Tag: World health organisation

The steady deterioration in the air quality of several Indian cities calls for radical long-term steps to arrest the tide. Published Date - 20 March 2024, 11:45 PM File Photo It’s an urgent wake-up call that the policy makers can ill-afford to ignore. India has ...

This amounts to an increase of 26 per cent compared to cases in October, the WHO said in its latest monthly update. Published Date - 09:52 PM, Thu - 28 December 23 Representational Image.  New Delhi: There has been a global rise in mpox cases ...

The WHO’s commission is made up of 11 experts and policy-makers, including Ayuko Kato, the minister in charge of measures for loneliness and isolation in Japan, and Hina Jillani, Senior Pakistani Advocate and Human Rights Defender. It will attempt to shape global policy by analysing high-risk areas of social isolation, ...

NEW DELHI: Fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) is estimated to shorten an average Indian’s life expectancy by 5.3 years and in Delhi, often labelled the most polluted city in the world, by as much as 11.9 years when compared to the World Health Organisation (WHO) standards of 5 micrograms ...

India’s drugs regulator is in touch with its counterparts of all countries from where cases of serious adverse events have been reported allegedly from the consumption of India-made drugs, according to people familiar with the matter. Cough syrups manufactured at Sonepat’s Maiden Pharma unit have been linked to 70 ...

NEW DELHI: An MoU to cooperate in submarine production was inked between defence shipyard Mazagon Docks (MDL) and German company ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) on Wednesday, as a precursor to submission of a bid for the over Rs 42,000 crore project to build six diesel-electric submarines for the Navy.The ...

AMRITSAR: A 19-year-old Pakistani woman, Iqra Jeewani, fell in love with an Indian boy, Mulayam Singh, while playing Ludo online, came all the way to India via Kathmandu to marry him and even chose to stay illegally in Bengaluru. Her love story was cut short, as police found her ...

BHOPAL: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of spreading hatred among people in order to gain power, and alleged that he was tarnishing India’s image on international platforms.Addressing a programme organised by the Madhya Pradesh government to provide land rights of residential plots to ...

Novartis AG agreed to allow generic drugmakers in seven middle-income nations to produce a leukemia treatment, the first time a voluntary license has been granted for a patented cancer drug as part of a public health initiative. The oral drug, nilotinib, is used to treat chronic ...

Published: Published Date - 12:27 AM, Mon - 10 October 22 India’s reputation as a global pharma hub has taken a severe beating now. The World Health Organisation’s medical product alert for four ‘contaminated’ cough and cold syrups, manufactured and exported by a Haryana-based pharmaceutical firm, has turned the ...