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WHO cautions India against slashing health spending

  Health sector ‘should not be seen as a black hole of expenditures’, says WHO director general Margaret Chan Nikita MehtaD. Ravi Kanth Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint The Narendra Modi government should not treat the health sector as a “black hole… Continue Reading →

Odisha- 5-km journey on cot to avail healthcare #WTFnews

5-km journey on cot to avail healthcare Post News Network Telkoi, Oct 18: The government’s claim of according priority on rural development seems to be hollow if the sorry state in many areas of this tribal-dominated block in Keonjhar district is… Continue Reading →

Shocking- Staff grooves to garba inside Ahmedabad hospital ICU, helpless patients look on

Zee Media Bureau Ahmedabad: In a shocking incident, staff members of a civil hospital here were seen on video performing garba inside the ICU ward. As per reports, the staff at the Sola Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, danced and performed garba… Continue Reading →

`Dal pe charcha’ to expose `Ar-har Modi’

Lucknow: A new political outfit from Lucknow has adopted a novel to protest against the food inflation. Spoofing Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s concept of `Chai pe charcha’, the Azad Bharat Congress has started `dal pe charcha’ to hold `nukkad’ discussions… Continue Reading →

In Odisha, no dal for the dalma , tribals in Kandhamal

In Odisha, no dal for the dalma Jayashree Nandi Bataguda (Odisha):   With pulses too expensive and unavailable on PDS, the urban and rural poor are relying heavily on starch for sustenance Women and men working on the hillsides is… Continue Reading →

An Open Letter to Pepsi – Thank you for mocking striking #FTII Students

   pic courtesy Sada Haq Nakul Singh Sawhney   – Independent Film -maker   Dear Pepsi, I am sure you’re aware that students of FTII have been on strike for over 125 days. They’re protesting the appointments of 5 members to the FTII… Continue Reading →

HIV Champion in India Struggles to Hold Ground

By Swati Sanyal Tarafdar Renuka Kotagiri, the founder of Cheyutha and an HIV patient herself, is feeling pretty down these days. In 2005 she won a major victory in getting the government to provide free ART medication. But now she… Continue Reading →

26 Indian Nuclear Scientists Die Mysteriously. Why Is The Country Quiet?

 by Vandita There have been a spate of deaths in India’s nuclear and atomic energy sector which are worrying but the government hasn’t given any security cover to the scientists working on its strategically important projects; in fact it describes… Continue Reading →

Lawsuits Mount Against Monsanto’s ‘Cancer-Causing’ Weedkiller

  Lorraine Chow | October 16, 2015 Looks like the cancer lawsuits against Monsanto are gaining country-wide momentum. Reutersreports that personal injury law firms around the U.S. are gathering numerous plaintiffs to build “mass tort actions” alleging that exposure to the company’s popular weedkiller, Roundup, causes cancer. Law… Continue Reading →

10 Punjab doctors ‘were paid crores in bribes by big pharma companies to recommend their drugs’

By MANJEET SEHGAL PUBLISHED: 00:22 GMT, 9 October 2015 | UPDATED: 00:22 GMT, 9 October 2015 The Punjab Medical Council (PMC) has sent notices to 10 doctors after income tax authorities pointed out that multinational pharma companies had paid them crores of rupees in bribes… Continue Reading →

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