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Border Security Force Troopers Turn To Yoga

...l at least for personnel deployed in the far-flung northeast region," he said. Source-IANS...

Hundreds dying in northeast from AIDS

A large number of people in India's northeast living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are s...-positive people, second only to South Africa. The northeast has been declared as one of the country's high-risk zones with close to 100,000 people infected with...

Homosexuality, drug abuse increasing HIV in India: study

...the main reasons for the rise in HIV infections in northeast India and also in major cities like// Delhi, Mumba...t is the main risk factor for HIV infection in the northeast of India (especially in Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland), and features increasingly in the epidemics o...

US NGO to Counsel HIV/AIDS Patients in Assam

...00 people infected with HIV. Authorities in the northeast fear the disease may further spread because of the region's acute drug problem. India's northeast lies on the edge of the heroin-producing Golden Triangle of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand and independe...

Kalaazar sweeping through Bihar, 93 dead

...s are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and northeast Brazil. Experts say over 60 percent of the cases in India are found in Bihar alone. Source-IANS SM...

Bihar to Wipe Out Kalaazar by 2010

...s are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and northeast Brazil. Over 60 percent of the cases in India are found in Bihar alone, experts say. Source-IANS...

Five Die of Food Poisoning in Chhattisgarh

...ght in Kilkila village in Jashpur district, 480 km northeast of Raipur. Five of them were declared brought dead at a private hospital while two others are battling for life, district superintendent A.R. Korram said on phone. The feast was organised by a Gond tribal woman, Sukunti Bai, to celebrate the birth ...

Leading Polio Activist Doctor in Pakistan Killed

...e bomb exploded in Salarzai, a village about 50 km northeast of Khar, the main town in Bajur Agency. The blast killed Khan instantly, while it injured three in his car, local officials said.Amir Khan, medical superintendent at the Khar District Headquarters Hospital, said residents of Mullah Said Banda in t...

Assam Reports HIV Suicides, Treatment a Distant Dream

...ple, reportedly surpassing South Africa. India's northeast has been declared as one of the country's high-risk zones with close to 100,000 people infected with HIV. There are some 1,750 HIV-positive people in Assam although unofficial estimates put the number at close to 30,000. Despite the National AIDS C...

Harbinger of Hope for Kala Azar Victims of Bihar

...s are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and northeast Brazil. Experts say over 60 percent of the cases in India are found in Bihar alone. Source-IANS...

Winter Warmth Breaks All Records

... Asia, western Africa, southeastern Brazil and the northeast half of the United States, with cooler-than-average conditions in parts of Saudi Arabia and the central United States. While the Centre would not link the developments to global warming, the study itself had been taken up as part of the work of the...

Apollo Opens Blood Cancer Clinic in Kolkata

...hat patients from Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa and the northeast prefer to come to Kolkata for getting medical facilities here." he added. Apollo Gleneagles Hospital is Kolkata's 325-bed multi-specialty tertiary hospital with comprehensive oncology services covering medical oncology and surgical aspects. Sour...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

...lls hundreds each year, especially in India's poor northeast region. According to India's Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises, the country's total biotech exports in the financial year that ended March 2006 were $763 million. Health-related biotechnology exports were nearly 75 percent of total India...

Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago Too, Thanks to Fossil Fuels

...e rifting apart of the Earth’s crust to create the northeast Atlantic Ocean might have been triggered by a mysterious past global warming episode. And just like the today’s climate change, that global warming too started with fossil fuels, of a sort. The fuels weren’t necessarily coal or oil and they were...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

...d in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia, Scientists tracked an infection called white syndrome on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral colonies live atop limestone scaffolding, which is built from the secretions of the coral creatures called polyps. The vivid colors of the coral ...

Malaria Claims 25 Lives in Assam

... fatal consequences of malaria," Sarma said. The northeast is a known "malaria zone" with the disease claiming an estimated 500 lives annually. Government authorities are worried the disease might spread among hundreds of Indian troops deployed along the Indo-Bhutan border for counter-insurgency operations...

Rescheduled: Aerial Mosquito Treatment for Philadelphia

..., the applicator will spray wetlands at the city's northeast wastewater treatment plant near the Betsy Ross Bridge. Certain species of mosquitoes carry West Nile virus, which, when transmitted to people, can cause West Nile encephalitis, an infection that can result in an inflammation of the brain. According...

Smallpox Alert in Northeast

...l government has sounded a health alert in India's northeast asking authorities to take immediate precautionary measures following reports of a smallpox outbreak in Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials said Monday. "Following the centre's instruction, the Tripura government has made arrangements for free consu...

Bihar Under the Grip of Kala Azar

...s are found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and northeast Brazil. Experts say over 60 percent of the cases in India are found in Bihar alone....

Various Civil Society Groups Form Alliance to Fight HIV/AIDS

...ositive people, surpassing South Africa. India's northeast has been declared as one of the country's high-risk zones with close to 100,000 people infected with HIV. There are some 1,780 HIV-positive people in Assam although unofficial estimates put the number at close to 30,000. "The number of AIDS cases i...

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