Secretary, Dept of Drinking Water & Sanitation, in letter to health secretary suggested that change in NFHS-VI question was 'necessary to ensure chances of respondent bias are minimised'.
Union health ministry says preliminary inquiry into 35 complaints against Indian Institute of Population Sciences’ K.S. James has found 11 to be true. ‘Detailed probe underway’.
Only 1.4% of married Indian women surveyed in NFHS-5 (2019-2021) said their husbands had another wife or wives. Practice more prevalent in tribal-dominated districts.
NFHS-5 India report, based on fieldwork done from 2019 to 2021, was released Thursday. It gives death registration level as 83% for urban, 66% for rural households.
There is an India represented by Tamil Nadu, and another by Bihar. They are far apart on human development, but both belong to the same India on electricity and drinking water.
The national C-section rate is 21.5%, higher than what the World Health Organization terms “ideal", 10-15%, according to National Family Health Survey.
According to the official survey, India did hit a major demographic milestone with its total fertility rate falling to 2.0. This means the population is set to stabilise.
Effective counselling has resulted in women in 20 states being better informed of the side effects of various modes of modern contraception than before.
When India can get bigger things such as tracking pregnant women right, why do nutritional deficiencies among under-five children remain insurmountable?
General MM Naravane’s memoir—Four Stars of Destiny—reveals that he was left hanging by political leadership for more than two hours as Chinese tanks drove towards Indian positions.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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