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 …
The present report forms a part of the All India Tiger Monitoring exercise undertaken on the direction of the Ministry of Environment and Forests by the Wildlife Institute of India in association with National Tiger Conservation Authority, and the State Forest Departments. As a part of this process, preliminary findings …
As an animal high on popularity charts, the tiger has fascinated and awed generations for centuries. However, with its range confined to 14 Asian countries today, its distribution has more than halved and so have its numbers. With the tiger facing a serious challenge in its entire distribution range, the …
DR. RAMAN Singh became the second Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in the State on December 8, 2003. An Ayurvedic doctor by profession, he entered politics in 1976. While Chhattisgarh was still a part of Madhya Pradesh, he was Member of the …
"DUE to the illegal acts of persons like the convicts, the sex ratio is declining day by day in the country... The day is not far when there would be no girl child around." This grim warning was issued by a Sub-Divisional Magistrate in Faridabad on March 28 while sentencing …
Human enterprise knows no bounds, and the people of Maldives have proved this. They have built a new island to contain the overflowing population of the capital Male. "The project was launched because of land shortage in Male. We've taken a shallow lagoon and created a totally new piece of …
· 110 out of 182 countries are culturally diverse with at least 25 per cent of their populations belonging to an ethnic or a religious minority. In 42 countries their population ranges between 10-25 per cent · Yet, 900 million of them belong to groups subject to some form of …
In deep shit This is what most developing countries are in Country Total population (millions) Annual excrement production (million metric tonnes) Annual excrement not disposed of safely (million metric tonnes) Afghanistan 28.7 2.7 2.4 Bangladesh 146.7 13.9 7.2 Brazil 176.5 16.7 4 Burkina Faso 13.2 1.3 0.9 Cambodia 12.6 1.2 …
At one point in the epic Mahabharata, the pandavs and kauravs go to warfare school. Amid thick forests, they train hard. Then, the time comes when they must leave. Yudhister, the eldest pandav, gifts the space as guru dakshina to his guru, Dronacharya. In time, there came up a town …
The indigenous population of the Andaman and Nicobar islands might very soon be extinct. Today the combined population of the four indigenous tribal groups
bird species now face a wave of extinction not seen on the Earth since the dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago, according to a report from the Worldwatch Institute, a us-based research organisation. Pressures from a human population of more than 6.2 billion have put about 12 per …
function openana1(){ var popurl="html/20030331_p28.htm" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=610,height=460") } War zones Where battles rage in the evening By the time they killed it on June 25, 2002 the female elephant had killed 13 people over three days across the Indo-Nepal border. This much is known. The rest is a mix of half-truths, rumours, …
This report provides detailed data of the seventeenth livestock census. It consists of twenty-nine sub reoirts i.e. one all India, twenty eight state reports and one report covering all UTs. Each report provides corresponding data of livestock, poultry, fishery and agricultural implements further divided into rural/urban and total.
During the last two decades of the previous century, the magnitude of forced population displacements caused by development programs was on the order of 10 million people each year, or some 200 million people globally during that period. Thus, by their frequency, size, ad the dire consequences, development-cased displacements have …
STATE OF THE WORLD 2002 (US $15.95), VITAL SIGNS 2002 (US $14.95); ECO-ECONOMY: BUILDING AN ECONOMY FOR THE EARTH, 2001 (US $14.95) . Lester R Brown; THE EARTH POLICY READER . Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen and Bernie Fishlowitz-Roberts, 2002 (US $16), all published by W W Norton & Company, …
