Chikungunya spreads round the year and is as prevalent as dengue, NIV finds after redefining symptoms

The crisis is mainly being brought about by three specific factors: climate change, pollution and poor farming practices

As North India awaits its share of Southwest monsoon, do weather occurrences in the pre-monsoon period this year (unprecedentedly violent dust storms and thunderstorms) a forewarning of an impendin

Even as rains continued to lash the city on Monday, it marked the best recorded overall Air Quality Index (AQI) since air quality monitoring began in June 2015 for the city at 13.

A new study has shown that an early warning system may be developed to predict dengue outbreaks by mining meteorological and epidemiological data for a given geographic area.

KOLKATA: A post-graduate student of Calcutta Medical College has tested positive for dengue, making it the first case after the onset of monsoon this year.

Tinsukia: Waterlogging of arterial roads here in less than an hour of heavy showers on Thursday exposed this Upper Assam town's lack of preparedness to combat flash floods.

Dangers of climate change very real: Suresh Prabhu

With the monsoon ready to drench the city, the Jagraon Municipal Council is yet to carry out fogging.