Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
KOCHI: For every 100 men, there are 109 women in Kerala, one of the few places in the world where women outnumber men with such a wide margin. According to Census 2011, whose provisional figures were released by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India in New Delhi on …
Minister Krishna Tirath stresses the need for proper implementation of women and child development schemes The lowest-ever child sex ratio of 914 overshadowed an increase in the overall sex ratio, which is now 940
Rise of 181 million in 10 years; decline in child sex ratio. India's population has jumped to 1.21 billion, an increase of more than 181 million during 2001-11, according to provisional data of Census 2011 released on Thursday. Though the population is almost equal to the combined population of the …
Beijing couples who give birth to a second child will now be charged fines only if both the mother is younger than 28 years and the second child is born within four years after the first Beijing, March 31: Beijing has become the second city in China after Shanghai to …
After taking advantage of the various accomplishments of the state to rake up praise for themselves, ministers should now hide their faces in shame. Provisional population figures of Census 2011 reveal Maharashtra
The gram panchayat of Dulat village in this district has been awarded a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh for showing the best results in correcting the skewed gender ratio (34 girls against 16 boys) in 2009. Deputy Commissioner Vijay Singh Dahiya handed over the cheque to village sarpanch Nirmal …
Amid claims that there is a drastic improvement in the sex ratio profile of Punjab, the unpalatable truth is that preference among couples of not having children once they have a son is the highest in the country. This has established that a desire for a son is as desperate …
JAIPUR: Experts feel high infant mortality rate (IMR) in Rajasthan should be viewed in the context of the skewed sex ratio. According to the latest IMR report, infant mortality in the state came down by three points in 2009 compared to the previous year but it is still high with …
Landmark May Be Reached By November In the midst of all the handwringing over population explosion, the Indian government might miss preparing for a global record-setting event
New Delhi: India will miss its target of reaching population stabilization by 2045 with the Union health ministry now looking at 2060 as a plausible target. India had set itself the goal of attaining replacement levels of fertility
Issues of gender inequity remain in India and impede the nation's public health and development. Any effort toward universal health care in India must at inception be aligned with the broader goals of improving the status of women and girls in the country, or be destined to fail.
Bhopal: Better results have been yielded after declaration of 2010-11 as the Family Planning Year and the Chief Minister, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan giving top priority to it. It has been possible for the first time in 21 years that 3 lakh 72 thousand people have adopted family planning programme …
THE Union health ministry is again considering introducing injectable contraceptives in the family planning programme. The ministry has asked its Drug Technical Advisory Body (DTAB) to allow use of Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (DMPA) in the programme. An earlier attempt to introduce it was withdrawn in 1995 after Supreme Court’s intervention. …
Exposure to Endosulfan could lead to male infertility, says a study conducted by a doctor in Coimbatore even as reports from Kasaragod indicate that the Kerala Government
MUMBAI:The state government is formulating a scheme for cash incentives to citizens to combat female infanticide. Under the scheme, planned by the state ministry of women and child development, families with girl children will be given incentives on fulfilling certain conditions, including school enrollment and delay in marriage of the …
Shastry V. Mallady MADURAI: The participation of men in family planning is very negligible in Tamil Nadu. As per the latest sterilisation statistics brought out by the Directorate of Family Welfare, male sterilisation accounted for about 0.7 per cent of the total 1,98,356 family planning operations (for male and female) …
Guwahati, Nov. 26: Assam has extended a helping hand to Meghalaya to arrest the population explosion in the neighbouring state. Meghalaya has recorded the highest population growth among the northeastern states with a decadal growth rate of 30.65 per cent against the national average of 21.54 per cent. Its fertility …
Delhi, Bihar And Kerala Among Lowest Users, Finds Survey Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: When it comes to popping oral birth control pills, women from Rajasthan seem to be showing the way. In a state-wise analysis of oral pill users, conducted by the Union health ministry, the desert state …
