Nearly 65% of adults in the Arab region remain excluded from formal financial systems, according to a new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The Annual SDG Review 2025 paints a sobering picture of persistent financial exclusion that is undermining the region’s ability …
women across the world have been greatly concerned by breast cancer and of late, scientists and researchers have devoted their efforts to find a treatment that prevents the disease. Recently, tamoxifen grabbed headlines as researchers announced that the drug could effectively prevent breast cancer in women who are most likely …
A STUDY conducted by Shobhana Warrier, a professor at the Jamia Millia Isalmia, Delhi, notes that the workers in fish processing units are often made to work under pathetic conditions and live in dilapidated, dingy, humid sheds under unhygenic conditions. As a result, they suffer from various ailments. The workers, …
Although the Chipko movement is practically non-existent in its region of origin it remains one of the most frequently deployed examples of an environmental and/or a women's movement in the South. A small but growing number of commentators are now critiquing much neopopulist theorising on Chipko, and this paper provides …
DECENTRALISING power at the grassroots; level was on the national agenda for many years. It became a reality through the 73rd and 74th amendments to the Constitution in April 1993. The 73rd amendment, among other things, handed over the reins of power to the people at the panchayat level with …
Involvement of women is on your priority list. Why? The women in the villages are involved in three basic things - water, fuel and fodder. Along with agriculture, one of the basic goals of watershed development programmes is to help in improving the life of women in villages. It is …
Unsafe abortions are primary killers of women between the ages of 14 and 44 in Ghana. Poverty and ignorance among people allows quacks to have a flourishing business. According to the health minister, approximately 1,200 women die each year due to this illegal practice. Worldwide around 20 million unsafe abortions …
Female flight attendants run a higher risk of getting breast cancer. This could be due to the effects of jet lag on melanin, a hormone, the level of which is up to 10 times higher levels in the blood at night than during the day. Crossing time zones repeatedly may …
Teenagers in Brazil gave birth to a staggering 900,000 babies in 1997, thus accounting for 26.5 per cent of all live births in the country. According to the ministry of health, girls between the age of 10 and 14 gave birth to 1,3 per cent of babies, while teenagers aged …
BABIES born to mothers who live near hazardous waste landfill sites have a higher risk of serious birth defects, warns a European report. Women living within three-kilometre of a hazardous landfill site are more likely to have babies with nervous-system problems, holes in the heart and malformations of the large …
PREMENSTRUAL syndrome or PMS is an inseparable part of every woman's life. Involving both physical as well as emotional symptoms, it occurs regularly in relation to the menstrual cycle. PMS, according to experts, usually sets in about five to eleven days before the menses and subsides either with menses or …
DOW CORNING, the US silicon products manufacturer, has agreed to a US $3.2 billion deal, ending the long-running US battle over breast implant litigation. The company will pay the amount to compensate about 170,000 women worldwide who have made breast implant claims. If all the money went to the claimants, …
It is known that women are more prone to migraine and that such attacks are usually related to menstruation cycle. Women also appear to be more prone to motion sickness and this susceptibility seems to follow their hormonal levels. This was examined in a group of mariners participating in yacht …
though the factors responsible for a woman's risk of breast cancer have been known to the doctors for years, there was little they could possibly do except issue warnings and suggest preventive measures to cut down the chances of aggravating the disease. However, there has been little consensus on what …
Nearly 600,000 women die of pregnancy-related complications every year. One woman in 30 who develop chronic, debilitating problems, dies. Each year, nearly 3.4 million infants die in the first days of their life. And for every baby that dies, another is stillborn. These deaths are due to poor health and …
women who smoke, have a 50 per cent higher risk of dying from heart attack than men who smoke, say researchers. The likely reason given is that tobacco smoke has an adverse effect on the female hormone, oestrogen. Researchers monitored nearly 11,500 women and 13,200 men for the study for …
if one were to go by picture postcards, women in the Indian Himalaya are pretty and dainty, with rosy cheeks and soft hands. The reality, however, is quite different. The glow on their cheeks is a result of hard labour. And their soft hands are callused from the rough work …
The Internet is perhaps the next best thing after we discovered fire and invented the wheel. An astounding wealth of information on every subject under the Sun just waiting for a click of the mouse. Simply amazing. This time, we look at some of the sites on the world wide …
At a time when plantation companies are under pressure for financial irregularities, they are also facing severe criticism from the ministry of environment and forests which has castigated them for "over projecting' their returns. Increasing demand for drinking water and continuous discharge of effluents into the Gomti has sent alarm …
A self-propelled paddy transplanter has been developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi. The machine uses mat-type seedlings for transplanting eight rows at a time. Gyanendra Singh, director of ICAR's Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal, claims the transplanter can work equivalent to 40 workers. Manual …
It's a man's life they say. Join up and see a man's world, for even when it comes to kidney transplants men have the cake and eat it too. Are the new technologies that are coming up anti-women or is it a question of male behaviour? This strange pattern of …
