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 …
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 …
Proportion of children underweight fell from 45.1 % in 2005-06 to 30.1 % in 2013-14 The proportion of underweight children in India might have declined from 45.1 per cent in 2005-06 to a historic low of 30.7 per cent last year, new provisional data from a survey conducted by the …
The latest Global Hunger Index report has revealed that the number of hungry people has declined in India with its score improving to 55th position in 2014 due to progress made in addressing underweight in children. Interestingly, India has performed better than its south Asian neighbours Pakistan (57) and Bangladesh …
The government on Thursday deferred the country-wide rollout of the National Food Security Act, 2013, by another six months, to the first week of April 2015, because of states’ inability to create requisite infrastructure and identify beneficiaries. This is the second time the government has deferred the pan-India roll-out of …
World Bank-IMF study for 2011, however, says the pace of reduction in absolute poverty has been substantial; report stresses skills training for youth as key India was home to about a third of the world's poor in 2011, according to a progress report on various social indicators from the World …
PANAJI: The directorate of health services has succeeded in controlling spread of malaria to some extent, but the mosquitoes are still a threat with as many as 121 cases of dengue reported till August this year. Recorded over eight months, this figure is comparatively lesser than last year's 198 cases, …
The Statistical Yearbook of Bhutan 2014 is the thirty second edition of an annual series published by the National Statistics Bureau, Royal Government of Bhutan. It provides a comprehensive and systematic current statistical information of the key socio-demographic and economic characteristics of Bhutan. Through this publication, users will be able …
