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India’s next big challenge: From welfare delivery to human developmentThe National Family Health Survey 2023-24 reveals India's success in expanding welfare delivery and essential service access, reaching near...- India's crime rate falls 6%, cybercrime crosses 1 Lakh cases: SBIIndia reports a decrease in overall crime, attributed to public investment, digitization, and enhanced surveillance. Cybercrime, however, i...
- Time to walk and cycle the talk: Unsafe roads and broken footpaths are worsening India’s obesity crisisCommuting in Indian urban centers is riddled with obstacles, where inadequate sidewalks and hazardous road conditions push people towards c...
- Private hospitals drive surge in C-section deliveries across IndiaCaesarean sections are now the norm in Indian private hospitals, accounting for over half of all births. Eastern and southern states show p...
- India records progress against child marriage, gender violenceNew data reveals child marriage rates are falling in India. Women aged 20-24 married before 18 dropped to 20.1%. Spousal violence also decr...
- 90.6% hospital births, 96% plus vaccinations: NFHS-6 reflects India's "accelerated progress" in family health parametersIndia's National Family Health Survey-6 shows significant improvements in maternal and child health. Vaccinations and antenatal care have i...
- From psychology to surgery, how China plans to cut down belly fatChina's new guidelines to standardise obesity diagnosis and treatment aim to tackle the escalating health crisis, with over half of adults ...
- Economic Survey 2024: Social media, screentime & unhealthy food habits of the youth are Indian economy's big problemsThe Economic Survey presented by Nirmala Sitharaman highlights social media, screen time, and unhealthy food habits among Indian youth as s...
- Why Indians need to shed weight for the developed economy goal"Obesity is emerging as a serious concern among India’s adult population. According to National Family Health Survey 5 (NFHS-5), the percen...
- Global Hunger Index exaggerates measure of hunger, has multiple problems, say Health Ministry sourcesIn the Global Hunger Index, 2022, India ranked 107 out of 121 countries, much behind its South Asia neighbours, with the child wasting rate...
- India's overall TFR declines but 5 states yet to achieve replacement-level of fertility: NFHS-5According to the report, India has made significant progress in population control measures in recent times with the Total Fertility Rates ...
- Covid impact: Indians are now more obese, hypertensive and prone to diabetesIncidentally, the surge has been more pronounced among the urban dwellers. One-third of the urban men and women surveyed were found to be o...
- NFHS survey finds more women than men in India"With this, we can say India moves in the league of the developed countries - as the sex ratio crosses 1000," a health ministry official sa...
- India's population is stabilising as total fertility rate declines across statesOf the 17 states analysed in the NFHS-5 data, except for Bihar, Manipur and Meghalaya, all other states have a TFR of 2.1 or less, which im...
- Sharp rise in bank accounts operated by womenIn 10 states and union territories, 80-90% of women account holders run their accounts themselves. Even in Nagaland, which is at the bottom...
- Over 2 lakh smartphones, tablets procured by 8 states for anganwadis: Official dataThe information recorded by the anganwadis would be shared with the supervisor, who will then feed it into the database server.
- Women now have more say in money matters, 38% own house or land: SurveyThe 38% jump in women with bank accounts is complemented by the fact that 84% married women in the age of 15-49 years are participating in ...
- Proportion of overweight men in India doubled in 10 yrs: study20.7 per cent women in the country were found to be overweight or obese during NFHS-4 in comparison to 12.6 per cent during the NFHS-3.
- India got healthier in the last decade, finds National Family Health SurveyThe population rate is also a showing positive change, according to the new set of government data gathered during the fourth phase of Nati...
- Govt survey shows improved sex ratio, decline in infant mortality rateThe National Family Health Survey -4 (NFHS-4) for 2015-16 unveiled by the Health Ministry was conducted after collecting information from 6...
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