World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
The expert committee for Evolving a Composite Development Index of States—headed by Raghuram G Rajan, governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the former Chief Economic Advisor submitted this report to the government. It recommends a new mechanism for allocation on the basis of composite development index for states. According to this, Odisha and Bihar are the least developed states.
India’s largest study on risk factors precipitating heart disease conducted by Saffola found that more than 70% of 1.86 lakh urban Indian respondents are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.
If all women in India had completed secondary education, the under-five mortality rate would be 61 per cent lower, UNESCO has said. India and Nigeria account for more than a third of child deaths worldwide. If all women in both countries had completed secondary education, the under-five mortality rate would have been 61 per cent lower in India and 43 per cent lesser in Nigeria, saving 1.35 million children’s lives.
5,000 were working as labourers for companies that exported sand’. Around 400 fishermen, including 75 women, from the coastal hamlets of the district submitted a petition to District Revenue Officer P.
More than half of the people in the world rely on coal, wood, crop wastes or dung for their energy needs, according to the World Health Organization. Three billion people in developing nations depend on
Panic has gripped Dorsi and adjoining villages in the Barnoti block of Kathua district as nearly 60 per cent population of the village, including women and children, have fallen ill due to a mysterious
After taking a year to decide which department will parent the Mission Balam Sukham (Gujarat Nutrition Mission) and finally giving the task to a reluctant women and child development department, the government
An Act to provide for food and nutritional security in human life cycle approach, by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity and
Expressing surprise on the absence of latest official data on malnutrition, a Parliamentary panel has asked the government to come up with a time-bound action plan to reduce under-nutrition and ensure
The chief minister’s flagship programme of Balam Sukham Mission that was launched with much fanfare before the assembly polls last year, stands caught in the inter-departmental crossfire. Launched to address