WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
The Peruvian government on Thursday said it would continue a controversial family planning programme that includes the sterilisation of poor women but added there would be restrictions.The policy change comes amid US threats to cut off family planning aid and accusations by church groups that Peruvian doctors were coercing or …
KINHILL-TASMAN, an Australian consultant, has undertaken an ambitious World Bank-funded project in coordination with the Andhra Pradesh Government to conduct a comprehensive urban water and sanitation sector strategy study meant for Andhra Pradesh.This is one of the first projects to be undertaken in the country and the experience gained in …
The Government is putting finishing touches on a legislation to protect "geographical appellations" in this country, in a bid to prevent incidents like the patenting of basmati rice in the United States. Urgency has been imparted to the bill as a result of this incident, but the draft had been …
a report of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (fao) shows that 31 countries faced food emergencies during 1997 as against 25 countries in 1996. The report blames bad weather, poor crops and civil war for such calamities. Of the affected countries, Africa accounted for 20, Asia - five, eastern Europe …
researchers have recently discovered 92-million-year old fossilised ants. With this discovery, it has become clear that these omnipresent insects have been on the Earth for more than twice as long as what was previously thought. Entomologists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York found the ants in …
water hyacinths (Eichhornia crassipes) have never had it so good, and Lake Victoria in Africa has seldom had it so bad. The lake has been infested by the weed that has caused numerous problems to fisherfolk, tangling the fishing nets, clogging up the motors of the boats and destroying the …
Total fertility rate (TFR) of Sri Lankan women is now estimated to be lower than that of their counterparts in some developed nations. TFR in Sri Lanka has fallen much faster than what was officially projected, reaching the targeted replacement level of 2.1 in 1993, almost eight years before the …
The Madras High Court has held the state government responsible for not making sincere efforts to prevent deforestation. The Court directed to set up a Special Task Committee. Justice E Padmanabhan said it is evident from the records produced in the Court that there has been a substantial rise in …
the Maharashtra government has withdrawn a controversial circular seeking to isolate hiv -positive women in the state and carrying out compulsory Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (aids) tests on them. Several non-governmental organisations (ngos) had opposed the government's move. According to these ngo s, the order violates constitutional provisions. The health …
A new study suggests that men who have frequent sex are likely to live longer. Researchers George Davey Smith, from University of Bristol, UK, found that men who had sex less than once a month had twice the death rate of those who had sex at least twice a week. …
• The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has constituted a committee to montor the implementation of the rules of hazardous waste management. M G K Menon, former minister for science and technology will head the panel. • The Central government has infor-med the Supreme Court that Agra does not …
researchers have managed to prepare a mighty arsenal of drugs to combat aids as the global war against the disease nears its third decade. Studies have led to the development of potent cocktails of anti- hiv drugs that unleash a powerful counter attack, pounding down billions of virus particles to …
THE book is a compilation of 42 papers contributed by social, physical and environment scientists who are working with issues that confront the Himalayas. The first three papers deal with the conceptual aspects of human ecology in relation to the environment, from the past to the present, and the effects …
Drugs for treating cancer will be more effective and less toxic in future and molecular technology is propelling the development of a cancer vaccine, according to researchers. Scientists at a recent American Medical Association (AMA) conference said that new treatments for certain lymphomas were "extremely effective," that gene therapy offered …
The United Nations is blaming the multi-billion dollar western pop music industry for the dramatic rise in drug abuse world-wide. "The most worrisome development is a culture of drug-friendliness that seems to be gaining prominence," said the U.N.'s 13-member International Narcotics Control Board in a report released here.
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board(TNEB) will soon be coming out with a tariff structure for power from cogeneration using alternate fuels in sugar mills. Tariffs for power from duel fuels, bagasse and lignite, are under consideration. Currently, during the crushing season, sugar mills utilise bagasse as fuel for generating power …
Uniting for a clear picutre: various satellite-based earth watch missions are tending to fuse together for a better picture of the planet and to give appropriate solutions for local problems. Thus, from January this year, it is no longer called the Mission to Planet earth but has been renamed Earth …
The India-Canada Environment Facility, a bilateral funding agency, is keen to launch a project for combating arsenic pollution in West Bengal. According to sources the dialogues with various parties have been initiated and the project was likely to be implemented with the help of technical bodies like the Institute of …
Children are the most susceptible to dietary vices - as the focus on them by advertising and fast food companies testfies. But overeating during childhood does not just produce obesity. It may increase the risk of cancer in later life, according to a report in the latest issue of the …
A breakthrough in the treatment of Malaria may be near as scientists at Johns Hopkins University are developing an anti-malarial treatment based on artemisinin, a derivative of a Chinese herbal remedy for fever.
