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 …
United Nations notes progress on Millennium Development Goals, but says challenges remain for India India has made notable progress towards realising the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including of reducing poverty by half and securing gender parity, but the achievements across the goals vary, a major UN (United Nations) report has …
Sites in Dwarka, Sultanpuri and Bhalsawa have been earmarked for the rehabilitation scheme, said sources. In a bid to keep one of its major promises to the people of Delhi, the AAP government wants to start work on its slum rehabilitation programme soon, and various government departments have already started …
Gross per capita annual income swells to Rs. 1 lakh. India’s GDP crossed the $2-trillion mark in 2014, according to data released by the World Bank in Washington late on Wednesday. After taking 60 years to reach the $1-trillion mark, India added the next trillion in just seven years. The …
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh's disabled population has witnessed a whopping rise of 48% from 2001 to 2011 with the number of disabled going up from 4.19 lakh to 6.24 lakh during the period. These include 2.31 lakh males and 1.88 lakh females. According to the latest Census Report (2011), number of disabled …
Worryingly, about 86 per cent of rural population and 82 per cent of urban population are still not covered under any health expenditure support scheme. A health survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) shows that more people fall ill in urban areas compared to rural India. During …
MUMBAI: Anticipating a strong protest from the public, especially after the draft development plan disaster, the BMC has decided to overhaul the hawking zone drive. The BMC had mapped out about 60,000 hawking 'patches'—one usually accommodates a single vendor—across the city and is trying to accommodate nearly 90,000 hawkers during …
Since the early 2000s, Latin America and the Caribbean has seen meaningful progress toward universal health coverage with an additional 46 million people in nine countries having at least nominal guarantees of affordable health care, according to a new joint publication by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) …
SHILLONG: The Meghalaya Cabinet on Thursday approved the implementation of the National Food Security Act, 2013 in the State. “The groundwork for implementation of the Act has already started. We will be sending the list of the beneficiaries to the Centre once the exercise of inclusion and exclusion of names …
NASHIK: Three ponds in Trimbakeshwar dating back to the Peshwa era and now full of silt and hyacinth may once again meet the residents' requirement of water. Two trustees of the main Trimbakeshwar temple — Lalita Shinde and Satyapriya Shukla — have adopted Indrakund, Gautam Kund and Bilvateerth and taken …
About one third of Earth's largest groundwater reserves are being rapidly depleted by human consumption, according to a new study led by the University of California, Irvine. This data was used data from Nasa's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. Another study found that little is known of how …
NEW DELHI: Never mind lowering the rate of death from air pollution in India and China. Just keeping those rates steady will demand urgent action to clear the skies, according to a report published on Tuesday. The findings — gleaned from a new global model for how changes in outdoor …
Strong economic and equity market performance helped create nearly a million (920,000) new millionaires globally in 2014, as High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) grew in both number and wealth to 14.6 million and US$56.4 trillion, respectively. This reflects an increase of about seven percent, roughly half the growth rate of …
The Population Institute released a report on how population growth is affecting the development prospects of the world’s most fragile countries. The report, “Demographic Vulnerability: Where population growth poses the greatest challenges,” identifies and ranks the 20 countries facing the greatest demographic challenges with respect to hunger, poverty, water scarcity, …
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 …
In a scenario where the publication and dissemination of statistics is decentralized, both vertically and laterally, there is a demand for availability of data from diverse fields, at one place. Directorate of Economics and Statistics, being the nodal agency at the state level has taken steps to cater to such …
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 …
