-The Hindu Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh): The taste of tamarind is likely to turn more tartaric this season given its higher market price at Rs. 70 to Rs. 80 a kg despite the bumper crop. "The crop is good but the cumulative yield is not commensurate as many of the huge old trees have been felled mercilessly in rural area," Killare Namdev, a tamarind trader from Yavatmal in Maharashtra, gives out the reason...
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The burden of Congress' ignorance: Why doesn't it take credit for vital statistics?
-The Economic Times If there are two statistics that summarise a nation's overall well-being, these are the infant mortality rate (IMR) and the maternal mortality rate (MMR). India has registered remarkable progress on both fronts over the last decade. IMR has declined 28% from 58 in 2004 to 42 in 2012. MMR has come down 36% from 280 in 2005 to 178 in 2012. The decline has been more spectacular in some...
More »Crimes Against Women Confined to Pockets of Delhi: HC
-Outlook The Delhi High Court today said crimes against women in the national capital occur more often in a few "pockets" of the city, particularly areas which have undergone rapid urbanisation. A bench of acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice S Mridul made the remarks after going through the crime-mapping charts and tables submitted by Delhi Police pursuant to the court's order to undertake the exercise. "On going through the charts...
More »Tobacco use accounts for 40 per cent of all cancers in India, says report-R Prasad
-The Times of India "Number of deaths may shoot up to 1.2 million by 2035" Every year nearly one million new cancer cases are diagnosed in India, the prevalence being 2.5 million. With mortalities of 6,00,000-7,00,000 a year, cancer causes six per cent of all adult deaths in the country. The number of deaths per year is projected to shoot up to 1.2 million by 2035, according to a series of papers published...
More »IIT-Delhi shows cheap can be wonderful -Manash Pratim Gohain
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Be it the urinal which saves 1,51,000 litres of water every year and draws out of the excrement phosphorus - a mineral which India imports - or the Rs 120 cholesterol test which otherwise costs Rs 5,800, or even the low-cost cellphone-size hemoglobin meter that must surely be a boon to a country in which an overwhelming proportion of maternal deaths result from malnutrition-triggered anemia,...
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