1,06,421 women have been extended benefit of Janani Suraksha Yojana launched in the state for promoting institutional delivery.

In 1947 when India got freedom from the alien British rulers the population of the country was much less than 30 crores and the agricultural production of the grains was only 3 crore metric tones, qui

"DUE to the illegal acts of persons like the convicts, the sex ratio is declining day by day in the country...

Toeing the US line appears to be an essential prerequisite for receiving aid from it. The Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium for aids prevention programmes in Africa has learnt this the hard way

Bangladesh government recently

A special technology mission is being set up by the government for states that have unsatisfactory population control records. The states are Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Assam, Bihar and

In the past 15 years, Mexico has halved its birth rate

A two and a half year gap is ideal between births for the health of the babies

The United Nations' Population Fund (UNFPA) has denied reports that the emergency reproduction health kits sent to Albanian women, running away from the war in Kosovo, contained abortion pills. The

Compelling evidence has been found that the Peruvian government health workers used threats, physical coercion, misinformation and promises of food to meet sterilisation quotas among the poor, rural