Health

WHO concerned over tobacco ads at point of sale

Though India’s latest tobacco control step of mandating films with smoking scenes to carry statutory warnings introduced last year is hailed as one of the best practices under the World Health Orga

Publication Date: 
01/06/2013
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Tobacco, WHO, Advertising
Health

Totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB) in India: every dark cloud has a silver lining

In the early weeks of January 2012, a report of four cases of tuberculosis from Mumbai, India, stirred up a storm.1 India bears a giant's share of the world's multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) burden, but these cases were different even though they came from a centre (Hinduja Hospital and Research Center) which has been reporting on the alarming escalation in drug-resistant TB in Mumbai over the last two decades. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
01/06/2013
Zarir Udwadia, Deepesh Vendoti
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
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471-472
Tags:
Tuberculosis, Mumbai, India, Diagnostic Methods, Health Care, Maharashtra, Public Sector, Private Sector
Industry

Coke takes e-com sip, starts online home delivery store

Mumbai: Coca-Cola India has piloted an online store for home delivery of all its products in an attempt to tap the burgeoning e-commerce market — a first of its kind move by an FMCG company.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2013
Samidha Sharma
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Coca Cola, India, Ahmedabad (T), Electronics
Health

New initiative to boost family planning launched

UNFPA-IPPF initiative to fill gap in health care infrastructure.

Publication Date: 
31/05/2013
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Family Planning, Health Care, UN Fund For Population Activities (UNFPA), Bolivia, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Kenya, Liberia, Myanmar, Nigeria
Industry

Toyota Plans to Roll Out Hybrid Etios

The world’s largest carmaker Toyota Motor Corporation is considering a hybrid option for its compact sedan Etios to meet the emerging market needs and may look at production of hybrid cars in India

Publication Date: 
31/05/2013
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Auto Industry, Toyota Motor, India, Toyoto Kirloskar Motors, Hybrid Electric
Environment

A new global partnership: eradicate poverty and transform economies through sustainable development

This report sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development. It calls upon the world to rally around a new Global Partnership that offers hope and a role to every person in the world.

Publication Date: 
30/05/2013
United Nations
Tags:
Sustainable Development, Poverty, India, Global, Environment, Economic Development, Consumption Patterns, Climate Change
Economy

'India probably world's third-largest economy'

Until around 2020, China is set to have to highest growth rate among major countries, but could be then surpassed by India, it further said

Publication Date: 
30/05/2013
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, United States Of America (US), China, Economy, Economic Development
Health

Malnutrition to cost India up to $46 billion?

Malnutrition in children at the start of life severely impairs their learning ability affecting their literacy and then affects their earning ability later in life, according to a study commissione

Publication Date: 
29/05/2013
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Children, Malnutrition, Medical Research, India, UN, Andhra Pradesh, Nutrition
Climate Change

Welspun Energy collaborates with ICFRE for increasing India’s forest cover

The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) and Forest Research Institute Dehradun (FRI) in collaboration with Welspun Energy Ltd. (WEL), India’s foremost renewable energy generator, organized a workshop titled ‘Innovation for Forest Carbon Finance in India’ on 28th May 2013 at FRI’s Dehradun campus.

Publication Date: 
28/05/2013
Welspun Energy Ltd
Tags:
Carbon Market, Forests, India, Finance, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Forest Conservation
Health

Food for thought: tackling child malnutrition to unlock potential and boost prosperity

In the past two decades, progress in tackling malnutrition has been pitifully slow. This report demonstrate how investment in nutrition is not only the right thing to do, it is a down-payment on future prosperity.

Publication Date: 
28/05/2013
Save the Children
Tags:
Malnutrition, Children, Child Health, Health Effects, Economic Development, India, Global, Women, Nutrition, Education

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