Even petrol and diesel has GST," she added. She remembered her time while staying in Seemapuri herself, claiming that she used to work in an NGO near a leprosy colony, seeing how people struggled at ...

When, in 1873, an obscure young Belgian missionary priest named Father Damien begged the Catholic Prefect Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands to send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of ...

Leprosy, commonly known as Hansen's sickness, is a condition that has existed for thousands of years. Despite great attempts to eradicate leprosy, the disease continues to harm 250,000 new people ...

After eight years of efforts to get the name of their colony changed, residents of Pakistan Colony in Payakapuram of Vijayawada finally heave a sigh of relief as NTR district Collector G.

24 dogs, 45 cats, 12 reptiles, and seven mice were rescued from a home in The Colony on Tuesday. 22 animals didn’t make it out alive. Police said the "animal hoarding" investigation began with ...

The Spokesman of the Ministry of Health and Population Hossam Abdel Ghaffar denied reports that the ministry had shut down Egypt’s leprosy colony to offer its land for sale to investors.

Leprosy cases are on the rise in central Florida, and have possibly reached endemic status, according to a report published this month in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal (EID). The number ...

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