Two Wards in Alappuzha Cut Mosquito Breeding Sharply. Here Is What the Numbers Actually Show
An ICMR study recorded large falls in Aedes breeding after residents organised the work, though the figure now being quoted describes one ward. Mosquito control usually arrives from outside, as a fogging machine or a health worker with a checklist. In two wards of Alappuzha in Kerala, researchers tried the opposite. They asked residents to […]
Women Are Now Half of India’s Higher Education. In Engineering They Are Still About a Third
The new AISHE reports put the female share of STEM enrolment at 44 percent, though science carries that figure, not engineering. India released two years of higher education data in July, covering 2022-23 and 2023-24. The headline finding was that women now make up close to half of all enrolment. A second figure, on women […]