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This note examines recent trends in infant mortality in India, based on summary reports from the Sample Registration System. We find evidence of slowdown, pauses, and reversals in infant mortality decline in large parts of India in 2017 and 2018. In urban areas, the infant mortality rate stagnated at 23 deaths per 1,000 births between 2016 and 2018. Worse, overall infant mortality increased in the poorer states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. One possible interpretation of these findings is that the demonetisation experiment in late 2016 and the subsequent econ...

New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): The Supreme Court has allowed a plea to make the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) a party in connection with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and lawyer, Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, who has sought certain directions, including two-child norm policy, to control the country's growing population.

Vaccines bring us closer Dr Madhulika Jonathan (The writer is Chief of Field Office for UNICEF, Assam. She can be contacted at pmalhotra@unicef.org) "Get the COVID-19 vaccine so that you can be safe to ensure your children receive routine immunization. It will shield them against preventable diseases." – This World Immunization Week, I urge all parents to act, to protect. Vaccines are among the greatest advances of modern medicine, saving millions of lives worldwide. Getting the COVID-19 vaccine will not only play a major role in ending this devastating pandemic, but will allow you are p...

The decision not to have a kid is personal⁠ — but the social pressure against the choice is all-pervasive Business Insider India 28-02-2021 Kavita Majumdar © Pixabay The decision not to have a kid is personal⁠ — but the social pressure against the choice is all-pervasive There are a huge number of young couples choosing not to procreate for a variety of reasons ⁠— sometimes at the cost of finding themselves at the receiving end of 'concern' and/or 'reprimand'. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have found that even a single less child per family can sa...

A migrant worker in Ahmedabad on May 19. | Amit Dave/Reuters In 1998, APJ Abdul Kalam, a scientist and administrator associated with India’s missile programme as well as the Pokhran-II nuclear tests, co-authored a book titled India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium. It had a simple message: India would be a superpower within the next two decades. As predictions go, this was extremely bold. In 1998, India was a poor country, unable to reach even average global standards of human development. How would it suddenly leapfrog to superpower status? However, instead of bein...