2023 disasters in numbers
In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses
In 2023, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded a total of 399 disasters related to natural hazards. These events resulted in 86,473 fatalities and affected 93.1 million people. The economic losses
This vision document for Uttarakhand is the result of a CII initiative. “India@75: The Emerging Agenda ” inspired by Prof. C.K.Prahalad, eminent management guru on the global scene . In the wake of robust
Nearly 10 million more people infected with the AIDS virus now meet medical standards for receiving HIV drugs, according to revised U.N. guidelines released on Sunday, which experts say could avert 6.5 million deaths or new infections by 2025. But achieving this goal will be a challenge, as it will add some $2 billion a year to the bill to fight the 32-year AIDS epidemic, they acknowledged.
This annual report published by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) presents a comprehensive picture of the growth of the electricity sector, in terms of addition of generation capacity by various sectors in different categories, across the twelve plans period. It shows that the private sector accelerated its growth rate and contributed quite significantly to generation capacity addition, in the last few years.
The Andhra Pradesh State of Forest Report gives a detailed view of the health of the notified Forests in the State on Annual basis. State of Forest Report 2013 is the fourth report in the series. It gives
Based on data from the four minor irrigation censuses conducted by the Ministry of Water Resources between 1986-87 and 2006-07, this paper points out that India's groundwater sector has slowed down since
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), as a part of its 68th round survey programme during the period July 2011 - June 2012, carried out an all-India household survey on the subject of employment and
The FAO Statistical Yearbook is divided into four thematic parts: Part 1 - The setting measures the state of the agricultural resource base by assessing the supply of land, labour, capital and inputs,
Rajahmundry: Urbanisation and migration of wage seekers is the cause of the sharp rise in slums in the city. In East Godavari, both the commercial city Rajahmundry and port city Kakinada are plagued with increasing slums in the last decade. As per Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA) statistics gathered by East Godavari unit, 92 slums exist in Rajahmundry and 98 in Kakinada.
The 2012 Revision of World Population Prospects represents the latest global demographic estimates and projections prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of
BHOPAL: The population of Madhya Pradesh has increased by over a crore in the last 10 years. Currently at 7.2 crore, the population density of the state is about 230 per sq km which is much less than the