Population has started to swell in Delhi’s suburbs. Gurgaon and Noida (Gautam Buddha Nagar) are among the top five places in India that recorded the highest decadal growth rate in population.

The infant mortality rate in Pakistan is very high and there has been no decline in malnutrition rate in children under the age of 5 over the past 30 years, health specialists agreed on Sunday.

Bijlipur (Punjab): For some time now, the village of Bijlipur has been attracting a slew of local news TV crews and even reporters from Canadian radio stations.

The India Human Development Report 2011 undertakes a disaggregated analysis of a large set of indicators and is unhesitating in its criticism of our failures in human development outcomes even while recognising that there is empirical evidence of achievement in many dimensions. The main fi ndings of the report point out that the states are converging on important indicators of human functioning and that the indicators among the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and Muslims are converging with the national average.

With the recent data suggesting a substantial drop in the Total Fertility Rate of India (TFR), the health ministry has decided to lay more emphasis on spacing rather than limiting the children. With this aim in mind, the Union ministry is all set to launch a new birth control intrauterine device (IUD) — Suraksha 5 — that gives infection free protection for 5 years.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and all states and Union Territories on a petition claiming that family planning scheme’s key component, sterilisation programme, has become a “failure” in the country with most of the operations proving unsuccessful or health hazards.

While issuing notices, a bench comprising Justices R.M. Lodha and H.L. Gokhale sought reply affidavits form the Union and the state governments within eight weeks to a PIL filed by Devika Biswas on the issue.

The 2011 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) was the sixth national-level demographic and health survey designed to provide information on demographic and maternal and child health in Bangladesh. The BDHS included a household survey of ever-married women age 12-49 and ever-married men age 15-54.

The girl child seems to be disappearing from the progressive and urban areas of Gujarat.

Women and impoverished, illiterate tribals fall prey to Madhya Pradesh’s overweening family planning zeal
Birth Control

Two prestigious projects started with much fanfare by the Punjab government under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) have failed to take off.

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