India's Hospitals Among The Best, Says Renuka Chowdhury

India's growing attraction as a medical tourism destination was the highlight of presentations made at the ongoing World Travel Mart in London. India's Minister for Tourism Renuka Chowdhury, who // inaugurated the India pavilion of the annual global tourism event, said: "Not only is India known ...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

... many people prefer to have male children. "This will check both foeticide and infant mortality," the minister for women and child development renuka Chowdhury told the Hindustan Times daily. Officials said the data would permit the government to focus efforts on areas with a large gap betwe...

India Plans Hospices for HIV Positive Women

...irs has announced that the federal government is planning to set up hospices for HIV positive women . Minister for Women and Child Development renuka Chowdhury said, "We plan to start hospices in villages for those women who are thrown out of their homes due to their HIV positive status. These women...

New Book Gives Gruesome Account of India Girl Killings

...o grapple for ideas, and this month announced plans to register all pregnancies. According to India's minister for women and child development renuka Chowdhury, the data would permit authorities to focus efforts on areas with a large gap between the number of pregnancies recorded and births. ...

Insurance Cover for Girl Child

...fare of Girl child, Minister of State for Women and Child Development, Smt. renuka Chowdhury said that Ministry had also proposed Conditional Cash Transfer Sc...lling sex ratio of girls in some of the States due to female foeticide, Smt renuka Chowdhury said that the Ministry was working on a multi-dimensional strateg...

Integrated Child Development Scheme

...cluding 4790 in rural areas, 805 in tribal areas and 523 in urban slums. This was stated by the Minister of State for Women and Child Development Smt. renuka Chowdhury in a reply to a question by Shri Janardhana Poojary in Rajya Sabha today. She further stated that the services provided to children b...

Women and Children Issues Should Get Priority in India

...d the mela to interact with these women group. Other eminent persons from various walks of life are also meeting these self help groups of women. Smt. renuka Chowdhury, Minister of State for Women and Child Development visits the mela every evening. Several programmes for children such as magic shows,...

Yoga and Meditation May be Helpful to Combat Chikungunya

...tation are not only less prone to the disease but also recover faster if they get an attack," Swami Sadyojatah of Art of Living said here. Said renuka Dugani, a physician from Hubli, one of the worst effected areas in Karnataka: "Many of my patients showed remarkable recovery soon after they underwen...

47 Percent Children Suffer from Malnutrition: Survey

...urished in India, with Madhya Pradesh topping the tally followed closely by Bihar and Orissa.// Minister of State for Women and Child Development renuka Chowdhury said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha Monday that the national average of children below three suffering from malnutrition had fallen f...

Renuka Chowdhury Stresses Importance of Bridging Gender Gap

... Newly appointed minister of state for women and child development, Ms renuka Chowdhury is enthusiastic about her new post and said that she would be urging the government// to declare the next decade as the "Girl Child" decade....

Renuka in Biological News

Plants give pests sock in the gut

...cations in generating a cheap and highly effective way of controlling crop pests. Other authors of the paper include Tibor Pechan, Srinidi Mohan, renuka Shivaji, Lorena Lopez, Alberto Camas, Erin Bassford, Seval Ozkan, Peter Ma, all at Mississippi State University; and W. Paul Williams, U.S.D.A. ...