said the service will not exclusively offer electricity-powered cars but look at ot...

Half a Million Dollars Offered for GPs With Expertise in Anesthetics and Obstetrics

...country town in New South Wales in Australia. Its mayor Peter Speirs is offering you half a million dollars. He fears that if the town doesn't get a suitable person, expectant mothers will have to travel an extra 80 kilometres to give birth.And many of these women would already have travelled 150 kilom...

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