2013 Urban Youth, India Towards a Youth Agenda in Policy and Practice / Padma Prakash 2 3 Towards a Youth Agenda in Policy and Practice across the country. An IMF paper [Aiyar and Mody 2012] has pointed to the huge demographic advantage of some of the poorer, heavily populated states in the country. In 19912001 the high growth states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat had a dependency ratio o...

© 2018 Indian Dermatology Online Journal | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow A 16‐year‐old male from Bihar had confluent hypopigmented plaques along with erythematous succulent papules on the chin, trunk, and shoulders for the past 8 years. There was relative sparing of axillae, suprapubic, and inguinal regions [Figures 1a‐c]. He had a history of kala‐azar. Skin biopsy and smear showed numero...

Sodium stibogluconate (SSG) in the dose of 20 mg/kg body weight daily intramuscularly for 20-30 days is recommended by WHO as the first line drug for Indian visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Relapses following therapy and unresponsiveness to the higher doses of SSG are still a problem in north Bihar. Serious toxicity of SSG including myocarditis, sudden death and renal failure have also been reporte...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL), commonly known as kala-azar in Indian subcontinent is a major public health problem and >90% of cases are from India, Bangladesh, southern Sudan, Nepal and north-east Brazil. VL affects more than 1,00,000 persons every year in India and occurs epidemically and endemically in well-defined areas in the eastern parts of the country, mainly Bihar, West Bengal, the easte...

Morphometric characteristics, length-weight relationships (LWRs), and condition factors (K) were studied for five indigenous fish species belonging to different families (Barilius barila Hamilton, Cirrhinus reba Chanda nama Mystus bleekeri Day, Clupisoma garua Hamilton), from the River Ganga in Bihar, India. A total of 557 individuals collected seasonally September 2021 August 2022 using a mono...