Category Health Care
IBOYAIMA LAITHANGBAM Irom Sharmila, who has been on hunger strike for the past 13 years demanding repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, donated Rs. 4 lakh to the International Red Cross shortly before she was… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Jyotika Sood Date:Mar 11, 2014 Benefits of government schemes and policies go to big farmers, shows survey undertaken by CSDS on behalf of farmers’ association Farmers interviewed said they are incurring repeated losses because of unseasonal rains, drought… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Alok Gupta More than 200 people in 14 villages near Roro hill in Jharkhand are dying slowly because of an abandoned asbestos mine Asbestos dust from the defunct mine has turned the Roro hill white (Photos: Alok Gupta) During a… Continue Reading →
Today across India, people continue to suffer and die unnecessarily due to poor access to affordable and effective health care and due to a range of social and economic determinants that promote ill-health and disease. Approximately 1.83 million children… Continue Reading →
Balakrishnan Rajagopal | Opinion/Columns, Indian Express, March 12, 2014 The 2013 law on manual scavenging does not go far enough. No city worth its name wants to be seen as a den of injustice and exploitation. Cities compete to show… Continue Reading →
Subodh Varma,TNN | Mar 11, 2014, 06.09 AM IST In Gujarat, shortage of doctors at primary health centers is 34% but shortage of specialist doctors like pediatricians and gynecologists at community health centers reaches a jaw-dropping 94%. NEW DELHI: One key… Continue Reading →
March 11, 2014, Kamayani Bali Mahabal aka Kracktivist The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) identified health and health related development schemes as a “killer application” for UID in the form of a unique… Continue Reading →
By Shalini Singh Story Dated: Monday, March 10, 2014 15:47 hrs IST Soni Sori wants to live, but, she feels that the government wants to kill her in pursuit of justice: Sori says she may enter politics to give voice… Continue Reading →
Kamayani Bali Mahabal aka Kractivist India is home to the largest number of children in the world,significantly larger than the number in China. The country has 20 percent of the 0-4 years’ child population of the world. The number of… Continue Reading →
PRAFULLA DAS Nachika Linga, who has been underground for more than four years, is in the `most wanted’ list of Odisha police and is expected to appear in public on Tuesday. Nachika Linga, leader of Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS),… Continue Reading →