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 amounted to US$202.7 billion. The 2023 earthquake in Türkiye and the Syrian Arab Republic was the most catastrophic event …
Economic inequality is rapidly increasing in the majority of countries. The wealth of the world is divided in two: almost half going to the richest one percent; the other half to the remaining 99 percent. The World Economic Forum has identified this as a major risk to human progress. Extreme …
Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has been monitoring since 1996 on behalf of Ministry of Power the fly ash generation and its utilization at coal/ lignite based thermal power stations in the country. Data on fly ash generation and utilization including modes of utilization is obtained from thermal power stations on …
Achieving global food security is one of the major challenges of the coming decades. In order to tackle future food security challenges we must understand the past. This study presents a historical analysis of global food availability, one of the key elements of food security. By calculating national level dietary …
Farmers' Indebtedness in the State emerged as a central issue. This is because, the problem of indebtedness, damaged the social status of a farmer and triggered to commit suicide. In India, on an average, there is one farmer suicide in every 30 minutes since 2002 [Sainath: 2008a], while in case …
Birth registration is a critical first step towards protecting children throughout their lives. Nearly 230 million children under the age of five in the world have not had their births registered. The report presents latest available data and estimates on birth registration in 161 countries. It highlights global and regional …
Pune: The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), one of the premier research institutes under the ministry of earth sciences (MoES), has developed a new climate model of its own, which aims at providing a fair assessment of the impact of climate change over a period of 100 years on …
This note is in response to the article “Major Insights from India’s Minor Irrigation Censuses: 1986-87 to 2006-07” (EPW, 29 June 2013) by Mukherji, Rawat and Shah. The authors claim to offer an understanding of the evolution of ground water irrigation in India.
Technology and high prices are opening up new oil resources, but this does not mean the world is on the verge of an era of oil abundance, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) 2013 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO-2013). Although rising oil output from North America and …
China, India and the Russian Federation have the highest burden of MDR-TB followed by 24 other countries says this 18th edition of the global report on tuberculosis released by WHO at Geneva. This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in …
The large state-managed and institutionalised provision of water in Delhi and its nearby environs is not free of social and political biases. In the nearby Trans Hindon area, different sections of the population are increasingly witnessing huge disparities in terms of formal and even informal modes of water access. Both …
Sacred groves have survived very long without human interference, and thus are of anthropological, cultural, economic, and ecological significance. In India, these groves are concentrated in the North-East and along the Western Ghats, both globally recognised hotspots of biodiversity. Unfortunately, their size and number are now shrinking at an alarming …
The developing world faces the tough task of producing adequate food to meet the demands of its burgeoning population, as yield levels of major crops have struck a plateau. Food and nutrition security being the major concerns, agricultural R&D in less-developed countries is at the crossroads. The earlier days, when …
The 2013 edition of the Key World Energy Statistics presents the most important figures on production, transformation and consumption of energy in more than 140 countries, with global and regional overviews. Key World Energy Statistics 2013 lists 16 different headline statistics for every country, from total energy supply to electricity …
Ground water levels are being measured four times a year during Pre Monsoon, March/April/May, August, November and January. The ground water regime monitoring was started in the year 1969 by Central Ground Water Board. At present a network of 19427 observation wells located all over the country are being monitored. …
The deadly foot-and-mouth disease, which claimed over 700 cattle this year in the state, is becoming a major cause of worry. The toll shot up from 456 last week to 730, more than the total number of deaths reported in the past seven years. Low subscription of the available vaccination …
Saffolalife is an initiative by Saffola which provides health and nutrition aspects of preventive healthcare and seeks to impart accurate, credible and expert-led information. From free cholesterol checks across 90 cities in India to helping individuals find their heart’s age, Saffolalife’s mission is to keep India’s heart healthy. Every year, …
Renewable energy: Policy and practice - a presentation by Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director-General, CSE at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 being held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.
The disparity in living conditions in the capital was starkly revealed by the data released in the Delhi Statistical Handbook 2013. According to the handbook, over 30 per cent of Delhi’s population lives in one-room dwellings, while three per cent resides in more five-room accommodations. As per the report, 32.2 …
New Delhi: Even as the Delhi government chose to highlight Delhi as a “vibrant city” based on data from the Delhi Statistical Handbook 2013, the report reveals the capital’s dismal performance in curbing infant mortality rate. In 2012, this rate was 23.94 per 1,000 live births—the highest since 2007 when …
The number of registered vehicles in Delhi has increased from 7438155 in 2011-12 to 7774403 in 2012-13 according to this latest handbook which consists of data on various Socioeconomic parameters in respect of NCT of Delhi. Delhi Statistical Hand Book-2013 is the 38th issue being published by Directorate of Economics …
