Health
94 Million smokers in India, 14 million with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseas
PUDUCHERRY: The habit of smoking is on the rise in India, even as the trend is registering a steady decline in the Western countries, an expert has said.
World Health Organisation has estimated that there were around 94 million smokers in India, Dr K H Kisku, Head of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the Pondicherry [...]
150 million rich produced 4.5 times more carbon emissions than the 800 million poor Indians
Greenpeace calls for pollution tax on India’s 150 million rich
France24.com, 13 Nov 2007
India’s wealthy consumers, who make up a fraction of its 1.1 billion population, are fuelling the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and should be required to pay extra tax, an environmental watchdog said on Tuesday.
Some 150 million Indians, splurging on luxury goods and air [...]
55 percent women anaemic, 40 percent kids underweight: NFHSreport
More than half the women in India are anaemic and one in three child is underweight.
‘Anaemia is disturbingly common among adults. 55 percent of women in India are anaemic and 43 percent of kids below the age of three are underweight,’ reveals the final report of the National Family Health Survey – III (NFHS-3), released [...]
80% of people living below $ 1 in South Asia are in India
India’s failure to meet the target of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) will fail the world, a coalition of NGOs said on the eve of half-way period for the MDGs.
Adopted on July 7, 2000 at a United Nations summit by 189 countries, the coalition under the banner of Wada to Na Todo Abhiyan urged Prime Minister [...]
80% of people living below $ 1 in South Asia are in India
India’s failure to meet the target of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) will fail the world, a coalition of NGOs said on the eve of half-way period for the MDGs.
Adopted on July 7, 2000 at a United Nations summit by 189 countries, the coalition under the banner of Wada to Na Todo Abhiyan urged Prime Minister [...]
Millions breathe cancer-causing air in India: report
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Millions in India breathe air loaded with cancer-causing chemicals and toxic gases present at levels that are thousands of times higher than permissible limits, an independent report said on Saturday.
India, one of the most polluted countries in the world, does not even have a standard for many harmful chemicals and gases, and [...]
2 % for agriculture, where more than 65 % of the Indian works
In India, government policies lead to terrible toll in rural suicides, spurred by market reforms
Summary:
You will be surprised in the budgetary provision, not more than 2 percent has been allocated for agriculture, where more than 65 percent of the population works… In the last few years, the average budgetary provision from the Indian government for [...]
