P K Ray an eminent immunotoxicologist and director, Bose Institute, Calcutta, spoke to Amit Nair on the various issues related to human health

The United Nations Funds for Population Activities (UNFPA) is in the process of designing and implementing a comprehensive population programme for India. They will allocate US $100 million for the

Seventy-four developing countries, where the population of those under 15 years is one-third of the total will double their population within 30 years or less. This is in spite of death rates having

DNA studies suggest that a mere 500 people moving out of Africa could have populated the rest of the world

The picture that emerges in this water rich country is indeed frightening. And even more worrisome is that nobody is doing anything about it

Russia s population is declining at an alarming rate

The ecological balance of the islands of Galapagos is being threatened by population growth,

Demographers say world population will decline and one fifth of it would be above 50 years by 2050

India is the second most populated country in the world. In 195 1, the National Family Welfare Programme was launched with the objective of reducing the annual birth rate, by AD 2000, to 21 per

The mere knowledge that mosquitoes are the carriers ofa number of Diseases like malaria, filariasis and dengue is not enough to check the spread of vector-borne diseases. P K Dits, director of the Pondicherry-based Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC

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