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 …
Population has started to swell in Delhi’s suburbs. Gurgaon and Noida (Gautam Buddha Nagar) are among the top five places in India that recorded the highest decadal growth rate in population. While Gurgaon recorded a 74% rise in population between 2001 and 2011, Noida saw a rise by almost 52%, …
The infant mortality rate in Pakistan is very high and there has been no decline in malnutrition rate in children under the age of 5 over the past 30 years, health specialists agreed on Sunday. They were speaking at a dialogue forum on 'Political Parties & The Health of People …
Bijlipur (Punjab): For some time now, the village of Bijlipur has been attracting a slew of local news TV crews and even reporters from Canadian radio stations. The village has something that most of Punjab can’t boast of: a sex ratio in favour of women. The state of Punjab, along …
The India Human Development Report 2011 undertakes a disaggregated analysis of a large set of indicators and is unhesitating in its criticism of our failures in human development outcomes even while recognising that there is empirical evidence of achievement in many dimensions. The main fi ndings of the report point …
With the recent data suggesting a substantial drop in the Total Fertility Rate of India (TFR), the health ministry has decided to lay more emphasis on spacing rather than limiting the children. With this aim in mind, the Union ministry is all set to launch a new birth control intrauterine …
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and all states and Union Territories on a petition claiming that family planning scheme’s key component, sterilisation programme, has become a “failure” in the country with most of the operations proving unsuccessful or health hazards. While issuing notices, a bench …
The 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) was the sixth national-level demographic and health survey designed to provide information on demographic and maternal and child health in Bangladesh. The BDHS included a household survey of ever-married women age 12-49 and ever-married men age 15-54. The BDHS also included a …
The girl child seems to be disappearing from the progressive and urban areas of Gujarat. The urban centres of Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Kutch, Rajkot and Jamnagar districts — that account for 70% of the investments that flowed into Gujarat during the past one decade — have emerged as centres of …
Women and impoverished, illiterate tribals fall prey to Madhya Pradesh’s overweening family planning zeal Birth Control 1951 Family planning as a policy is launched in independent India 1978 Rechristened Family Welfare after the emergency 2000 National Population Policy aims at stable population by 2045 2010 Madhya Pradesh launches targeted family …
Two prestigious projects started with much fanfare by the Punjab government under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) have failed to take off. A community hotline started to report instances of female foeticide and give feedback regarding health services has been lying defunct for over two years now. The service, …
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday said the skewed sex ratio among children in Delhi was a matter of concern and her government was working on improving the gender disparity. Census 2011 reveals that the Capital’s sex ratio among children up to six years has dropped from 868 girls per …
Approves PNDT Act overhaul, n To ban mobile ultrasound machines The government today directed the board of governors of the Medical Council of India (MCI) to cancel licences of all 93 doctors convicted for sex determination of foetuses under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC and PNDT) Act, 1996. …
:United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) would provide Bangladesh with 70 million US dollars for the next five years for the maternal health and family planning activities, an UNFPA official said in Dhaka on Tuesday. "We would give US70m to the Bangladesh government for the next five years (2012-16) …
The preparatory work for Census 2011 began around the end of 2008. The first step was to unambiguously establish and finalize geographical boundaries for all administrative entities, viz., town, wards, districts etc. This "Census of India 2011: Provisional Population Totals" is Paper 1 of 2011 by NCT of Delhi (Series …
An analysis of forty years of global marriage and fertility data shows that the real effect of the decline in fertility in India has been a massive decrease in the number of women in their thirties having children. In western and northern Europe, on the other hand, women are more …
“A child is God’s gift. Nobody must seek to know its sex in advance. It is God’s choice,” observed the Bombay high court while upholding a civic circular disallowing portable sonography machines to be taken to patients’ home. A division bench of justice PB Majmudar and justice Mridula Bhatkar dismissed …
For a country making strides as an emerging economic power, gender inequality remains an area where it compares poorly with the rest of the world. India is placed 129th among 146 countries in terms of GII, or gender inequality index, far behind neighbouring Sri Lanka at 74 and lagging most …
New Delhi: Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh found an occasion for Modi-bashing at the release of UNDP’s Human Development Index report, 2011, on Wednesday, saying there had been “retrogression” in social development indices in Narendra Modi-ruled Gujarat. He also blamed the US for being the biggest contributor to non-sustainability, …
LUCKNOW: A baby girl, who is likely to be born on Sunday (Oct 31) in a village on the city's outskirts is all set to embody the cause of seven lakh girls who go missing in India. To be identified as the seven billionth citizen of the Earth, she would …
