Background: Hepatitis A is the most common form of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. The disease closely associated with unsafe water or food, inadequate sanitation and poor personal hygiene. Objectives: An epidemiological investigation was carried out to investigate outbreak, describe features recommend measures for control. case sheet prepared, definition formulated. Result: 82 cases confirmed...

The way you grow up in India, it has long been known, depends on where you grow up. The average child growing up in Orissa in the 1980s was seven times more likely to die in infancy than his or her equivalent in Kerala. His or her mother is four and half times more likely to die in giving birth if she were in Assam than she would be had she been in Kerala? And if she happens to be a girl and bo...

The way you grow up in India, it has long been known, depends on where you grow up. The average child growing up in Orissa in the 1980s was seven times more likely to die in infancy than his or her equivalent in Kerala. His or her mother is four and half times more likely to die in giving birth if she were in Assam than she would be had she been in Kerala. And if she happens to be a girl and bo...

The volume reviewed here is part of a series on the history of Asian-European interactions and a result of the highly successful TANAP (Towards a New Age of Partnership) program that was carried out at Leiden University, the Netherlands, from 2001 to 2006 by a score of young Asian, South African, and European scholars. Seeking to better understand the Asian-European interactions in early modern...

Isachne veldkampii var. malabarica, a new variety is described from the wetlands of Kasaragod, Kerala. It can be distinguished Bhat & Nagendran by presence two types leaves - ligulate and non-ligulate,1–4 spikelets in each panicle branch 2 florets which are either both pistillate, bisexual or upper pistillate lower bisexual. Description along with figures, illustrations distribution map pro...

Government Departments are increasingly using websites as a tool to reach out to the citizens. Through Government websites, the Government can improve the standard of information and ensure maximum reach of government information and services to citizens through different government services published on the web. The objective of Government web services is to reach to all sections of society wi...