Mumbai: Even as cases of chikungunya are on the rise in the city, doctors are puzzled over a new viral fever that mimics symptoms of chikungunya, measles and dengue. While several confirmed cases of chikungunya have been reported from private hospitals in South and Central Mumbai, there are more cases of this unknown fever.
The MCD is to rope in city cricketers Ishant Sharma, Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag as a part of its multi-media in public awareness campaign for sanitation drive in the city.
The multi-media campaign is to come in the run up to this year's Commnwealth Games being hosted in the city.
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) has taken up a project to lay a mastic asphalt coat on all motorable roads in the city proper before Puja.
According to civic engineers, laying bitumen on the surface is the cheapest way to metal a road. Bituminous roads are good in dry weather. A layer of mastic asphalt prevents water from seeping to the bitumen.
Putting to rest all speculations on immediate sealing of mobile phone towers in the capital and maintaining that the health hazards of cell towers have not been scientifically proved, the standing committee of the MCD on Tuesday gave one month's time to the cellular operators to adhere to the new policy.
Following the action taken by the Noida Authority against unauthorised cellphone towers in the area, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided that no such towers in the Capital will be sealed for the time being.
Giving nod to a liberalised policy for installation of mobile phone towers, the MCD on Monday said that those installed over roof tops of schools, hospitals and dispensaries in the city would be removed immediately, while those in areas like residential apartments and commercial places will continue to exist.
Mumbai: With the city facing one of its worst water crises, proposals to alleviate the problem are aplenty. One such proposal is by a city-based firm that claims it can produce water out of thin air.
This can happen only in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Apparently, malaria clinics of the civic body are being run not by doctors but by laboratory technicians and pharmacists, with the latter also prescribing medicine to patients who visit these clinics.
A senior official of the health department of KMC said, over the past one year no doctor has been assigned to look
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is finally through with its report on mobile towers, saying that they will be allowed only in the areas where people visit for a short time so that they may not be affected by radiations.
According to the report, there are 700 illegal towers in the city. MCD is planning to take action against them.
