Women

Brick Bats

DELHI Migrants might be causing uproar in some parts of the country but photo-journalist Harish Tyagi sees their lives in an entirely different light through his lense.

Publication Date:

24/03/2008

Author(s): Shalini S. Sharma

Source: India Today (New Delhi)

Tags:

Uranium, Bricks, Workers, Women, Children, Radiation, Haryana, Jharkhand, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh

Industry

A commitment beyond the market

At ITC, CSR is built into its businesses.

Publication Date:

23/03/2008

Source: Business Today (New Delhi)

Tags:

Livestock, Afforestation, Watershed Development, ITC Bhadrachalam Paperboards, Women, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Education, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal

Health

Women physicians as vital intermediaries in colonial Bombay

The pivot around which the improvement of maternal health revolved was the Indian woman doctor and her growing presence from the 1900s was to be seen at hospitals and welfare centres in the Bombay presidency, promoting knowledge of more hygienic birthing methods and safe infant care.

Publication Date:

22/03/2008

Author(s): Mridula Ramanna

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

43

Issue:

12

pp:

71

Tags:

Women, Maternal Health, Health Care, Health Personnel, Child Health, Family Planning, History, India, Mumbai

Seminar on child marriage, female foeticide held

HAILAKANDI

Publication Date:

19/03/2008

Source: Assam Tribune

Tags:

Women, Maternal Health, AIDS, Family Planning, Assam

Environment

Andhra Pradesh now in high growth trajectory

Andhra Pradesh has been galloping ahead on the road to progress and prosperity at incredible speed in the last four years.

Publication Date:

16/03/2008

Source: Week (Kochi)

Tags:

Food Crops, Irrigation, Development, Housing, Farmers, Women, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Andhra Pradesh, Debt

Economy

Reviewing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme

This article presents results on the participation of rural workers in the National Rural Employment Guarantee programme based on a pilot survey of three villages in Udaipur district in Rajasthan.

Publication Date:

15/03/2008

Author(s): Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha, Shylashri Shankar

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

43

Issue:

11

pp:

44

Tags:

Women, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Unemployment, India, Rajasthan, Udaipur (D), Statistics

Health

Spectrum of heart disease and risk factors in a black urban population in South Africa (the Heart of Soweto Study)

The Heart of Soweto Study aims to increase our understanding of the characteristics and burden imposed by heart disease in an urban African community in probable epidemiological transition. The authors aimed to investigate the clinical range of disorders related to cardiovascular disease in patients presenting for the first time to a tertiary-care centre.

Publication Date:

14/03/2008

Author(s): Karen Silwa, David Hansen, Lucas Ntyintyane & et al

Source: Lancet

Vol:

371

Issue:

9616

pp:

915

Tags:

Women, Heart Diseases, Non Communicable Diseases, South Africa

Industry

Ladies special

In 2006, Delhi decided to experiment with the supplementary nutrition programme: it handed over the scheme to NGOs. Swami Sivananda Memorial Institute (SSMI) was given the charge of the Jahangirpuri resettlement colony in western Delhi. It had to cater to about 14,000 children and women. The NGO formed a self-help group of women from the community it served. Some of the employees had their children getting food under the scheme. The kitchen was located within the community to ensure accountability. Lady Irwin College decided the menu.

Publication Date:

14/03/2008

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Nutrition, Women, Children, NGO, Delhi

Environment