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Scientist Offers Monsanto $10M to Prove Him Wrong on Ominous Findings in GMO Soy

Scientist Offers Monsanto $10M to Prove Him Wrong on Ominous Findings in GMO Soy By Justin Gardner on November 9, 2015 Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai is so confident about his research on Monsanto’s genetically modified soy, he is offering to sign over his $10… Continue Reading →

Mumbai – BMC’s vasectomy programme fails to find many takers #HealthCare

Mis-conception: Compared to 4,661 in 2008-09, only 424 men underwent the procedure in 2014-15 Despite Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) propagating and promoting family planning and birth control measures, the civic body’s vasectomy (male sterilisation) programme has witnessed a steep downfall since its inception in 2008. According… Continue Reading →

Gujarat – separate anganwadis for Dalit children #WTFnews

In Hajipur’s two anganwadis, which take in children between six months and six years, untouchability is one of the first life lessons they learn  Written by RITU SHARMA | Patan | At Anganwadi No. 159 (left), meant for Dalit children. (Express Photo… Continue Reading →

Women on Reproductive Strike

By Joseph ChamieReprint |     Joseph Chamie is an independent consulting demographer and a former director of the United Nations Population Division. NEW YORK, Oct 29 2015 (IPS) – Women are having fewer than two children on average in 83 countries, representing nearly half… Continue Reading →

#BeefPolitics – Punish ‘ MORAL POLICING’

Press Statement   The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), now in session at Delhi, has  issued the following statement:   Punish ‘Moral Policing’   The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the Hindutva elements who sought to… Continue Reading →

Medico Friend Circle (MFC) statement on escalating challenges to health in India

  Medico Friend Circle is an organization of committed physicians, experts from academia and activists from civil society.  We have worked over forty years on various aspects of health in India.  Ever since the Indian state embarked the neo-liberal pathway… Continue Reading →

India – Public healthcare in the sickbed, while Private healthcare flourishes

   Public healthcare in the sickbed POORNIMA JOSHI Long road to recovery: A sick woman being carried on a cot from Vazhaippadi (at 2,800 ft) to the nearest primary health centre at Kammanthurai, 10 km away. Photo: The Hindu Archives… Continue Reading →

India – Diversion of funds mars tribal welfare plans

Diversion of funds mars tribal welfare plans Diversion of funds mars tribal welfare plans In spite of the development and welfare plans and programs implemented since Independence, the tribals of our nation remain the most marginalised group. There are many… Continue Reading →

British medical journal Lancet to take Indian PM Modi to task for ignoring health sector

  By Kounteya Sinha, TNN | 22 Oct, 2015, 11.14AM IST   MEXICO: The world’s most revered medical journal – “The Lancet” has lambasted prime minister Narendra Modi for ignoring India‘s health sector and has warned that India is on the verge of… Continue Reading →

Chennai – 6 year old writes to President of India on #Beefban

From A.D.Aarush, Nahar Ashiyana, Kazura Garden I street, Neelankarai, Chennai 600115 To The President of India, New Delhi Respected President Ji, Namaste. I’m a 6 year old boy, studying in Class one. My grand mother told me that there are… Continue Reading →

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