Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades …
Enthused by the completion of a project worth Rs 1,280 crore six months before schedule, the World Bank has sanctioned another Rs 2,200 crore rural water supply and sanitation project for Punjab. Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra said that this project would give impetus to the ongoing …
Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5. It is the first study to examine the effect of soot particles in …
NEW DELHI: Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu today called for concerted efforts across the world to address the issue of climate change. "The umbrella issue of climate change is far more important because it encompasses all aspects of environment and the world as a whole must take steps to address it," …
For sustaining life on the planet, Indian farmers will have to find sustainable ways to optimally use water to grow more farm produce in future Water is the most critical ingredient for sustaining life. A global scarcity of this vital resource and extreme climate change could result in increased skirmishes …
Kohima: The Mission Director of the National Health Mission (NHM) in Nagaland Sukhato A Sema has informed that the state of Nagaland, with 57 per cent of tobacco users, is the second highest consumer of tobacco in the country. According to an official report on Sunday, Dr Sema was speaking …
Incidence of new cases in India half the global figure The incidence of cancer has grown over the last decade in India although the rate of mortality has fallen, new data shows. Breast cancer is the fastest growing in terms of incidence for women and kills the most, and prostate …
Deaths In India From The Disease Have Gone Up By 60% Cancer has emerged as the second-leading cause of death globally after cardiovascular diseases.Proportion of deaths due to cancer around the world increased from 12% in 1990 to 15% in 2013 while the number of new cases almost doubled in …
Shimla’s 36-year-long wait for a development plan may finally end with the state government initiating the process for getting a document prepared which will regulate the haphazard growth of the town and have components like satellite township and decongestion plan. The growth of the town, facing serious traffic, civic and …
The age adjusted incidence rate of pharyngeal cancers in females of Kamrup-urban area is highest in the world and age adjusted incidence of gall bladder cancer in females of Kamrup-urban is second highest in the world, next only to Chile in South America. The incidence of gall bladder cancer in …
State government abandons plan to divert water from the Chenab river Jammu is heading for a major water crisis in the coming years as the PDP-BJP government has almost abandoned the plan to divert water from the Chenab to meet the future demands of the expanding city. Sources said the …
For the first time, trends point to suburbanisation The city’s population grew by a staggering 44.58 per cent over the last decade (2001–11), powered by the unprecedented suburban growth. In contrast, an analysis of the 2001 and 2011 Census data for the city, throws up an interesting trend of 30 …
Around 11% of the people in Delhi are suffering from asthma the government said on Tuesday while attributing its causes to smoking and air pollution. "As per a survey conducted by the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi, which covered 5,900 adults belonging to urban, rural and slum population in Delhi, …
As the world's biggest consumer of sugar, India would always have been a difficult market to crack for substitute sweeteners. But it did seem that health concerns — diabetes and obesity are rapidly spreading among the population — might put a dent in that sweet tooth. Seeing the number of …
Riding on the success of ensuring pure drinking water to 2500-odd residents of Chitlapakkam Town Panchayat in Kancheepuram district, the Directorate of Town Panchayats has decided to extend its arms to other areas by installing more such reverse osmosis plants across the State. Joint Director of Town Panchayats, S.M. Malaiaman …
The weather office predicted that the southwest monsoon will be below normal for the second year in a row in 2015 and indicated that the disruptive El Nino phenomenon could make things worse for India's largely rain-fed farms, raising the spectre of accelerating inflation. "Monsoon rainfall is likely to be …
Five-hundred-and-thirty-six million litres a day (mld) drinking water is what the city will need in the next couple of decades. This estimation has come out in study conducted to arrive at the needs for implementing the Coimbatore Corporation’s Pilloor III drinking water supply scheme. The corporation will draw the water …
Most of the people forced by lack of toilet space or water in households to relieve themselves in the open know that it is unhygienic for them as well as others. A new study has brought out another fact. Open defecation can be a source of psychosocial stress, too. Women …
According to health experts, hypertension and diabetes make a lethal combo of health disorders. A recent study found that 45 per cent of population in metro cities, including the national capital, suffers from high blood pressure and 20 per cent population suffers from a combination of diabetes and hypertension, also …
Twenty persons have been killed and around 300 injured during the incidents of human animal conflict in Jammu and Kashmir in the past one year. The officials at wildlife department revealed that though there had been a steep increase in man- animal encounters during past several years yet such incidents …
KOLKATA: Does the role of tobacco in causing cancer needs further scrutiny? BJP MP Dilip Gandhi's observation in Parliament last week, seeking a medical board to examine the health effects of tobacco on the Indian population before going ahead with the decision of mandating pictorial warnings on tobacco products, has …
