Nearly 30% People In The World Are Overweight Or Obese

United States is home to the biggest chunk of obese population – 13 per cent, India and China together account for 15 per cent Considered to be one of the most compre...

India sees decline in maternal and child deaths

Two-thirds of the global decline in child deaths since 2000 occurred in just nine countries – India, China, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Afghani...

Reproductive rights and wrongs: How discrimination blights maternity care

Last week, Brazil becomes the first country to pay compensation to the family of a woman who died in childbirth as a result of negligence and discriminatory practices in ma...

India ranks 102 out of 132 nations on social development index

India ranks 102nd among the 132 countries on the Social Progress Index, a measure of human well being that goes beyond traditional economic measures such as GDP or per capi...

Climate Change This Week: Magma Mania, Dirty Fuel Dealer, and More!

How unusual has the weather been? No one event is “caused” by climate change, but global warming, which is predicted to increase unusual, extreme weather, is ha...

2014 Environmental Performance Index

India ranks 155th out of 178 countries in its efforts to address environmental challenges, according to the 2014 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). India performs the w...

India ranked 155th in global environment performance list at World Economic Forum

India has been ranked at a low 155th position in a global list that places countries on how well they perform on high-priority environmental issues.

The 2014 Enviro...

Amazon condom factory: A sustainable way to profit from Brazil's forests

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India among the world’s 83 countries which do not meet the minimum healthcare workers requirement.

A World Health Organization (WHO) report, recently released in Brazil, says that nearly 83 per cent of physicians in India are males.

The report, titled “A Un...