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Gajapati (Orissa), Sep 4 (ANI): Malaria scare is on an all time high in Orissa’s Gajapati district as at least 15 tribals have succumbed to the deadly disease in the past one-month and around 300 people are being treated at ill-equipped primary health care centres.

Being one of the tribal [...]

London, Aug 21 (ANI): A man has developed an obsession with cleanliness ever since he underwent an eye operation.

Palmer had developed a corneal disease, which blurred his vision.

Following the cornea transplant in March this year, the 46-year-old Will Palmer can’t stand a speck of dust. He now [...]

Washington, Aug 8 (ANI): Using scary metaphors for any kind of natural disaster or health scare can not only make people notice it, but it can also spread panic or cynicism among populations, according to a study.

“Such terms can make people sit up and listen, but they can also lead to panic or cynicism,” said [...]

Srinagar, July 5 (ANI): Several youth from different States have come together to spread awareness about the need to maintain cleanliness and preserve popular tourist spots in Jammu and Kashmir.

The youngsters are participating in a nine-day camp under a National Youth Camp and cleaning the area surrounding world famous Jhelum Lake.

Organised by the [...]

Koraput (Orissa), July 4 (ANI): Tribals in Orissa’s Koraput District have launched a sanitation drive to keep their villages clean and hygienic.

‘Sanjog’, a government run programme, was organised jointly by Panchayat Raj department, women and child department, health department and education [...]

Colombo, July 3 (ANI): Despite promising to resettle 80 percent of Tamil refugees by the end of this year, the Sri Lankan Government has reportedly started building permanent camps for most of the 300,000 refugees, who are being held there since Tamil Tigers’ defeat in May.

The Times quoted aid workers, as saying that permanent buildings [...]

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): The Indian Railways will introduce several new facilities on the trains to improve the cleanliness in trains and also to make the journey more comfortable for the passengers.

Presenting the Railway Budget 2009-10 in the Lok Sabha today, the Union [...]

London, June 24 (ANI): ‘Friends’ stars Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow are set to come together one more time in comedy series Web Therapy.

The actors will reunite in the second series of the show, which can be seen online, along side Scottish actor Alan Cummings.

Kudrow, who played the weird Phoebe Buffay in Friends, will feature [...]

London, June 24 (ANI): ‘Friends’ stars Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow are set to come together one more time in comedy series Web Therapy.

The actors will reunite in the second series of the show, which can be seen online, along side Scottish actor Alan Cummings.

Kudrow, who played the weird Phoebe Buffay in Friends, will feature [...]

Dehradun, June 19 (ANI): Normal life has been badly disrupted following an indefinite strike by civic body employees, causing acute water shortage and leading to growing garbage dumps in various parts of Uttarakhand.
Tourists and local residents are bearing the brunt of the ongoing strike as there is acute water shortage and accumulation of garbage dumps [...]

HONG KONG: South Korea’s Incheon International Airport has been named the world’s best by travellers, snatching the title from Hong Kong, which won the award in seven of the past eight years, a survey published on Wednesday showed.
Hong Kong International Airport ranked second while Singapore’s Changi Airport was third in the annual survey by British-based [...]

Gorakhpur, Apr 23 (ANI): Midday meal programme has been successful in Uttar Pradesh in getting the rural young boys and girls to attend schools and study.

This scheme was mooted by the Central Government with an aim to increase the enhance [...]

The Rotary International president-elect John Kenny committed at a Friday press conference in Pune that the Rotary-supported projects will receive all the requisite funds, with $200 having been earmarked for polio eradication by the year 2012.
Kenny said that thanks to the support extended by its 1.2 million members and 30,000 clubs in over 200 countries, [...]

Aurangabad, Apr 4 (ANI): Mid day meal schemes introduced by the Congress government for school going children is showing positive results in Aurangabad in Maharashtra.

In Aurangabad alone, the scheme is currently running in about 296 government aided schools.

Almost 24,411 students from the first to the fifth grade and 6025 students from the sixth to the [...]

New Delhi, Feb 23 (ANI): While Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millonaire has received a mixed response of both appreciation and outrage in India for showing the life of slum children, there are many children in this part of the world for whom being a slum kid is just a way of life.

Fifteen-year-old Mehboob has no regret [...]

New Delhi, Feb 17 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram today said that all efforts would be taken to make Delhi Police force among the best forces in the country.

Chidambaram, who was the chief guest at the 62nd Raising Day Parade of the [...]

Mawlynnog (Shillong) Feb.10, (ANI): Resident across the country can take inspiration from the picture perfect village of Mawlynnong, which has recently earned a unique distinction of being the cleanest village in Asia.

Nestled in the pristine hills of Meghalaya, the hamlet has over 80 houses and the villagers, despite their daily schedule of farming and cultivating [...]

Mawlynnong (Shillong), Jan.30 (ANI): Mawlynnong, a small settlement located 75 kilometres from Shillong in Meghalaya, has earned the unique distinction of being declared the ‘cleanest village’ in entire Asia.

The exclusive recognition has been conferred on the hamlet by a team of experts from the famous travel and tourism journal, ‘Discovery India’.

Residents of this beautifully located [...]

London, Jan 29 (ANI): The humble worm could hold the key to wiping out asthma and other conditions which are on the rise due to the modern mania with cleanliness, reckon scientists.

Researchers in Nottingham are currently investigating whether giving hook worms to asthma sufferers can cure their condition.

In developed countries, the worms have been eliminated [...]

London, Jan 6 (ANI): Budget hotels in the UK have been found to be contaminated with blood, mould, urine and even faeces, an investigation has revealed.
In fact, the “most disturbing” discovery was made in a room at the Ibis hotel on Charles Street in Manchester—there the mattress was so badly soiled that the cover had [...]