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
Recent surveys conducted in various municipal wards of the city have brought to light the abysmal condition of public toilets intended for women. Over 35 city-based NGOs across Mumbai have been crusading
BHUBANESWAR: Baunsipada is like any other village in remote Khairiput block of Malkangiri district inhabited by Bondas, the primitive tribal group (PTG). Home to just 26 Bonda families, all that the village
The city government partially blamed inadequate health infrastructure in neighbouring states for the decline in child sex ratio — number of girls against per thousand boys — in Delhi. Delhi women and child welfare minister Kiran Walia on Monday said that lack of proper medical infrastructure in neighbouring states forces pregnant women there to come to Delhi for delivery and when a baby dies during or after delivery, it reflects in Delhi statistics.
The potential of biodiversity to increase and sustain nutrition security is increasingly recognized by the international research community. To date however, dietary assessment studies that have assessed
Kerala will have 450 functional e-toilets by the end of this fiscal, becoming the first state in India with Connected Toilet Infrastructure which would be on a par with health and hygiene standards of developed countries. An e-toilet has an automated door opening, power flushing, automatic closet washing and sterilisation and automatic platform-cleaning mechanism -- all backed by SMS alerts to inform a control room about the status of water tank and biogas plant in the event of any errors or failures.
Ahmedabad: Two cities of Gujarat, both industrial hubs, top the list of cities with lowest sex ratio in India. Vapi, the industrial town in south Gujarat, has got the lowest sex ratio in the country with
Single-premium plan likely to be only for women initially; Centre, states to share premium for economically weaker sections. Customers may soon get health, insurance and pension covers, as well as a scholarship
Corporators present at the ‘My Locality My Voice’ event at SPN Doshi Women’s College were stunned when young women voters throw them a googly: Why did women have to pay for using public toilets while men
While the focus during the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon is on the runners, the lack of toilets remains a serious concern. "There are thousands of women runners and very few toilets," said Tina Varghese,
Exposure to nitrogen oxides in air causes increased risk of type 2 diabetes and hypertension in African-American women, a new study has revealed. Researchers from the Slone Epidemiology Centre (SEC)