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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Sex determination and stress
Women who endure a very stressful event in their families around the time of conception have an increased chance of giving birth to a baby girl. Dorthe Hansen and colleagues at the John F Kennedy
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Daddy s girl
Young girls with close relationships with their fathers may enter puberty later than girls with distant or non-existent relationships with their father. According to Bruce Ellis of the University of
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Oily mess
The US environment protection agency pulls up polluting oil companies
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Women and forests
A study probes the role of women in afforestation programmes
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UNITED NATIONS
A handful of infectious diseases are responsible for 90 per cent of the deaths throughout the world, a study of the World Health Organi sation (who) said recently. No more than six deadly
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The female gaze
Women's liking for men
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Teeming billions
The world population will touch six billion this month<br>
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Pregnancy and longevity
Women's longevity may depend on the age at which they get pregnant, say Rudi Westendorp of the Netherlands and Thomas Kirkwood of the UK. Those who have their first pregnancy at a late age seem to
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The lot of a woman
The fairer sex has not benefitted as much as men from socio economic progress
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We are not afraid to lay down more lives for our rights
Chilika, Asia s largest brackish water lake in Orissa, is in the midst of a controversy that refuses to die. At stake is the livelihood of hundreds of fisherfolk and the lake itself. The fisherfolk have launched a movement to fight for their rights. Not