Newswise Location Channel: India

Expert: Dispute with Canada puts India's relations with the entire West in jeopardy

University of Delaware — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:05:55 EST

IT Peer Advice May Diminish the Management Labor Pool

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:50:36 EST

It is only natural that, when students consider career options, they ask friends, family, and colleagues in their prospective fields for advice. They may hear about job opportunities, wage expectations, career paths, hiring processes, and more. In the end, that information may inspire and excite, or it may turn students off from the field entirely.

Rutgers Expert Available to Comment on Prevalence of Violence Against Women During Conflict in India

Rutgers University-New Brunswick — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:55:35 EST

Seeing "New India" with Indian Studies Center of Chulalongkorn University, an Expressway to Connect Thailand-India

Chulalongkorn University — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:55:23 EST

Chulalongkorn University's Indian Studies Center serves as a hub of connection and cooperation between Indians and Thais. It is also a storehouse of knowledge and information about India, including ancient India, contemporary India, and new India in different dimensions, which encourages Thai people to adjust their views of India, reduce prejudices, and focus on looking for clear opportunities to form collaboration with the "New India."

New book sheds light on adult mortality in India

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 08:05:56 EST

A new book provides an in-depth analysis of adult mortality patterns in India and addresses crucial issues related to public health and policy.

Darwinism expunged from India's school textbooks

SciDev.Net — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 20:20:58 EST

Science educators in India are urging the government to restore material on Darwinian evolution which has been removed from science textbooks on the grounds that the study load on schoolchildren needs to be lightened after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Climate change may keep India from achieving its sustainable development goals

PLOS — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:00:00 EST

Heatwaves in India are increasing in frequency, intensity and lethality, burdening public health, agriculture, and other socio-economic and cultural systems. A study published in PLOS Climate by Ramit Debnath at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and colleagues suggests that heatwaves made more likely by climate change may impede India's progress toward its sustainable development goals.

Comment les soins de sante primaires peuvent-ils aider a combler les lacunes dans le traitement de l'epilepsie? Un voyage a travers l'Andhra Pradesh, Inde

International League Against Epilepsy — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:05:06 EST

Le role des soins de sante primaires dans l'identification, le diagnostic et le traitement des personnes atteintes d'epilepsie est de plus en plus important. Cependant, les attitudes societales et la stigmatisation entourant l'epilepsie peuvent constituer des obstacles majeurs a l'amelioration des soins.

'Ragpickers' of Mumbai use entrepreneurship to find meaning, study shows

University of Notre Dame — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:20:19 EST

A new study from Dean Shepherd, the Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business considers meaning-making in the face of difficult dirty work by examining the "ragpickers" in Mumbai, India. These members of the lowest caste in Indian society live in the slums and dig through trash for food and necessities. And yet, they manage to embrace hope, destiny and survival.

Increasing education opportunities for girls could help reduce preventable deaths in children under five

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:05:56 EST

An IIASA study shows that maternal education, and particularly secondary education, plays a significant role in reducing deaths in newborns and children under five years of age in both rural and urban areas of India.

Mayo Clinic opens patient information office in India

Mayo Clinic — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 02:05:41 EST

Mayo Clinic has opened a patient information office in Mumbai to assist patients who wish to make appointments at Mayo Clinic locations worldwide. The office staff, fluent in Hindi and English, will help patients, their families and physicians who refer patients to make appointments at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London.

Mistaken fossil rewrites history of Indian subcontinent for second time

University of Florida — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:20:36 EST

Scientists discovered the first-ever Dickinsonia fossil in India two years ago, changing our understanding of how the continent came to be. Now, new research shows the "fossil" was just a beehive all along, changing our understanding for a second time, and the original scientists now support the new findings.

Como puede la atencion primaria de salud ayudar a cerrar la brecha en el tratamiento de la epilepsia? Un viaje por Andhra Pradesh, India

International League Against Epilepsy — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:20:59 EST

Un equipo de investigadores visito dos centros de atencion primaria de salud en Bhimaravam para evaluar la atencion proporcionada a las personas con epilepsia a traves del sistema de atencion primaria de salud.

Using games to promote women's health and wellbeing in India

Oxford University Press — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:00:30 EST

A new paper in Oxford Open Digital Health, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that it may be possible to use mobile game apps to induce young women to make active decision choices to improve their health and welfare.

Using deep learning to monitor India's disappearing forest cover

Ohio State University — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:45:39 EST

Using satellite monitoring data, researchers have developed a deep learning algorithm that could provide real-time monthly land use and land cover maps for parts of India.

How can primary health care help to close the epilepsy treatment gap? A journey through Andhra Pradesh, India

International League Against Epilepsy — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:10:48 EST

Hours from the nearest city in India, down a pothole-studded road framed by fish farms, primary care centers in Andra Pradesh provide service to tens of thousands of people. How do these centers care for people with epilepsy, and what challenges do they face?

Taking Freight Trucks Electric Would Have Big Economic and Environmental Benefits for India

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:05:45 EST

Diesel-fueled freight trucks play an outsized role in producing India's total greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions. While the country has promoted policies to transition to electric vehicles for public transportation buses and cars, batteries that can power such large trucks have been too heavy and expensive to make their electrification possible. A new study shows that advances in battery technology and dramatically decreased battery costs in recent years have changed that. With the right policies and incentives, battery electric trucks would be more affordable to operate than diesel, and India could become a world leader in producing electric vehicles.

Assumptions about the lethality of air pollution in India may be exaggerated

University of Toronto — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:05:42 EST

India has among the highest levels of air pollution in the world, and nearly every Indian lives in areas with fine particulate matter levels well above PM2.5 -- the level considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Creating 'political economy of hope' at Pakistan-India border

Cornell University — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:05:15 EST

Pakistani nationals of the Hindu faith migrate to India based on religion, caste, culture and history - and lately Indian government officials all the way up to the prime minister have been encouraging them to "return," according to Natasha Raheja, assistant professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S).

Selective abortion of girls occurs -- for different reasons -- among Indian and Chinese diaspora

University of Toronto — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 16:40:20 EST

The study authors, health researcher Catherine Meh and Prof. Prabhat Jha from the Centre for Global Health Research, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, previously established that selective abortion of females in second and third pregnancies was widespread and growing within India.