JAIPUR: The facilities for treatment of silicosis will be expanded in the state. Pneumoconiosis boards which were set up only in the districts with government-run medical colleges, including Jaipur, ...

Along a 20 km stretch on the Jaipur-Agra highway in Rajasthan is a cluster of factories where sandstone is carved into garden lamps, railings, screens and gazebos. Starting at Sikandra village in ...

Mining officials are scrambling to determine the extent of the re-emergence of silicosis in the coal industry amid warnings that workers are still being exposed to potentially deadly dust. CFMEU ...

A person with pneumoconiosis initially may not show any symptoms. Subsequently, he/she develop symptoms due to due to deceased oxygen circulating in the blood, respiratory and heart failure. The ...

Akki Bai, 37, who lives in Kharapalli, a small village of Sirohi district in Rajasthan, lost her husband Bhana Ram in May, this year. Bhana, 42, who cut sandstone in a factory in the nearby town of ...

Karauli, Aug 17: For 10 years, Ghanshyam underwent treatment for tuberculosis (TB) as his persistent coughing and chest pain refused to go away. But in 2011, the stone quarry worker was told that he ...

It was a day of discussion on health at the Jawab Do dharna on Tuesday. Small groups of people had arrived from many of the 20 districts in the state where silicosis is rampant, to share their ...