-The Times of India Even as one in four deaths worldwide in 2010 was caused by heart disease or stroke the top two killers that have remained constant for the past 40 years human mortality caused by climate change has shown the most dangerous spurt over the last four decades. The Global Burden of Disease Study, 2010, published by the British medical journal, The Lancet, on Thursday shows that there has been...
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Condom use dips in 22 states, sets off population spurt alarm -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India Condom use among men in India is falling drastically — a dangerous trend for the country's already swelling population. The Union health ministry has found that out of 34 states, 22 states have recorded a major dip in condom use in 2010-11 as against the previous year. The five states with the highest overall dip in condom use has been the Andaman and Nicobar islands (50%), Madhya Pradesh (39%),...
More »Child mortality: Rates of concern -TK Rajalakshmi
-Frontline A JOINT study by the UNICEF and the National Institute of Medical Statistics (a division of the Indian Council of Medical Research) on the levels, trends and determinants of infant and under-five mortality has concluded that at the current pace, India is unlikely to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets or the child survival Goals of the Twelfth Plan. This, despite there being a consistent decline in the infant...
More »Doha climate talks: India not to enhance its pledge of reducing emissions -Nitin Sethi
-The Times of India DOHA: The Union environment and forests minister Jayanthi Natarajan may not come to the climate talks but the Indian delegation here led by special secretary M Mehrishi has got the nod from the cabinet to draw its strong redlines at the Doha round of UN negotiations. The government has ordered the Indian delegation at Doha to not enhance its pledge of reducing emissions intensity at Doha and reiterated...
More »Keeper of grains-Jyotika Sood
-Down to Earth An ecologist has been guarding seeds of more than 750 rare rice varieties for over a decade Lit by a kerosene lamp, the two-room hut just outside a sleepy hamlet in Odisha’s Rayagada district can easily pass off as any other farmer’s house in this tribal region. Step inside it, and one is taken aback by the hundreds of earthen pots labelled with coded stickers stacked in a corner...
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