
Women more willing to donate organs posthumously in India
The Hindu
India is among a small group of countries where living organ donations far exceed deceased donations, despite relatively high public willingness to donate after death. An analysis of 2024 driving licence application data shows that women across most States were more willing than men to consent to posthumous organ donation. Yet, transplant data reveal a sharp gender imbalance among recipients, with men accounting for nearly two-thirds of organ recipients in 2023.

The Ottiyambakkam panchayat had an harrowingly difficult time keeping people from swimming in the deadly quarry with its protruding rocks under the water. There had been many deaths. And then nature intervened, and the fatal accidents stopped. An invasive, floating weed that is a bane of water sources everywhere, the water hyacinth is not just tolerated in the quarry but welcomed












