The jingle of 'healthy Haryana' is losing sheen. As per data released by the Haryana Aids Control Society, people suffering from STD, including women, who tested positive for HIV are largely from Bhiwani, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Jhajjar and Ambala districts. People are falling prey to the HIV largely due to drug addiction, multiple use of needles and sexually transmitted disease (STD) infection. However, more cases of HIV positive due to multiple use of...
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More and more countries using graphic anti-smoking labelling, UN reports
-The United Nations About a billion people, if they wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes, are facing some pretty off-putting and sometimes gruesome graphics on the package cover, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, marking the success of its warning CAMPAign. In its third annual report on the global tobacco epidemic, launched today in Montevideo, Uruguay, the agency said more than one billion people in 19 countries...
More »World Population to Hit Seven Billion by October by Thalif Deen
The United Nations commemorates World Population Day next week against the backdrop of an upcoming landmark event: global population hitting the seven billion mark by late October this year. According to current projections, and with some of the world's poorest nations doubling their populations in the next decade, the second milestone will be in 2025: an eight billion population over the next 14 years. Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the U.N....
More »SC scraps G Noida land acquisition by Bhadra Sinha
A day after it accused states of running a sinister CAMPAign to "grab" the land of poor farmers, the Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a big blow to the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh by quashing a 2007 notification to acquire 156.3 hectares of land in Greater Noida. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and AK Ganguly also imposed a Rs 10 lakh fine on the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority...
More »Aruna Roy cautions against haste in passage of Lokpal Bill by Vidya Subrahmaniam
NCPRI proposes bringing PM under Lokpal, suggests basket of anti-corruption measures The National CAMPAign for People's Right to Information (NCPRI) has proposed bringing the Prime Minister under the Lokpal with the safeguard that the executive head can only be investigated on the recommendation of the full benches of the Lokpal and the Supreme Court. At a consultative meeting held here on Friday, the NCPRI, which has two National Advisory Council members, Aruna...
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