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
Women
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Women SHGs run mid-day meal schemes in Orissa schools
School teachers in many parts of the country find the government
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Over 50 PMC women staffers are anaemic
Health officials were in for a shock when a random haemoglobin level check showed just how anaemic women were in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). Fifty-five of the 215 Class II and III women employees had haemoglobin levels under 10 gm while seven women had very low haemoglobin levels.
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Sundarighat proposed as new landfill site
- Poor and excluded communities, especially women, are most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change, said a minister on Tuesday. Inaugurating a two-day national seminar titled "Women, Science and Technology and Climate Change", Hisila Yami, minister for Physical Planning and Works said that due to poverty and lack of access to adaptive measures against natural disasters, women are highly affected by impacts of climate change.
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Fat of the matter
Tall, strapping and statuesque, Shivalli M. Chouhan, 34, doesn't look fat, but she insists she is. "It's not my self-image. It's what others tell me," smiles the civil servant with the Indian Defence Accounts Service. It's what her teacher had said long back when she was chosen for a television dance show in school. It's what some of her batchmates had whispered when she won those beauty contests in college and university. Resentful of the constant pressure of other people's unending desire for her to be thin she decided to excel in everything else but looks.
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Indigenous institutions for natural resource management: Potential and threats
Indigenous institutions have positive capabilities in natural resource management which have to be considered along with the negative aspects of tradition and prejudice. A context specific assessment of the powers to be given to such institutions must therefore be done.
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Prenatal exposure to tetrachloroethylene-contaminated drinking water and the risk of adverse birth outcomes
In this retrospective cohort study the authors examined whether PCE (Prenatal Exposure to Tetrachloroethylene) contamination of public drinking-water supplies in Massachusetts influenced the birth weight and gestational duration of children whose mothers were exposed before the child's delivery.
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Associations of bone mineral density and lead levels in blood, tibia, and patella in urban-dwelling women
The objective of this study was to evaluate the relations between bone mineral density (BMD) and lead in blood, tibia, and patella and to investigate how BMD modifies these lead biomarkers in older women.
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Bone resorption and environmental exposure to cadmium in women: A population study
Environmental exposure to cadmium decreases bone density indirectly through hypercalciuria resulting from renal tubular dysfunction. The researchers sought evidence for a direct osteotoxic effect of cadmium in women.
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Issues in adoption of hill agriculture technologies
Green revolution in India has bypassed the remote places like hills. Farmers who are struggling for survival under unfavorable conditions like hills need focus. In Uttarakhand, only 13.62 per cent is the net cultivated area. Agriculture in Uttarakhand is primarily confined to lower and mid hill regions and is basically subsistence in nature.
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Viable entrepreneurial trades of women in agriculture: Karnataka
The study focuses on the importance of the viable entrepreneurial activities for the rural farm women, employment and income issues, family and governmental support, factors, as necessary condition for successful operation and sustenance of the women entrepreneurial trades, in two diverse districts of the State of Karnataka, to further economic empowerment of rural women.