India registers 'significant progress' in reducing malaria cases: WHOIndia has made significant strides in reducing malaria cases and deaths, exiting the WHO's high-burden group. Community health workers, pri...
20 Dec, 2024, 10.09 PM IST
Sanatana Dharma Row: FIR filed against Udhayanidhi Stalin, Priyank Kharge for 'hurting religious sentiments' in UPDMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin and Priyank Kharge, son of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, have been named in an FIR for allegedly out...
06 Sep, 2023, 05.49 PM IST
India reports 86% fall in cases since 2015, 79% reduction in deaths due to MalariaIndia's budgetary allocation to fight malaria more than doubled between 2017 and 2019 and it was made a notifiable disease in 31 states and...
22 Jun, 2022, 06.01 PM IST
14 million more malaria cases in 2020 worldwide; India sustained reduction in disease burden: WHOThe World Malaria Report 2021, brought out by World Health Organization (WHO), highlighted the havoc malaria continues to wreck on the worl...
08 Dec, 2021, 11.09 PM IST
India only high endemic country to report malaria cases decline of 17.6% in 2019 over 2018: Government"The Annual Parasitic Incidence (API) reduced by 27.6 per cent in 2018 as compared to 2017, and by 18.4 per cent in 2019 as compared to 201...
02 Dec, 2020, 04.21 PM IST
India recorded largest reductions in malaria cases in South-East Asia between 2000-2019: WHOWHO noted the "impressive gains" made by India in the fight against malaria, with reductions in cases and deaths of 18 per cent and 20 per ...
01 Dec, 2020, 10.01 AM IST
IMD to start issuing predictions for major malaria outbreak from next monsoon: Official"The IMD first studied the malaria data it got from Nagpur. This can be applied to other places as well. This can give predictions on large...
07 Nov, 2020, 01.45 PM IST
TB, Malaria & AIDS toll may rise as focus shifts to Covid-19As per mathematical models, each month of lockdown in India could cause an additional 40,685 deaths between 2020 and 2025 due to TB. India ...
13 May, 2020, 02.27 PM IST
- 'Doing science in India troublesome for those over 60' (Book Review)
Book: Doing Science in India: My Second Innings; Author: Dr G. Padmanaban; Publisher: IISc Press; Pages: 124; Price: Rs 799
03 May, 2018, 11.12 AM IST
Malaria to be eliminated from 15 states by 2020: GovernmentBy 2020 we will be able to eliminate malaria from 15 states with an annual parasite incidence (API) of less than one case per thousand popu...
14 May, 2017, 12.48 PM IST
India among 4 nations that account for 81% deaths from p.vivaxThe report said in 2015, an estimated 212 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide a fall of 22 per cent since 2000 and of 14 per cent s...
13 Dec, 2016, 09.29 PM IST
India needs $18 billion to win battle against malariaIndia, with the highest malaria burden outside Africa, will need an investment of $18 billion to achieve its 2030 deadline to eliminate the...
12 Dec, 2016, 10.51 AM IST
Government launches national framework for elimination of malariaAs per the World Malaria report 2015, 14% of the population in India lives in high transmission area of malaria
01 Mar, 2016, 04.26 PM IST
India almost wins battle against malaria, sees steady fall in casesThough there has been a spurt in dengue cases in the past couple of years, the number of malaria cases across the country has actually decl...
22 Nov, 2013, 11.17 AM IST
- India to see decrease in malaria cases: WHO
"India, the country with the highest number of cases in the region, is projected to achieve decreases of 50-75 per cent in malaria case inc...
18 Dec, 2012, 11.29 AM IST
- ‘Climate change will hit 175m kids every year’
A new report suggests that 175 million children will be affected every year by frequent natural disasters caused due to climate change.
07 Dec, 2009, 10.44 AM IST
- WHO agency, Ranbaxy part ways from drug development
WHO agency Medicines for Malaria Venture and Ranbaxy were involved in a four year-long joint development programme for an anti-malarial com...
21 Sep, 2007, 06.50 PM IST