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 …
Landmark May Be Reached By November In the midst of all the handwringing over population explosion, the Indian government might miss preparing for a global record-setting event
BHUBANESWAR: In the macro perspective, the micro finance penetration in the State has been quite swift last year. The swiftness is yet to trigger any sort of alarm. However, the impression it conveys is very clear tread with caution. This is the view of the report Micro-finance in India2010 with …
New Delhi: India will miss its target of reaching population stabilization by 2045 with the Union health ministry now looking at 2060 as a plausible target. India had set itself the goal of attaining replacement levels of fertility
Pune The second phase of the National Population Register drive in the district will commence from February 9 and will be on till February 28 in Pune. A meeting was held at Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA) under chief secretary J P Dange. The final counting for the …
The authors analysed livelihood conditions in 10 river basins over three continents to identify generalizable links between water, agriculture and poverty. There were significant variations in hydrological conditions, livelihood strategies and institutions across basins, but also systematic patterns across levels of economic development. At all levels, access to water is …
2010 was a year of contrasts. Many countries bounced back from recession while several others faced difficult economic and fiscal adjustments, which in some cases are still ongoing. The year also had its share of crises, including the violence that induced the change of Government and institutions in Kyrgyzstan, the …
Indicus Analytics / December 16, 2010, 0:39 IST The number of children per woman has been declining but the poorer skew the record CITY LIGHTAccording to the United Nations Population Division
Sustainable and resilient cities should be focus of urban development INFORMATIVE:D.B. Raju (right), Executive Vice President, Larsen and Toubro, presenting a souvenir to Karumuttu T.Kannan, Chairman and Correspondent, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, in MADURAI: An international conference here on Wednesday called for making the Indian cities
Pravda Godbole / Pune December 07, 2010, 0:26 IST Invented by ex-IITians, it connects with sonography machines to monitor the activities of doctors In April-May 2009, the collector of Maharashtra
Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) cell in the state has stepped up its efforts to stop killing of girl child. The cell, especially made to implement the PCPNDT Act, has started a campaign of sort in the state to check sonography centres regularly in all districts of Rajasthan, starting …
Now, State Celebrates Birth Of Girls TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad: From a dubious reputation of wombs turning to graves, Gujarat is promising a safe cradle for girls to be born. The latest civil registration system (CRS) data released by the government said the sex ratio has gone up to 905 …
If you want to rank states, there are two broad roads to follow. First, you can administer questionnaires and respondents' reply to specific questions. This route, however, presumes that respondents know about all the states you wish to rank. Typically, that doesn't happen. Respondents know about states they operate in …
Although reliable figures are often missing, considerable detrimental changes due to shrinking glaciers are universally expected for water availability in river systems under the influence of ongoing global climate change. We estimate the contribution potential of seasonally delayed glacier melt water to total water availability in large river systems. We …
