Union health minister, Shatrughan Sinha informed the audience that every five second oen person goes blind in the world. There are 45 million people who are blind and this figure is going to double

In a bid to further boost the ongoing AIDS awareness campaign at state level, the department of public health (Maharashtra) has decided to hold state level, the department of public heath has decided

The Maharashtra is all sert to achieve the total eradication of polio by 2005, said Minister for Health Digvijay Khanvilkar. He claimed that the State had achieved a remarkable progress towards the

Maharashtra government struggled to remain in power in 2002, even as the state reeled under severe energy crisis during the year. The Congress-led government decided to buy electricity from the

Contrary to its image as a 'spoilsport ' of development, the Environment and Forests ministry had adopted a pro-active policy clearing a number of projects involving thousands of crores of rupees

The Central Railway authorities in the Nagpur division are toying with an idea of involving a private party to take over cleanliness drive at Nagpur station (Maharashtra) as a turnkey project on the

A sudden surge in the number of patients rushing to hospitals in Mumbai with respiratory complaints is causing concern about the ill-effects of winter smog. Doctors have warned health officials that

Maharashtra Revenue Minister Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar has has said that the state government has spent about Rs 1650 crore from March 2003 to tackle drought situation in the

With the final ratio of an attack per 34 seconds, the recent study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been an eye- opener over the causes of heart attacks. The study discloses that the heart

After due process of consultation, technical validation sessions and public hearings, the Maharashtra Energy Regulatory Commission comprising Chairman P Subrahmanyam and Members Jayant Deo and Dr