There is drastic increase in number of TB cases the number has risen almost three times in the national capital. According to MCD report 19,865 TB positive cases were reported in 2007 as compared to 6,146 in 2006.TB cases have gone up due to over crowding and discontinuation of medicine. People who have been treated for TB are getting infected once again and the reporting mechanism of TB has improved. That is a lot of people are getting diagnosed in the early stages.The 65,305 new cases are of people showing clinical symptoms of TB and who are referred for further examination.

Menace of Bangladeshi infiltrators—Socio-economic impact of influx

During last three decades there has been a quantum jump in economic distress caused by growing unemployment all over the northeast, especially in Assam.

Caste, class, and community in India: an ethnographic approach

The anthropology of India has been dominated by an emphasis on caste that has inhibited an integrated approach to understanding class in India. Using an ethnographic approach that takes into account the symbolic and material aspects of caste and class, this article focuses on the attempts to form a "community" of potters among a large group of potter-artisans in central India.

Indian Politics: Wrong Foundations

In one sentence Indian polity could be surmised as a game of money and muscle with the big businesses and media lords aided by the intelligence playing the central role, while common people, as per the demands of any “democratic” rule, give popular legitimacy for the misrule by some vested interests.

Why Non-White Communities Could Be Hit The Hardest By Climate Change

National Public Radio presents the panel discussion "Covering Climate Change: Why Non-White Communities Could Be Hit the Hardest," as part of the UNITY '08 Convention. Writers, producers and editors will discuss how poor, predominantly ethnic communities around the nation have been struggling against bad water, poor air quality and other environmental hardships long before Hurricane Katrina.

Is the G-8 pledge for nations to halve greenhouse emissions by 2050 sufficient?

The agreement between leading industrial nations at the G-8 summit to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by 2050 will have very little if any effect on global warming. First of all, the agreement was not accepted by the two most populous countries in the world. With more than 2 billion people, India and China are both dramatically increasing their emission of greenhouse gases as they rapidly industrialize. They, like other developing nations, understand that energy is the No. 1 priority when the No. 1 struggle is against poverty.

President meets group of eminent women to discuss women's empowerment

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'Girl below 10 yrs raped every 13th hr'

The Indian National Policy for Children 1974 provides a framework for policy and planning for children.

IMI: lecture on Women Empowerment

International Management Institute organised a lecture on “Women Empowerment” given by Dr Rajeshwari

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Brooks, a self-described conservative and sometime practitioner of "comic sociology,"

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Abortions in rural areas are rampant because women in the countryside do not have access to sufficient family planning

Boards should make social responsibility a key issue

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues are being driven into the boardroom as never before.

Menace of Bangladeshi infiltrators-Socio-economic impact of influx

During last three decades there has been a quantum jump in economic distress caused by growing unemployment all over the northeast,

Human Land Use Restricts Ecological Services

In-depth studies of how human land use is having an ever greater impact on ecosystems over a period of three centuries are being carried out for the first time. This project,

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