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 …
Our future crops will face threats not only from climate change, but also from the massive expansion of cities, a new study warns. By 2030, it’s estimated that urban areas will triple in size, expanding into cropland and undermining the productivity of agricultural systems that are already stressed by rising …
The tribal population In India lags behind other social groups on various social parameters, such as child mortality, infant mortality, number of anaemic women, says the latest annual report of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Tribal population, with a vast majority engaged in agricultural labour, has the largest number of …
The DAMAN will continue for five years and will cost the government a total of Rs 120 crore. The government has already sanctioned Rs 10 crore to roll out the first stages of the programme. As many as 80 lakh high-risk members of the population will benefit from this new …
The Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is likely to come up with fortification standards for packaged food products such as cereals and biscuits. Fortification means deliberately increasing the content of essential micronutrients such as iron, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Iodine, etc, in a food product so as …
PANJIM: While dengue cases have registered a significant drop in the State this year – 105 cases as compared to 208 in 2015 – malaria cases have risen significantly from 457 cases last year to 544 so far in 2016. Almost 80 percent malaria cases detected in the State are …
AURANGABAD: Highlighting the grim picture of farmers' suicide placed by the NCRB data - stating that so far about 3,08,826 farmers committed suicide from 1995-2014 - representatives of FIAN India, Land and Livelihood Knowledge Activists Hub and Peoples Forum on BRICS said it's high time that BRICS nations focus on …
The revised estimates put the incidence of TB in India at 217 per 1,00,000 population in 2015 as against the previously estimated 127 per 1,00,000. WHO said the size of the epidemic has increased considerably because researchers realised that earlier estimates from India were too low. Inaccurate estimates of the …
Demographic change is one of the powerful forces transforming the world economy. As global population growth slows and urbanization plateaus in many regions, the outlook for cities and their growth changes profoundly. This paper explores the challenges facing the urban world and strategies that cities might deploy to survive and …
An alarming report by Indus Health Plus has pointed out that 35 – 40 percent of working population in Delhi is suffering from hypertension and diabetes which leads to risk of heart diseases by 4 – 6 percent. The trend can be due to high sugar consumption as high sugar …
Many of the world’s megacities depend on groundwater from geologically complex aquifers that are over-exploited and threatened by contamination. Here, using the example of Dhaka, Bangladesh, we illustrate how interactions between aquifer heterogeneity and groundwater exploitation jeopardize groundwater resources regionally. Groundwater pumping in Dhaka has caused large-scale drawdown that extends …
Kerala and Tamil Nadu have the highest median ages Uttar Pradesh and Bihar's populations have the lowest median ages-or youngest populations-in India while Kerala and Tamil Nadu have the highest median ages, according to Census 2011 data, compiled by Bengaluru-based think tank Takshashila Institution. The median age is the age …
In Odisha, a man slung his wife's body over his shoulder and carried it 10 km after being denied an ambulance on August 24, 2016. In Kanpur, a man's sick son died on his shoulder after being denied admission to a hospital on August 29, 2016. Such cases become visible …
Human activities have taken a heavy toll on our environment. But there may be some hope, researchers say. Although human pressures continue to expand across our planet, their overall rate of increase is slower than the rates of population and economic growth, a new study published in Nature Communications has …
The world population will reach 9.9 billion in 2050, up 33 percent from an estimated 7.4 billion now, according to projections included in the latest World Population Data Sheet from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB). The world population would hit the 10 billion mark in 2053 if the assumptions underlying …
In a span of 12 months, there has been almost 20 percent rise in the number of deaths caused by sickle-cell anaemia in Gujarat. In a span of 12 months, there has been almost 20 percent rise in the number of deaths caused by sickle-cell anaemia in Gujarat. In the …
The Mental Health Care Bill 2013, which provides for protection and promotion of rights of persons with mental illness during the delivery of health care in institutions and in the community, was passed unanimously by a voice vote. The Rajya Sabha passed a bill seeking to provide better healthcare for …
DEHRADUN: In a bid to control monkey menace in the state, the Uttarakhand forest department in collaboration with the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) is going to introduce a project, pegged as the first in the country, in which female monkeys will be given oral immuno-contraceptive medicine, Porcine Zona Pellucida …
The expenditure on healthcare in last fiscal by the Centre and state governments was 1.3 per cent of the GDP, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. As per the Economic Survey 2015-2016, the expenditure by government (Central and state governments combined) on health as percentage of GDP was 1.3 …
BHUBANESWAR: The shocking spate of deaths among Juang infants in mineral-rich Jajpur’s Nagada has exposed the slow progress achieved by the State in ensuring appropriate nutrition for its tribal populace which is reflected in the level of stunting, wasting and weight among children. Over the last 10 years, there has …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Tribal Population, 18/07/2016. Demographic details of Scheduled Tribes as per Census 2011 are available in public domain on the website of the Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. State / UT-wise population of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) including Jharkhand are …
