Thursday, 19 May, 2022
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Topic: NFHS

In rebuttal to WHO, Modi govt claimed 99.9% deaths registered. NFHS-5 pegs 2019-21 figure at 71%

Abantika Ghosh -
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.

Vir Das was right, there are 2 Indias, and they aren’t getting any closer together

TN Ninan -
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.

47.4% babies born in private sector via C-section, far above 14.3% in govt facilities, NFHS shows

Abantika Ghosh -
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.

Mamata has shocked Congress, but she needs more than anti-Modiism to go national

ThePrint Team -
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Anaemia, obesity on the rise in India as NFHS-5 reveals falling nutritional indicators

Mohana Basu -
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.

NFHS-5 findings make a case for continued investment in primary healthcare

V.K. Paul -
Effective counselling has resulted in women in 20 states being better informed of the side effects of various modes of modern contraception than before.

If India can look after pregnant women so well, why are more under-5 kids wasting & stunting

Shailaja Chandra -
When India can get bigger things such as tracking pregnant women right, why do nutritional deficiencies among under-five children remain insurmountable?

‘India doesn’t need 2-child law’ — NFHS data suggests no need to fear population boom

Mohana Basu -
Fertility rates have dipped across states, indicating India's population is stabilising. Experts point to several factors, including an increase in contraceptive use.

How Indian Army’s secrecy & unorthodox deployment fooled the Chinese in eastern Ladakh

ThePrint Team -
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Registration of deaths likely missed during Covid pandemic, NFHS-5 data indicates

Soniya Agrawal -
The latest NFHS-5 first phase data shows health insurance is still low in the surveyed states, and a worrying rise in stunting.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping | Representational image| kremlin.ru

Chinese economy is feeling the heat. Blame Xi’s political Lysenkoism, vaccination policy

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Smarting from the failures of his Great Leap Forward campaign, which hit the economy hard, Mao launched the 1962 war with India to rally the nation behind him.
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Forget Gyanvapi for a moment, Varanasi needs justice for a recent carnage: 2006 IM bombings

Congress Chintan Shivir to conclude today, CWC to give final nod to committees' recommendations

For long, Congress wavered on social justice. Now it’s waking up to BJP’s OBC politics

Economy

Congress supporters staged a protest against inflation in Ranchi on 10 May | ANI

As inflation breaks records, Modi govt plans to counter criticism ahead of anniversary & polls

Neelam Pandey -
While retail inflation hit an 8-year high of 7.8% in April, wholesale inflation surged to a 9-year high of 15.08% on the back of elevated food and energy prices in the same month.

Defence

Satellite image of the development on the site | Twitter | @detresfa_

China building ‘bigger, broader’ 2nd bridge at Pangong Tso that can carry armoured columns

Snehesh Alex Philip -
China's People's Liberation Army aims for multiple routes to counter any possible operations by the Indian forces on the southern banks of the Pangong Tso in the future.

National Interest

How Congress is like the Ambassador & why Indian politics needs a brand new set of wheels

Shekhar Gupta -
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.

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