India has emphasised inclusion of adaptation as a part of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). For understanding adaptation requirements, we need to understand and value climate change impacts first. This preliminary assessment tries to estimate the cost of global climate change impacts for India.
Maputo — Cholera has spread to the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, the provincial governor, Abdul Razak Noormahomed, told a press conference in the provincial capital, Quelimane, on Tuesda
Around 300 persons including children and women of a locality are said to have been suffering from diarrhoea at Mataur village, located in Sector 70, Mohali.
KARACHI: Clean drinking water and better sanitation — the two key reasons whose absence exacerbate health indicators and spread diarrhoea — are still hard to come by in Sindh, it emerged on Sunday.
The Centre will soon launch an action plan against diarrhoea and pneumonia in four States, including Rajasthan. The aim is to end preventable child deaths from these two by 2025.
The Lancet presents the most recent update on the global, regional, and national causes of death. Against a backdrop of increased global improvements in life-expectancy, death rates for some causes – including drug use and liver cancer – continue to rise.
KARACHI: A latest report prepared by the provincial government vis-à-vis the drought situation in Thar shows that 311 children under five years of age have died between December, 2013 and November
