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Total Matching Records found : 391In Haryana, Gurgaon tops literacy rate but has worst sex ratio -Varinder Bhatia
62. Faridabad's sex ratio was 826 in 2001. This figure rose to 873 in the 2011 Census. Gurgaon also recorded 73.1 per cent growth in population in the past one decade, hinting at largescale Migration. Mewat district recorded 38.7 per cent decadal growth of population and Faridabad followed with 32.5 per cent. As far as towns' population is concerned, Gurgaon town area figures second with 8,86,519 people while Faridabad has the maximum p
More...Indian dolphin, elephant among top 100 mammals facing extinction: Zoological society of London -Kounteya Sinha
densely populated areas of the world. It is threatened primarily by the damming of rivers for irrigation and electricity generation, which degrades habitat, isolates populations and prevents seasonal Migration. More than 20 barrages and 18 high dams have been constructed in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Megna river systems alone since 1956, and in the northern Ganges tributaries at least three of six subpopulations that were isolated by barrages have recentl
More...Girls interrupted -Charan Singh
) would rise from 1.1 per cent in 2010 to 10 per cent in 2060.
There are costs involved with prolonged bachelorhood. There also is a fear that scarcity of brides may generate new waves of female Migration from neighbouring countries with different cultures and customs and even such Migration may not be able to meet the need.
In the absence of such Migration
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India has highest incidence of diarrhoeal deaths: Study -Durgesh Nandan Jha
li, Mozambique and Gambia in Africa. Each site provided a censused population, using a demographic surveillance system (DSS) in which field workers visited each household to record births, deaths and Migrations two to four times every year, supplemented by weekly updates of births and deaths in children 0-59 months. Dr Dipika Sur, principal investigator, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, which was one of the study centr
More...More than 6,500 Indians languish in foreign jails -Arun Janardhanan
ns arrested on charges of killing two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast, has 121 Indian citizens in its prisons. The United Kingdom has 426 Indian inmates in their jails, thanks to a fast growing Migration of skilled and unskilled labourers. There are 155 Indians in the US prisons. The statistics, obtained through RTI by Kochi-based NGO Human Rights Defense Forum, shows 6,569 Indians are in foreign prisons. On Indian prisoners in 30 countries
More...Over 2,000 fewer farmers every day-P Sainath
, and even play a role in weaver suicides). The sufferings of others are as real. It is not as if the agricultural labourer or non-farm worker is having a great time. Both sections have seen distress Migrations - and suicides. (For that matter the owner of a small industrial unit in an urban city could be distress-hit). Their suicides are no less tragic. But it is vital to know who officially gets counted as a farmer. And who gets listed in the &lsquo
More...Adivasis’ dangerous journey into the urban jungle-Anumeha Yadav
i with the Delhi Police's help," said IG CID Anurag Gupta. The Jharkhand government has so far uploaded full details of 100 missing children. "We are trying to tackle adolescent girls' Migration through ‘Sabla', a scheme which focuses on vocational and leadership training for adolescent girls," said Mridula Sinha, Secretary, Department of Social Welfare, Women & Child Development. The scheme is operational only in seven o
More...The crisis in our community-Nilanjana S Roy
al violence are many. Some want the death penalty -highly problematic given the slow and unreliable justice system. Some suggest keeping women corralled at home, which ignores the reality of changing Migration flows, and the fact that many more Indian women join the workforce each year. Some demand castration of rapists, though there is little evidence to suggest that castration is a deterrent. And there are regular calls for more and better policing,
More...JPC draft report turns heat on NDA govt
ional Democratic Alliance (NDA) government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The JPC, in its draft report, said the NDA government in 1999 had to forgo revenue of Rs0 crore in the course of offering a Migration package for incumbent telcos to a revenue-share model. The approval and implementation was done when it was a caretaker government. The decision was, however, defended by the then government, which said it was taken well before the dissolut
More...PSU banks express reservation against usage of Aadhaar number for cash-transfers -Ahona Ghosh & M Rajshekhar
g on the verification ecosystem. One proposal from the banking regulator is to let the banks have their own systems and use the UIDAI-NPCI platform for a second check. Unnikrishnan of IBA says a Migration to the UIDAI-NPCI platform is inevitable. "It will happen, but there is a cost involved and it will take time," he says. Banks will have to replace the smart cards issued by them and handheld machines in circulation with new ones that
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