India-Nepal

4. April 2011 | 14:10

Nepal ignores India’s cancer concerns over betel nut

While pressing for trade concessions from its largest business partner India, Nepal, however, has been stolidly ignoring New Delhi’s growing health concerns with government and customs officials working in cahoots to flood India with the carcinogenic betel nut. (News Source: Gulf Times - 23:34:09)

Uttar Pradesh plans development of areas bordering Nepal

The Uttar Pradesh government Tuesday announced a Rs.45-crore package to develop villages and towns within the 10-km of the India-Nepal border. (News Source: Calcutta News - 14:22:34)

Lanka to host South Asian Conference on sanitation

Water Supply and Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardana said that Sri Lanka has good sanitation facilities in comparison to other South Asian countries. Even though around 45 percent Sri Lankans are affected by water borne diseases. (News Source: Daily News - 19:45:58)

Nepal ignores India’s cancer concerns over betel nut

Kathmandu, April 2 : While pressing for trade concessions from its largest business partner India, Nepal, however, has been stolidly ignoring New Delhi’s growing health concerns with government and customs officials working in cahoots to flood India with the carcinogenic betel nut. (News Source: New Kerala - 08:09:47)

How Warming May Make Killer Diseases Worse

From recent floods in India, Nepal and Bangladesh that have caused widespread waterborne disease that the UN attributes to global warming to malaria-infected mosquitoes migrating to increasingly high elevations in the mountains of Africa, climate change’s effects on health already are being felt around the globe. (News Source: ABC News - 00:32:03)

W5: A Journey into the World of Child Haven

W5 profiles a Canadian couple who have built a ‘Child Haven’ in South Asia for thousands of children. An up-close look at the remarkable day-to-day operations of this Canadian charity. (News Source: CTV.ca - 23:10:09)

College students work at St. Mike’s

Volunteers from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., who are helping in the classroom at St. Michael Indian School pose with students including, left to right, Seth Tobolsky, Tarjinder Singh, Sarah Bender, Uttara Partap, Amanda Washington and Taida Smailhodzic. (News Source: Navajo Times - 14:49:00)

South Asians call for equitable sanitation programmes

COLOMBO: Civil society members at an international consultative meeting, just ahead of the fourth South Asian Conference, on Sanitation (SACOSAN), in Sri Lanka, called upon their respective governments to hammer out viably equitable and inclusive sanitation and hygiene programmes. (News Source: Dawn - 08:40:09)

HIV prevention, treatment must be expanded in Asia-Pacific, delegates at regional meeting say

More needs to be done to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and increase access to treatments for patients living with the disease, according to representatives from 24 Asia-Pacific countries attending a regional United Nations meeting in Bangkok this week, VOA News reports. (News Source: News-Medical-Net - 10:12:23)

Chinese envoy meets arrested countrymen

LUCKNOW: Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan on Tuesday met Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Karamveer Singh in connection with the detention of three Chinese, including a woman, in the jail here. (News Source: The Hindu - 20:00:26)

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