measles , diarrhoea, and rabies have claimed 121 lives in Nepal in this year's rainy season. Three districts of the

Indian lakes are no longer serene waterbodies. Instead, they have become stinking cesspools, a result of continuous inflow of sewage and massive siltation. As the lakes die a premature death, the question that arises is who is responsible for this sorry s

• Finalisation of master plan of Udaipur city, setting apart adequate areas for construction of hotels and prohibiting new construction within 200m of the lakes. • Diversion of all

Local chieftains constructed the lakes of Udaipur

The government announces a project to revitalise the dying upper lake

The twin cities of Secunderabad and Hyderabad have converted the historic Hussain Sagar lake into a convenient effluent site

At least 217 people have succumbed to spinal meningitis over the past two months in Togo, Burkina Faso and Ghana, according to a recent World Health Organization (who) report. who said in a statement

WITH re-emergence of diseases once thought to have been eradicated, concerned us and European health officials are establishing a global early warning network which will keep abreast of all

AS IF a deep economic crisis was not enough, Russians have to now contend with the snowballing effect of the AIDS epidemic. Earlier, as part of the Soviet Union, the people led a

The deadly ebola virus has struck again. It has already claimed 16 lives in Gabon and going by the widespread cases of haemmorhagic fever in the region, the World Health Organization has declared it