Bhopal, March 20 – Veteran Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh expressed concern on Friday over the increasing cases of skin ailments among children, allegedly due to contaminated water in the Betul district, and called for immediate intervention from the...
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Panaji, March 19 Suspected water contamination has led to 149 cases of diarrhea at a residential complex in Dabolim, South Goa district, within a week, officials said on Thursday.The outbreak was reported at the Prabhu Violetta residential complex, which has nearly 200 apartments.Residents...
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Hamirpur (HP), March 13 Thirty-nine people have fallen ill after jaundice spread in an area near the Hamirpur town of Himachal Pradesh.The 39 people who have fallen ill include 14 students of a government school in Swahal in the Hamirpur district.Local residents are upset over the spread of...
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Hamirpur (HP), March 11 Over two dozen people, including 13 schoolchildren, have contracted jaundice in areas adjoining Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur city, triggering panic among residents and prompting authorities to collect water samples to ascertain the cause, officials said on Wednesday.The...
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New Delhi, March 9 Cases of water contamination have been reported in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh, with hundreds of people falling sick, the Rajya Sabha was told on Monday.In a written reply to a question, Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs, Tokhan Sahu, said...
New Delhi, March 9 As many as 1.61 lakh water samples out of nearly 64 lakh tested across the country in 2025-26 were found to be contaminated, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.In a written reply, Minister of State for Jal Shakti V Somanna said that more than 59 lakh samples were tested...
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Ferozepur, February 27 A 13-year-old girl died in what is suspected to be a jaundice outbreak in Hazara Singh Wala village along the India-Pakistan border in the Mamdot block here, while another 22 children have tested positive, officials said on Friday.The outbreak, suspected to have been...
Amaravati, February 27 YSRCP leader YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday criticized the TDP-led government in Andhra Pradesh, alleging a complete breakdown of public health administration due to "repeated" outbreaks of diarrhea and food poisoning in the state.In a post on X, he said, "Hello...
Bhopal, February 27 – The Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly was adjourned sine die on Friday, ahead of schedule until March 6, bringing a significant Budget Session to a close after weeks of intense debates, opposition protests, and key announcements on development and governance.The session...
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Bhopal, February 19 – At least 32,385 people from various age groups have taken their own lives by suicide across Madhya Pradesh in just two years, the state government said in a written reply submitted on the fourth day of the state Assembly’s budget session on Thursday.The state government’s...
Kolkata, February 17 Several residents, including children and elderly individuals, reportedly fell ill after consuming contaminated drinking water at a housing complex in New Town, prompting the New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) to launch an investigation and set up a medical camp...
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Bhopal, February 17 – The Madhya Pradesh Assembly witnessed a lively debate on the issue of stray dogs in the state capital, Bhopal, on the second day of the ongoing budget session on Tuesday.Congress MLA Atif Aqeel raised the issue during the motion for adjournment, stating that the...
Bhopal, February 17 Congress legislators staged a protest, carrying bottles of "contaminated" water, on the premises of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday, the second day of the budget session, over the recent deaths due to water contamination in Indore.Congress MLAs, led by Leader of the...
Chandigarh, February 16 Local residents in Panicked claimed that more people had died due to liver-related ailments in a village in Haryana's Palwal district, even as authorities put the death toll at seven in the past fortnight, prompting the health department to monitor the situation around...
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palwal district
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watercontamination
Bhopal, February 16 The budget session of the Madhya Pradesh assembly began on Monday with a turbulent start, as the House was adjourned shortly after opposition Congress MLAs raised objections during Governor Mangubhai Patel's address.Leader of the Opposition Umang Singhar stood up and...
Jamnagar (Gujarat), February 11 Five patients hospitalised in Jamnagar have tested positive for cholera, bringing the total number of cases to 20 so far, an official said on Wednesday.The infection is suspected to have spread through contaminated drinking water, linked to leaks in underground...
Jamnagar (Gujarat), February 10 As many as 15 cases of cholera have been reported in the Dhararnagar area of Jamnagar city over the last three days, with officials suspecting that contaminated drinking water led to the outbreak.A notification declaring Dhararnagar and the area within a 2-km...
Indore, February 10 A two-year-old girl and a 76-year-old man who fell ill during a diarrhoea-vomiting outbreak in the city's Bhagirathpura have died in the last two days, with their families claiming that they are the latest victims of the contaminated water crisis in the area.As many as 35...