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 …
Focus on creating new jobs in rural India The Agriculture Ministry is likely to get a high profile in the Narendra Modi government’s economic revival and rural jobs agenda. “Agriculture will be one of the most important Ministries for the new government,” a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader told The …
A 2010 survey conducted by the Scheduled Tribes Development Department had found that nearly half of the total deaths in the ST communities over the previous five years were premature or unnatural. The department recently prepared a state-level socio-economic status report based on the survey data which is yet to …
Navi Mumbai: A recent medical survey conducted by in the city by a group of ophthalmologists has revealed that nearly 29% of diabetic patients are not aware that they are slowly becoming blind due to the permanent damage caused to the retina. Of the 2,520 diabetic patients screened recently at …
Land consolidation proceedings, including the exercise for repartition of land, can be revised in a village without granting an opportunity of hearing to the persons likely to be affected if the Delhi Lieutenant-Governor is satisfied that the process has been vitiated by unlawful consideration, such as fraud and manipulation of …
JAIPUR: Rearing its ugly head much before the usual monsoonal rains, the dreaded swine flu has claimed two more lives in Rajasthan's Jaipur and Ajmer, taking the state's total toll due to it to nine since April 1. A 60-year-old woman of Chomu town near Jaipur and a 26-year-old woman …
Twenty eight persons have been killed and 333 injured in the incidents of man-animal conflict in past one year. These incidents have also resulted in the death of 10 leopards and nine black bears. According to the officials at wildlife department, 2013 has witnessed the maximum number of deaths of …
The emerging markets of India, Brazil, and China in particular, have been the story of the century so far, with rapid economic development driving poverty reduction and rising prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Meanwhile, having recovered from a profound financial crisis, most of the developed world is starting to return …
Mortality rate is declining but not enough to meet Millennium Development Goal. India accounts for the maximum number of maternal deaths in the world — 17 per cent or nearly 50,000 of the 2.89 lakh women who died as a result of complications due to pregnancy or childbearing in 2013. …
The Cochin Thoracic Society will organise a bike rally to create awareness on asthma on World Asthma Day on Tuesday, its treatment and control that will help patients lead normal lives. The rally will be inaugurated by Hibi Eden, MLA, from the High Court junction and will culminate at the …
Court Asks Doc To Pay For Maintenance Of Child Ahmedabad: Inspired by the government slogan of ‘Hum Do, Hamare Do', 40-year-old Madhu Solanki, a farm labourer, opted for family planning operation. But imagine her shock when she became pregnant with the third child. Solanki, who had opted for the procedure …
The amount is required to reconstruct a total of 11 lakh slum households in the city as per latest Census figureS. Mumbai will need Rs 55,000 crore if it has to target each and every slum over the next ten years under the central government’s flagship slum-free cities scheme Rajiv …
Around 59.5 per cent of the population of Berhampur is compelled to opt for open air defecation, which has become a major health hazard. Members of ‘Children’s Federation’, an organisation of children living in slums of the city, demanded that the Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BMC) and administration should initiate measures …
Sub-Saharan Africa’s lack of electricity is hindering development but this can be reversed if countries turn to ambitious, large-scale renewable energy projects, an environmental think-tank suggests. The region — home to 41 per cent of the world’s energy-poor people, with 65 per cent of primary schools and 30 per cent …
The United States remained the world’s largest economy, but it was closely followed by China when measured using PPPs. India is now the world’s third largest economy in terms of purchasing power partiy, ahead of Japan and behind the US and China which hold the top two spots. This was …
Malihabad: Voter consciousness and power of democracy came to the fore at Jankinagar village of Malihabad area where none of the 378 voters exercised franchise to protest apathy of leaders. About 38 km from Hazratganj, the heart of the state capital and on the border of the city off ring …
This high-level panel report on the socio-economic status of the 700-odd tribal communities of the country kept under cover since May 2014 when it was submitted to the NDA government is exclusively available here. Download, read and find more...
More than 80 per cent of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits will be deprived of their voting right in the Srinagar parliamentary constituency, going to the polls tomorrow. Of the 36,015 registered Kashmiri Pandit voters, 5,098 voters can cast their vote as only 1,888 M-Forms have been processed by the Assistant …
The power ministry is framing guidelines for the implementation of local area development fund (LADF) to ensure state governments pass on the intended monetary benefits to people affected by hydel projects. The Centre's revenue from the sale of 1% free power to discoms goes to the LADF. (The government doesn't …
847 habitations to get road connectivity Under phase- X of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), 679 schemes have been proposed for Jammu and Kashmir covering a length of around 3900 kilometers with an approximate cost of Rs 4086 crore. 379 schemes have been proposed for Jammu province while …
The death of 254 Indian women in the course of a 15-year US-funded clinical trial has triggered a raging debate about its ethicality. The trial was for a cervical cancer screening method and the women who died were part of a control group kept without screening to study death rates …
