The DC-10 aircraft stationed at Chennai's Anna International Airport is innocuous from outside. Step inside, and it is a modern eye hospital. ORBIS, the world's only flying eye hospital with a fully

Villages in Maharashtra enjoy the benefits of a campaign that lays on cleanliness, self-reliance and community-sharing, ideas that were popularized by the legendary social reformer Gadge Baba.

The Eighth Conference of the Parties held in New Delhi achieves consensus on many contentious issues related to emissions of greenhouses gases, except the issue of future commitments by the Parties.

A medical cyclotron project, designed to cater to specialized needs in the medical field, gets under way in Kolkata. West Bengal Chief Minister Budhadeb Bhattarcharjee laid the foundation stone of

While the health care industry has welcomed the corporatisation of diagnostic laboratories, serious questions persist on the quality of service many of these small as well as big players offer and

The latest report published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome, 'The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2002', points to a disturbing trend on the extent of hunger and

The Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhopal, rejects the CBI's plea to dilute the criminal charges against the fugitive former Union Carbide Corporation chairman Warren Anderson from culpable homicide to

The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests seeks to clear 12.5 lakh hectares of forest land by evicting its 10-million strong tribal population.

The US Census Bureau's report on income and poverty shows that the weakening economy has begun to affect large segments of the population , regardless of race, region or class.

The Maharashtra Government plays down the significance of the death of some 22 children rendered vulnerable by malnutrition, in the predominantly tribal Thane district. Over the last five months, 22

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