Teena Thacker

About 1.5 million children under five die of diarrhoea every year. While the highest number of deaths occur in Africa, of the total 38 per cent deaths that took place in South Asia in 2004, India accounted for the highest number of deaths. This has been revealed by a new report released by the United Nations and World Health Organisation (WHO).

C Shivakumar | ENS

About 75 per cent of the world's under-five deaths in 2008 took place in only 18 countries.
Of this, half of the deaths occurred in only five countries - India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and China

JAIPUR: The British High Commission along with an international NGO has invited the Pink City to COP 15 summit at Copenhagen in December this year. The reason: Jaipur has been adjudged as one of the cities which has a low emission record per capita.

The effects of climate change could lead to as much as a 5% drop in the GDP of countries in South Asia and Africa, including India, a World Bank report warned on Sunday. The report said the effects of a 2-degree Celsius rise in temperature due to global warming could put up to 400 million people at risk of hunger and leave up to 2 billion lacking enough water resources.

The prices of food crops like wheat, rice and maize will rise between 121 per cent and 194 per cent by 2050 due to climate change, according to a study.

This, coupled with decreased yields of these crops, will threaten food security of some 1.6 billion people in South Asia and render 25 million more children malnourished by 2050.