Category Health Care
Swiss agrochemicals firm Syngenta and Germany’s Bayer have been accused of distributing dangerous pesticides in India’s Punjab region without sufficient safety information. The Basel-based firm says it is investigating the claims. OCT 14, 2015 – 08:15 The report concerns Syngenta… Continue Reading →
Odisha Sun Times Bureau Baripada, Oct 6: A day after a pregnant woman was allegedly beaten to death at the district headquarters hospital in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj, the nurse has been placed under suspension by the district administration today. The deceased… Continue Reading →
Statement by S P Udayakumar, on behalf of The Green Tamil/Pachai Tamizhagam The long list of the BJP government’s ‘long on rhetoric but short on content’ projects such as Swatch Bharat, ‘Make in India,’ and ‘Digital India’ gains yet another… Continue Reading →
Vandana Yadav | New Delhi Oct 08, 2015 07:01 PM IST The share of the BRICS grouping countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in the global chemical production grew from 13 per cent at the turn of the century to… Continue Reading →
Vol – L No. 41, October 10, 2015 | Narendra Gupta and Chhaya Pachauli The Rajasthan government has planned to hand over its public health centres to private operators through a process of bidding. However this will have a debilitating effect on the inadequate… Continue Reading →
Disabled married daughter can’t avail CGHS: Health Ministry By Aman Sharma, ET Bureau | 12 Oct, 2015, 03.15AM IST NEW DELHI: A disabled but married daughter of a government employee cannot be entitled to subsidised medical facilities under the Central Government… Continue Reading →
State-run NPCIL and French MNC Areva, which are slated to collaborate on a nuclear power plant in the port town, are wrangling over terms and tariff. Meanwhile, the ruling BJP’s ally, Shiv Sena, is opposed to the project. So are… Continue Reading →
The Court convicted filmmaker Jerrit John and sentenced him to five years’ rigorous imprisonment for attacking his ex-girlfriend Aryanka Hosbetkar Rebecca Samervel,TNN | Oct 10, 2015, 12.04 AM IST A file pic of Jerrit John. (TOI Photo) MUMBAI: A special women’s court… Continue Reading →
The 2015 Quality of Death Index has placed India shamefully low – 67th among 80 countries -when it comes to people receiving good end-of-life care. This means that people in countries as small as Ghana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe are reaching… Continue Reading →
The Semipalatinsk tests left hundreds of thousands of people with health problems As a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, it should really have come as no surprise that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would refuse to authorise the use of a nuclear weapon… Continue Reading →