Antimicrobial resistance: Prevention key to control pandemics
Important to prevent emergence and spread of infections to reduce need and dependence on antimicrobials
Delhi smog is back
Cocktail of pollutants and severe smog episodes can be deadly in Delhi and NCR even as Delhi government delays finalising air quality index
India is 20 yrs behind in managing non-communicable diseases, shows survey
Pilot assessment in Shimla and Udaipur shows high prevalence of hypertension, diabetes and poor health infrastructure
New health threat: a sexually transmitted superbug deadlier than AIDS
Drug resistant gonorrhoea strain poses public health crisis; US Centers for Disease Control requests funds to research new antibiotics for treatment
PETA takes jallikattu protest to London
Bull-taming sport of Tamil Nadu allowed this year despite ban by Union environment ministry
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 3, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
Should smallpox virus specimens be destroyed or retained?
World Health Assembly to take a call on two remaining specimens in upcoming meet even as some scientists urge against their destruction; two …
Diabetes drug ban spells trouble for patients, doctors
Experts say pioglitazone difficult to substitute and health ministry has imposed ban without a back up plan
Environmental crimes: India may take upto 33 yrs to clear case backlog, says report
By the end of 2018, the number of cases pending trial climbed to 48,238
Delhi-NCR air quality commission: Order, order to new order
As the new ordinance seeks curtailment of judicial intervention, the executive faces the real challenge of pushing difficult and inconvenient …
WTO ‘for’ US meat exports; Indian poultry eaters at increased risk of antibiotic resistance
India’s measures against avian influenza were termed as ‘inconsistent’ by WTO
About 100 elephants paraded in Kerala's Thrissur Pooram without permission
Jumbos not registered with the Animal Welfare Board, but state government refuses to stop festival
India launches vaccine against Japanese encephalitis
Can the indigenously developed JENVAC curb spread of brain fever?
Dangers of letting cars dictate city design
If any other cause was responsible for so many deaths and injuries as we see on our roads it would have been a state of emergency
UN Crime Congress adopts Doha declaration on combatting wildlife crimes
International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime calls on members to recognise wildlife and forest crime as a transnational organised crime …
Green tribunal orders closure of 34 illegal packaged drinking water units in Noida, Greater Noida
Ban on use of groundwater for construction in the two NCR cities to continue
Bihar bans gutkha on World No Tobacco Day
The ban is already successful in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala
SC takes cognisance of alarming increase in air pollution in Delhi
Centre for Science and Environment welcomes apex court’s decision to accelerate priority measures to cut toxic vehicular emissions and air …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 23, 2020)
Okhla waste to energy plant put on notice for excess emissions
Residents had complained to chief minister Kejriwal during janata durbar; plant shut for now because of boiler malfunction
New swine flu kit makes disease detection easier in India
Portable testing kit gives results within an hour
'Mainland tribal people also need autonomous councils'
Autonomous councils in the Northeast are the reason why people there did not lose access to land and forests, says Virginius Xaxa, head of …
Bhopal waste to be disposed of in the sea?
Taking cue from disposal of chemical weapons in 2009, Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee suggests incinerating the waste on a floating …
UGC guidelines on phasing out animal dissection spark controversy
Is virtual dissection an effective learning tool?
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 28, 2020)
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