-PTI United Nations: India recorded the largest number of tuberculosis cases in the world last year, according to a report by the World Health Organisation. The WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2015 said 1.5 million people died in 2014 from the disease, which ranks alongside HIV as a leading killer worldwide. The report, released Wednesday, said nearly 58 per cent of the 9.6 million new TB cases in 2014 were from East Asia and...
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Making a dent in world poverty depends on India -Noah Smith
-Livemint.com/ Bloomberg To join the global middle class, India must do much better Max Roser is at it again. The Oxford professor and master of economic data visualization has a new set of maps and charts showing how global income and inequality have changed during the last couple of centuries. The upshot is that while the world has gotten steadily richer that entire time, something very special and very good has...
More »Pulse of the matter: Manufacturing a dal crisis, short-changing both farmer and consumer -Yogesh Pawar
-DNA Wondering about the plight of the rural population facing successive droughts which has to buy pulses, South Asia Network for Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) laments how no benefit of the price hike is reaching actual pulse farmers. While most link the current tur (pigeon pea) dal crisis with raging market prices, storage issues, hoarding and economics, a new study highlighting the making of the crisis - by South Asia Network...
More »More girls dying before age 5 than boys in India: UN report -Yoshita Singh
-PTI / Livemint.com India has the lowest sex ratio in under-5 mortality, with a ratio of 93 (93 boys die before age 5 for 100 girls that die by that age) United Nations: India is among the countries with the largest surplus of men and a worrying under-five sex ratio with more girls dying before the age of five than boys, according to a UN report. “The World’s Women 2015” report launched...
More »By 2030, India will account for 17% of world's under five deaths: UN -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India MEXICO: The United Nations has issued a dire warning to India over its abysmally high infant and maternal mortality rate. UNCEF has projected that if current trends of under-five mortality rate continue, by 2030 just five countries will account for more than half of all under-five deaths — India (17 per cent), Nigeria (15 per cent), Pakistan (8 per cent), Democratic Republic of the Congo (7 per cent)...
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