Peak tides tested Bangkok's flood defenses on Sunday as hope rose that the center of the Thai capital might escape the worst floods in decades, but that was little comfort for swamped suburbs and p

The NOTE India (National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication), body spearheading the anti-tobacco movement, on Sunday accused the Centre of investing Rs. 40,000 crore in tobacco companies in contravention of its anti-tobacco campaign.

Apart from this invaluable human loss, the government spends Rs. 10,000 crore in treatment of tobacco related illness, several thousand crore of rupees on tobacco-disease prevention and tobacco awareness.

Medical facilities have collapsed as encephalitis epidemic continues to rage

Even as the rest of India recovers from its Diwali celebrations, residents of Poorvanchal have been marking a grim time that descends on the eastern Uttar Pradesh region each year: a time local people call the season of death.

Free medical check-up and treatment scheme to be launched on November 14, informs Sheila Dikshit.

Close to one lakh children below the age of five years died of diarrhoea attributable to rotavirus infection in 2008, accounting for 22 per cent of the total deaths reported globally, reports the l

With over 400 children dying of Japanese encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh so far this year, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has suggested the setting up a group of ministers

With 10 more persons succumbing to encephalitis, the death toll in the viral disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh has climbed to 488 this year, health officials said on Tuesday.

Ten persons suffering from the disease died in various hospitals in the region in the last four days, they said.

SHILLONG: About 37.7 percent of the state’s population has been covered under the Measles Catch Up Campaign which is being carried out to provide children between 9 months to 10 years of age with a