The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
WITH his newborn in his arms, 30-year-old Pooranmal stands helplessly outside Jaipur's J K Loan Hospital. The doctors have refused to operate upon his son. "There is no hope. They say my child is not going to live for long,' he says. The child was born on February 25, 2000, …
India is fast becoming the land of superlatives. For all the wrong reasons, of course. Be it August 15, 1999 (UN prediction), or May 11, 2000 (government of India estimates), the nation has reached the inevitable mark. At the time of Independence, the country's population was as low as 350 …
THE mythical clock has struck. A billion and ticking at the rate of 29 per minute, 1790 per hour... The rise in human numbers is accompanied by a host of problems. Knowledge of the carrying capacity of India's lands is extremely limited. There is no worthwhile study covering even the …
with a confused leadership providing no able direction, frustration and alarm is growing at the rampant spread of aids throughout South Africa. And the announcement by five of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies offering to slash prices of hiv drugs in developing countries has done little to mitigate the suffering. …
By October 12 the world will be home to six billion people, according to the United Nations World Population Report for 1999 titled 6 billion: A Time for Choices . By 2050 this figure will reach the 8.9 billion mark, if women's education and environmental resource management continue to be …
school children in Kansas in the us, will be taught evolution as written in the Bible and not according to the theory propounded by Charles Darwin. The war of words, between supporters of science-based and faith-based education, ended when the Kansas school board voted against the teaching of Darwin's theory …
In the beginning there was darkness. All enveloping. Then the Kansas Board of Education in the us finally saw the light. Evolution or rather the teaching of it had to go. The science of evolution had never been proven in a laboratory. Therefore, it must be dropped from the curriculum. …
AIDS campaigners in Pakistan fear their struggle to educate fellow country people about the deadly disease faces new difficulties from radical clerics, now that the country moving towards "Islamisation'. Even now, it is difficult to spread awareness about AIDS and the situation may worsen as mullahs (clergy) get more influential, …
South Asian environmental experts and officials met in Nepal to discuss ways for regional cooperation to save the endangered tiger. Over 60 representatives from Bhutan, Nepal, India, Burma and Bangladesh as well as Worldwide Fund for Nature, participated in the three-day conference held in Sauraha, 145 km south of capital …
in the field of science, the next century would belong to biology, say scientists attending the 86th Indian Science Congress Association ( isca), held in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, from January 3-7. They discussed issues that could possibly play a crucial role in shaping India's next millennium. The theme of the …
LIKE the blades of grass which grew silently to clothe the brown hills of Jhabua, the hold of the Congress party strengthened unnoticed in the state of Madhya Pradesh (MP). Even as the grass imparted strength to the denuded slopes, so did the Congress grow in strength. The party in …
LEARNING, by video conferencing can be just as effective as attending classes. Researchers at California's Silicon Valley, the fabled birthground of some of the world's top software, have compared the examination performance of students who met face-to-face with those who met over their video monitors. There were no differences between …
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THE computer scores another point. Distance learning became possible years ago with the advent of the World Wide Web. Now, us software experts have taken "distance learning" a step further. Deaf children in the US will soon be able to learn written English with the help of an Internet program …
The International Seabed Authority (ISA), the United Nations' agency responsible for administering the Law of Sea Treaty, has started discussions on a code to govern the recovery of minerals from the international seabed. Delegates from 138 countries are meeting at the ISA's headquarters in Jamaica over the next three weeks, …
The success story of education in Arunachal Pradesh has been narrated by Purer Haimendorf. The socio-economic and political strength which Arunachal tribes enjoy has no doubt been the rock on which the edifice was founded and on which it subsequently grew. The strategy they adopted was based on the residential …
