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The headmistress of a government primary school in the hamlet of Doni Thanda in Gadag district has been carrying 18 litres of purified water over 22 kms to cook the mid-day meal and provide students with drinking water, bearing the entire cost from her own pocket as the high fluoride content in the village water […]

Minty-fresh it may well taste, but there’s a reason you don’t swallow your fluoride toothpaste. If consumed at more than 1.5 milligram per litre, the mineral poses serious health hazards. But in the Mahbubnagar district, just south of Hyderabad, fluoride contamination has been a persistent problem and its cause cannot be linked to an affinity […]

That is the question because it has been tried before. Today The Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation Programme for Adolescents is all set to be launched with much fanfare including full-page ads in major broadsheet papers but the question is – will it work this time? Child malnutrition is currently one of India’s biggest health […]

GURGAON: With spurt in water-borne diseases being reported every day, experts believe the level of contamination in Millennium City’s water has reached alarming levels and is not fit for drinking. In South Delhi, bordering Gurgaon, one person died and more than three dozen were hospitalized on Wednesday after they reportedly consumed contaminated water. The incident […]

BHOPAL: Nawab Singh Rawat, 47, of Hateda a non-descript village of Shivpuri district hails from a well to do family and is healthy- except that like most other youths from the village he too has failed to get a match and continues to be a forced bachelor. The village has about 100 bachelors out of […]

Concerned at increasing cases of fluorosis, the Union government has asked the States to provide alternative source of drinking water to the people in areas with high concentration of fluorosis… Fluorosis in its severe form (skeletal fluorosis) is a crippling disorder that occurs due to excess intake of fluoride, mainly through drinking water. The effects, […]

Alappuzha: Even though dental fluorosis remains a major health problem in the district, the authorities have not implemented any of the suggestions that experts have made. The percentage of fluorosis incidence among children in the district is 40 currently while it was 35.6 in 1997. The overall prevalence of dental fluorosis in the district is 40 […]

National award winning director Narasimha Nandi is directing a movie titled ‘Dakshina Madhya Bharatha Jattu’. K.Suresh Babu, who has  produced films like ‘Naku O Lover Undhi’ in Sri SivaParvathi combines banner, is the producer of this movie. He says, ” The shooting of the movie has completed and the post-production work of the film is […]

ALLAHABAD: The district authorities have dispatched over 1,000 field testing kits and study materials to 20 blocks to check water quality in 1,425 villages. The district aims to check areas where ground water contains arsenic or fluoride substances. District Development Officer (DDO) RC Pandey told TOI “after dispatching water field testing kits and holding subsequent […]

A drinking water supply project, conceived nearly 50 years ago for water-starved and fluoride-hit people of Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri districts in north-western belt, is to become a reality on Wednesday when Chief Minister Jayalalithaa formally commissions through video-conferencing. The project, now called Hogenakkal Water Supply and Fluorosis Mitigation Project, was originally mooted when K. Kamaraj […]