-The Times of India LONDON: Majority of the $3 billion spent by the world's leading philanthropic organization - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on finding solutions around improved agricultural yield to benefit the world's poorest and hungry people, has been spent in the US, Britain and other rich developed nations. Grain, a research group based in Barcelona said on Tuesday that over 80% of the grants were given to organizations in...
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Salt invasion in Indo-Gangetic basin has led to 40% increase in human health problems: UN -Kounteya Sinha
-The Economic Times LONDON: Large areas of rich irrigated and fertile land in the Indo-Gangetic basin is being lost daily to salt damage, confirms the UN. Crop yield losses on salt-affected lands for wheat, rice, sugarcane and cotton grown on salt-affected lands could be 40%, 45%, 48%, and 63%, respectively. Employment losses could be 50-80 man-days per hectare, with an estimate 20-40% increase in human health problems and 15-50% increase in animal health...
More »A suicidal nation -Prabhat Singh
-Livemint A look at the trends in suicide rates, and the areas where they are the highest Global attitude surveys may rank Indians among the most optimistic in the world but suicide deaths in the country tell a different and more depressing story. Suicide rates in India are among the highest in the world, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) database of global suicide deaths. Please click here to read more. ...
More »24% of global missed TB cases in India: WHO -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: One in every four missed cases of tuberculosis (TB) globally is in India.The World Health Organisation has found that India tops the list of the world's missed TB cases. Almost 24% of the world's missed TB cases are from India, according to the Global TB Report 2014 released on Thursday. Ten countries accounted for 74% (2.4 million) of the estimated "missed" cases globally in 2013. The number of...
More »A multi-sectoral approach to dengue control -Poonam Khetrapal Singh
-The Hindu Rapid urbanisation, globalisation, consumerism, poor solid waste and water management and increasing population movement have created new habitats for mosquito breeding Dengue fever is rearing its ugly head again in India with new cases of infections and even deaths being reported from different States. The world's fastest growing vector-borne disease, dengue sees an estimated 50-100 million cases being reported annually in over 100 endemic countries. Ever since its detection in...
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