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 …
with the growing realisation that regular physical activity is vital for good health, more and more women are taking to strenuous physical exercises. But exercise regimens are governed by guidelines on how far the body can be pushed. Such recommendations are based on three considerations: • potential health benefits • …
The threat to the foetus seems all pervasive, with even something as seemingly innocuous as a computer display screen being a threat. High levels of radiation (including X-rays, magnetic impulses from electronic devices, like computers, or nuclear radiation), can kill cells and damage organs. At low doses, radiation can initiate …
the womb is, in essence, a miniature universe in creation. Primitive cells and tissues take human form within its sheltered confines. Sheltered? Not so anymore. This placid abode of the yet unborn is under siege. Crossing the physical barrier between a mother and her foetus, noxious environmental pollutants generated by …
women in India are an unhealthy lot. According to a recent World Bank report, Improving Women's Health in India , the female population of India is left behind when it comes to health care even though the country has made significant progress in social and health monitors like life expectancy, …
Workplaces are great. They give you money, satisfaction and a sense of belongingness. But some of them in China are giving their workers considerable nightmares. About 230,000 workers, mostly women, employed in 74 shoe factories in the city of Putian in Fijian province are exposed to benzene and toluene on …
OLDER women can also enjoy good cardiac health if they opt for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after menopause, because the hormone alters the shape of the body giving the older women more younger and healthier figures. At the recently held European Congress on Obesity in Barcelona, Spain, an Australian endocrinologist …
• The Indian Oil Corporation will be penalised by the Calcutta Port Trust for the oil spill at Haldia barge jetty on May 30-31. The port authorities said that the incident was not an accident but a case of gross negligence. • Dunlop India's tyre manufacturing factory at Sahagunj, West …
IT is definitely a small world that we live in today, and Damocles' sword never shone so ruthlessly before. This fact has been highlighted by the startling revelations in the recently released The State of World Population, 1996. Within 10 years, more than half the people of the global village …
ACCORDING to the World Science Report released recently by the UNESCO, only one per cent of women who take up science at higher levels in India complete their Ph D, with almost three-quarters leaving after their first degree. Women scientists in research and development in India comprise a low three …
Hypertension and anaemia are the new buzzwords in health circles in Bhutan. For the first time, under the health systems research programme, the two ailments which primarily affects pregnant women, will be the focus of thorough research after they were identified to be the most common prevalent illnesses in the …
STUDIES on the interrelationships between gender, poverty and environmental change in rural India remain a grey area, tackled by very few economists, a notable exception being Bina Agarwal. This well-chiseled monograph focuses on variations across regions and shifts over the last two decades. It studies the impact of environmental degradation …
AS THE poll date neared, notes on issues such as gender, justice and natural resource management often got lost in the noise of campaign slogans. Conventionally, such issues are considered psephologically insignificant. But this time, although women do not really figure prominently in the mandate of 1996, issues like prohibition, …
THE World Education Report, 1995, compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recently been released. The third edition of a biennial series, the report aims at presenting a broad but concise analysis of major trends and policy issues in present day education systems in different …
The New Delhi-based Forum for Creche and Childcare Services (FOCUS), a network of 47 organisations, has launched a campaign to highlight the need for childcare support for women working in the unorganised sector. According to FOCUS, 60 million children belonging to women in this sector need daycare facilities, while the …
Indira Gandhi Canal Project has come to my desert land They say it will bring greenery all over Oh! the sisters have come Yes, the sisters have come The rich got land deeds to command (irrigated) land The poor souls all reached atop the sand dunes . Oh! the sisters …
Women keen on motherhood are being advised to cut down their intake of coffee. A study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the US found that women who consume 300 mg of caffeine a day, roughly three cups of coffee or eight sodas per day, reduce their …
DEVELOPED by Roger Gosden of the University of Leeds in the UK, the process of restoring woman's fertility involves the removal of the ovaries before chemotherapy and radiation in cancer patients. A few slices of it are put in cold storage with the hope that the frozen pieces of this …
Every month countless women suffer abdominal pain caused due to the menstrual cycle. Nigel Cronin at the University of Bath, UK, has developed a microwave probe to treat this problem. The probe, inserted into the uterus, sends out heat producing microwaves of 3.3 cm wavelengths which destroy only the endometrium …
NEW measures resisting women from selling human ova has been urged by the architect of Britain's human fertility, Baroness Warnock. Revelations about agencies paying upto us $1,500 for a single batch necessitated a legislation to put an end to this inhuman trade. The administrative body responsible for licensing and regulating …
RESEARCHERS in theus areexcited abouta recent breakthrough which links the BRCA-1 gene to most cases of breast cancer. The finding provides clin- ching evidence that establishes a connection between abnormalities in the BRCA- I and the occurence of breast cancer. just last year the scenario was quite different because scientists …
