Sex ratio

Political parties want the ‘woman vote’ but don’t want to share power with them read more

Stress can also affect the mother’s immune system, leading to changes that affect neurological and behavioural development in the foetus. read more

Khattar said 52,000 new industries had been set up in the state in the last five years and 4 lakh people had been employed in the private sector.   read more

After the recent summary revision of the electoral rolls, the total number of electors in the state reached 8.94 crore or 71.94% of the total population. Of them, 4.67 crore (52.25%) are men and 4.27 crore (47.74%) women. read more

Concerns about a national law on population revolve around two questions. Will it be coercive and will it further skew our already precarious sex ratio? read more

Sex ratio at birth indicates the gap between registered male and female births, calculated as the number of females per 1,000 males, and is recorded monthly by the health department. read more

Wazirpur, which received four stars last year, improved its ranking and is the only gram panchayat in the district this year with six stars. read more

The ministry, which relies on health ministry data to determine trends up to the district level, will now study more detailed data sets. read more

Chauhan said many villages in the region were thinly populated, and, therefore, saw the births of only one child in the three-month period. read more

Wildlife experts attributed best conservation practices as the reason behind the increase in the population by 36 in just four years. read more

While some forest officials attributed ST-16’s death to a heat stroke, others said administering the tranquilliser in the afternoon heat may have proved fatal. read more

Maharashtra’s health minister Eknath Shinde acknowledged that the meetings had not been held. read more

Heart disease and stroke accounted for 19.25% of all deaths in 2017, which is a 1.6 percentage points increase over reported deaths in 2016. Infectious and parasitic diseases caused 14.78% of all deaths; followed by respiratory ailments, which led to... read more

With just four elected Members of Parliament (MPs) in the last 40 years, women empowerment remains a distant dream in Haryana, which, for years, has remained infamous for its skewed sex ratio and high rates of crimes against women. read more

The award will be given by Delhi’s Pre Conception, Pre-Natal Diagnostics Techniques (PC-PNDT) cell to motivate families and boost the sex ratio in Delhi, which stood at 902 females born against every 1,000 males in 2016. read more