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World ill-prepared for bird flu: WHO A World Health Organisation factsheet on the H5NI virus, or avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, answers frequently asked questions about the disease More... Suman's storyPremchand has always used his women characters as the lens through which society is critiqued. A reading his 'Sevasadan' in English translation almost 90 years after it was written brings home the fact that little has changed: women are still striving to control their own destinies More... Missing mothers and grandmothersA lush book of photographs of Indian women in the colonial period focuses on the women we all know -- the freedom fighters, the social reformers, the artists. But where are the ordinary women -- our mothers and grandmothers? More... Poverty in India increasingly region-, group-specific, says 'Social Development Report'A pathbreaking new report assesses development issues like poverty, unemployment, health and sanitation, urban governance, decentralisation, communal relations and how far women and marginalised groups have progressed across the social indices. It finds that the spatial map and social base of poverty in India have significantly changed over time More... Bihar fails India's elementary education test, but its kids are brightAccording to the latest 'Annual Status of Education Report', while elementary school enrolment levels in India's villages are high across the country, there is a lot of scope for improvement in school facilities. Most urgent is that attention needs to be paid to the learning component at government schools More... India, China's resource consumption on the rise: 'State of the World' reportA recently released report by the Worldwatch Institute indicts India and China for being extremely high consumers of the world's resources and looks for alternative solutions to the problem More... The richer the district, the poorer the sex ratioA study by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics establishes a clear correlation between the number of sonography centres and decline in child sex ratio in Maharashtra. The average sex ratio for districts with more than 100 sonography centres is 901 and for districts with less than 100 sonography centres it is 937 More... Financing urban housing a major challenge says UN-HABITATA new report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme warns world governments of a worsening urban housing crisis if they cannot come up with the money to build 96,150 houses per day for an additional 2 billion city-dwellers by 2030 More... The world's poor evaluate progress on the MDGsA new report by ActionAid International asks rural people in 18 countries two crucial questions: Have the rights and freedoms of people in developing countries been enhanced in the process of realising the Millennium Development Goals? And have the burdens on the poor diminished over the past five years? More... Human Development Report 2005: Plea for better aid, trade and security policiesIn a ten-year review of the Millennium Development Goals, the UNDP's annual development report card calls for swift and dramatic changes in international aid and trade policies, and better conflict resolution methods to fulfil the promises made by world leaders at the Millennium Summit five years ago More... Give rural poor control over ecosystems to fight poverty: WRI reportWith proper management and the incentives that come with control and accountability, ecosystems could generate enough income to lift the rural poor out of abject poverty, says a new report by the World Resources Institute More... 644 farmer suicides in Maharashtra since 2001, says TISS reportA comprehensive socio-economic investigation into the issue of farmer suicides in Maharashtra by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences finds that while the victims hailed from diverse class, caste and income categories, the reasons for their poverty and indebtedness were remarkably similar More... |
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