By Satish Shile, DH News Service, Bangalore:

Like coriander and hyacinths, milk samples too have been found to contain traces of lead (pb) which can cause serious health disorders.

Students of Reva Institute of Science & Management collected milk samples in Bangalore and on the outskirts and subjected them to lab tests.

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Rajarhat-Gopalpur Municipality has lodged a police complaint against a mobile service provider for erecting a signal tower off VIP Road without its permission.

The municipality said the unauthorised cellphone tower was exposing residents of the locality to harmful

The city government has decided to revamp the existing system of checking the sale and supply of food items, eatables and drinks at hotels, restaurants, shops and other food outlets across the city by bringing changes in the food laws.

At a meeting of the city government

In its latest survey on noise pollution, the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) has found the vehicular traffic-induced noise in the city at an alarmingly high level, necessitating some regulatory measures to reduce people

Flour millers have complained that the quality of wheat recently imported for the NWFP is

Most of the coloured iftar items including the reddish jilapi, the saffron beguni, peaju, potato chop, sweets, biryani and white muri (puffed rice) pose serious health hazards to the consumers as textile dyes, carbide, ethopene and urea are being used to make them look more attractive to the customers, said sources in the Institute of Public Health.

Chandigarh, September 05 An Indo-US joint workshop, the first of its kind, on the environmental risks of the respiratory diseases started here on Friday. The workshop is focussing on preparing a list of recommendations to be followed in the two countries to combat environment-related health hazards.

Nearly 20 experts from top institutes of the USA, including the National Institute of Health (NIH), are participating in the workshop being organised by the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at PGI.