An audit of a District Tuberculosis Control Centre here has led to the discovery of alleged discrepancies in its account books.A two-member audit team- from the office of the joint director, health,

In the first major turnaround in the international sanctions regime clamped on the sub-continent following last month's nuclear testing, the World Bank is slated to clear late tonight a

The State government has ordered a high-level inquiry into the large-scale deaths of tea plantation workers in the three Upper Assam districts of Jorhat, Sibsagar and Golaghat where gastro-enteritis

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug to fight tuberculosis, the first new treatment in more than a decade for the virulent disease, and one that doesn't require as many doses in

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) decision to blacklist Binnie and partners (B&P), consultants for the Mumbai Sewerage Disposal Project (MSDP), has not gone down well with the World Bank,

No pain-killers: Thousands of cancer patients in the State are reeling under the impact of an acute shortage of morphine, the most commonly used pain-killer. According to reports,the Regional Cancer

It has been seven days since the Met Department announced the early arrival of the monssons. And it has been seven days since there was a downpour in the city. Before anyone jumps to the conclusion

The Nameri Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam's Sonitpur district has been made a national park. Home to the rate, white-winged wood duck as well as tigers, elephants, leopards and other wildlife, it is

The Central Government will not clear the Cogentrix power project in Karnataka until the Supreme Court disposes off a case pending before it, Union Power Minister P R Kumaramangalam said on

Health minister of southern states today decided to undertake re-registration of doctors in both allopathic and Indian systems of