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 …
Launching the “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” scheme on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi denounced the practice of female foeticide, saying such discrimination reflects “mental illness” and displays a mindset “worse than people in the 18th century”. Modi also hit out at social mores, criticising the common belief that girls are …
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi announced a Rs. 1-crore award on Tuesday for any innovative village attaining a balanced sex ratio. At the inaugural session of a national thematic workshop on woman and child development in Panipat, Ms. Gandhi urged the State governments and the district …
Genomic approaches are revolutionizing the biomedical sciences, providing new ways in which to approach the development of therapeutic practices and the understanding of the causal bases of disease. So, too, do genomics approaches have the potential to transform the way in which ecological studies can be conducted by providing powerful …
VICE PRESIDENT ADDRESSES AT 5TH FOUNDATION DAY AND 2ND CONVOCATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF LIVER AND BILIARY SCIENCES The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari has said that affordability of health care is a serious problem for the vast majority of the population, especially in tertiary care. The …
During a visit to a young mother’s home in rural Shaanxi province in north-western China, Qin Shuhui, a family-planning worker, sets out a row of plastic cups on a bare concrete floor. They are playthings for the woman’s only child, a 27-month-old girl. Addressing the toddler by her nickname, Yingying, …
Calls for withdrawal of order issued by Environment Ministry The Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs says that there is no evidence that the process under the Forest Rights Act (FRA) delays projects, even as there is pressure from the Ministry of Environment to dilute the law and do away with …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the Urban Development Ministry to identify parameters like basic infrastructure, quality of life, and citizen-centric services that would be essential to developing 100 cities under the Smart Cities project. Chairing a high-level meeting with officials on Monday, he said one of the aims of …
Finally, and thankfully, realisation is steadily gaining ground that India needs to do something about its cities.Desi cities have suffered for many decades from misguided prioritisation advised by the leftist and socialist intelligentsia, and followed by Nehruvian politicians. All great civilisations have grown, prospered and died with their cities. Indians …
Panel questions public sector’s capacity to deliver on UHAM Officials and experts working on an outline of the proposed Universal Health Assurance Mission (UHAM) are divided over what role private health care providers and private insurance should play in the big-ticket programme of the Modi government. The Health Ministry submitted …
Imagine this: You are driving on the Athwalines Road and need to answer nature's call. Once you have crossed the traffic junction at Athwa Chowpaty, you won't find a single pay-and-use toilet on the entire two-km stretch till Piplod. A public toilet at Lakeview garden could just skip from one's …
Residents across the city have complained about the lack of clean public toilets and have demanded that the Nashik Municipal Corporation take up the issue. "There are not enough public toilets in the city and it is a problem especially for women," said Vijayalakshmi Manenikar, director of a private school. …
An international body, particularly the World Toilet Organisation, has promoted World Toilet Day for years. In 2013, the UN officially recognised November 19 as the World Toilet Day in a bid to make sanitation for all. The 2014 World Toilet Day campaign will draw attention to dignity and equality issues, …
Developing countries with large youth populations could see their economies soar, provided they invest heavily in young people’s education and health and protect their rights, according to The State of World Population 2014, published today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. The potential economic gains would be realized through …
Diabetes-TB May Soon Be Most Dreaded Combo For the 63 millionand-odd diabetics in India, this is worrying news: It has been proved beyond doubt that diabetes patients are three times more prone to contracting tuberculosis than those with normal sugar levels. Also, diabetes and TB make for a scary mix, …
Unmonitored intake of tuberculosis medicines could lead to acute liver failure. In last year, three cases of acute liver failure due to toxicity caused by tuberculosis medicines were received at the department of surgical gastroenterology and liver transplant in the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here. According to Dr Abhideep Chaudhary, …
There is no quick fix for the 'population time-bomb' and even a world-wide one-child policy like China's or catastrophic mortality events may still result in 5-10 billion people by 2100, according to a new study. Ecologists say that the "virtually locked-in" population growth means the world must focus on policies …
With increasing number of people getting affected by diabetes, the government is considering to conduct free glucose test for the entire population. About 67 million people are estimated to be affected by the deadly disease. “Diabetes has reached epidemic proportion in India and there is a plan to arrange free …
Seventy dengue cases including those from neighbouring Tamil Nadu were reported in the past month in the Indira Gandhi Government Medical College cum Research Institute (IGMCRI). Ten cases including two from Tamil Nadu were undergoing treatment while the rest of them were discharged after treatment, said director (health and family …
An outbreak of Ebola in a densely-populated country like India can create a difficult situation as it poses a serious threat, experts said at a conclave organised here to discuss various infections. “India being a densely-populated country and biomedical waste management being very poor in most Indian hospitals, chances of …
Bedaquiline, the first anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug manufactured in almost 50 years, not only worked on severely ill patients in the city but it did so without affecting their hearts. An article to this effect was published in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease last week, showing “drastic“ improvement …
