भारत में विवाहित महिलाओं की मौत के पीछे आत्महत्या सबसे बड़ा कारण है.समाज और स्वास्थ्य से जुड़े मुद्दों पर रिसर्च करने वाली संस्था द लैंसेट के एक रिसर्च में ये बात सामने आई है.1990 से 2016 के बीच किए गए रिसर्च के मुताबिक दुनियाभर में आत्महत्या करने वाली महिलाओं में 37 फीसदी भारतीय हैं.
बीते दिनों में सोशल मीडिया में एक मुहिम चली.महिलाओं के यौन शोषण के विरोध में चली इस मुहिम को मीटू का नाम दिया गया.ये अभियान विदेशों में और भारत में भी काफी दिनों से चल रहा था लेकिन तनुश्री दत्ता के नाना पाटेकर पर छेड़छाड़ का आरोप लगाने के बाद से इसने भारत में जोर पकड़ा.इस अभियान में महिलाएं मीटू हैशटैग के साथ सोशल मीडिया पर अपने साथ हुए यौन उत्पीड़न की घटना को शेयर करती हैं.
बेटियों की प्रति हमारा नजरिया कितना भी विकसित क्यों न हो गया हो लेकिन उनकी शादी को लेकर आज भी वही नजरिया है.जितनी जल्दी लड़कियों की शादी कर दो उतना ही अच्छा है.अक्सर हमने मां-बाप को और खास तौर पर मां को यह कहते सुना होगा ,"हम लोग तो बड़े परेशान हैं हमारी लड़की के लिए तो कोई अच्छा लड़का ही नहीं मिल रहा.लड़की की शादी हो जाए एक समस्या हल हो जाए."
It’s been eleven years since the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (2006) came to being. And it’s been way longer than that, over 80 years, since the Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) was put in place. Yet, there still are innumerable little girls suffering at the hands of this evil. A recent survey reveals that there are almost 12 million married children, under the age of 10. And about 65% of them, close to 7.58 million, are girls.
When a child goes to the school, one of the most crucial things that parents are concerned about is their security, be it in the school premises or while commuting. Even for a school, providing secure transportation is of utmost importance. Managing large transportation fleets is not possible for any school and therefore hiring external agencies becomes imperative.
According to the "OECD Health Statistics 2014: How Does India Compare" report, the overall health spending accounted for only four per cent of the GDP in India in 2012, out of which only 33 per cent of health spending was funded by public sources. Further, health accounted for only 4.8 per cent of total government spending in 2012. India ranks extremely high even among other developing countries in out-of-pocket costs on healthcare.
The Facebook data breach raises urgent questions that need to be answered responsibly by our industry -- given its terrifying scale and impact. In today's world, data is a form of soft power, and it is essential for those who wield it, to use it responsibly so that consumer confidence isn't compromised.
The challenge is that, at an idea-generation stage, it can be difficult to draw a clear, bright line between whether data is being used for optimisation or for manipulation.
It does crush the pride of a nation to find itself ranked as low as 133rd in a global ranking of happiness.
Farmer suicides have been taking place across India for years now, and studies of rural distress reveal the deeply-rooted, tenacious causes, such as lack of irrigation, fragmentation of land, unsuitability of seeds and inadequate sources of credit.
New Delhi, Jan 31 Four-year-old Aashirvaad Kumar has had the hole in his heart fixed by the doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the country's premier government-run research and referral hospital, but he is still trying to the fix the hole over his head to find a shelter in the national capital's chilling winter.
