Air Pollution Now Major Contributor To Stroke, Global Study Finds

Air pollution has become a major contributor to stroke for the first time, with unclean air now blamed for nearly one third of the years of healthy life lost to the conditi...

Taking Care Of Business.

One day in September, in a small town north of Kampala in Uganda, a young woman, pregnant with twins and still weeks away from full term, arrived at the Maria Maternity War...

The Air In Nearly Every Big City In The Developing World Is Unhealthy To Breathe

Four out of five city-dwellers worldwide live in towns with lousy air, raising the odds of premature death from lung or heart ailments, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

How Air Pollution Affects Our Global Health

People have to breath to live. Air pollution can make that a problem.
A new study from the University of British Colombia found that more than 5.5 million people will ...

Maulana Azad Medical College To Submit A Report On Fighting Air Pollution In Delhi

The Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) will soon submit a road map to Delhi government, suggesting measures to improve the unhealthy lungs of Delhiites.
Among the sug...

Her Name Was Gauhar

There is little documentation about India’s great performing artistes and even less about the women.

The tawaifs, despite their talent and refinement had the ...

Karnataka Hamlet Is India?s 1st Smokeless Village

Until last month, Thimmakka had to blow her lungs out even to make a cup of coffee. And this had been her ritual for 40 years now. Not any more. Her kitchen is now fit...

Global Fight Against Tuberculosis Hinges On India Stepping Up Funding: WHO

India is critical to the global fight to end an epidemic of tuberculosis by 2030 and must step up funding to control the disease, the World Health Organisation said, citing...

Titli' To Open Dharamshala International Film Festival

Yash Raj Films’ “Titli” will open the upcoming fourth edition of Dharamashala International Film Festival (DIFF 2015), which begins onNovember 5. The four...