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What Caregivers Face While Taking Care of Loved Ones With Alzheimer’s or Dementia

by Lakshmy Venkiteswaran Watching a loved one wither away due to Alzheimer’s or Dementia is a gut-wrenching ordeal. And if you’re involved with the everyday care of that patient, it changes your life in ways you cannot even imagine.With barely-there… Continue Reading →

India performs poorly in sanitation and water accessibility 

Author(s): Jitendra  Date:May 12, 2015  A global index finds no significant correlation between GDP and performance as China and India, the two fastest growing Asian economies, are nowhere in the top five category India has performed abysmally by occupying the 93rd… Continue Reading →

Jal Satyagraha 32 days on is peeling off soles, not determination

PL SIGN PETITION AND SHARE WIDELY https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Prime_Minister_of_India_Stop_forcible_and_illegal_submergence_in_Omkareshwar_dam/ After 32 days of protesting in water – Jal Satyagraha is peeling off soles, not determination  Sushmita Samaddar  May 12, 2015 In the Ghogalgaon village of Madhya Pradesh, 213 protesters have been standing in water… Continue Reading →

Explosion rocks nuclear power plant in New York #WTFnews

  Explosion rocks nuclear power plant in New York Indian Point nuclear power facility “safely shut down” after transformer failure, company says in a tweet. 09 May 2015 23:59 GMT | Environment, US Indian Point management said the facility was in safe and… Continue Reading →

Kudankulam nuclear -plant reactor trips, stops generation

IANS  |  Chennai  May 10, 2015 Last Updated at 14:40 IST The first 1,000-MW unit of Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) stopped generation on Saturday evening after the reactor tripped, the Power System Operation Corporation Ltd. (PSOCO) said on Sunday. According to… Continue Reading →

India among nations with largest urban child survival gap

VIDYA VENKAT 6 ‘The Hindu India has also scored poorly in the Mother’s Index Rank standing at 140 out of 179 countries. Photo: P.V. Sivakumar India also scores poorly in the Mother’s Index Rank standing at 140 out of 179… Continue Reading →

Pregnant 10-year-old rape victim denied abortion #WTFnews

Mother reported in January 2014 that stepfather was sexually abusing child Catholic country only allows abortion if pregnancy is ‘life-threatening’  Paraguay’s strict abortion laws only allow the procedure under life-threatening circumstances. Photograph: Jorge Adorno/Reuters/Corbis Irma Oviedo in Asunción and Jonathan Watts… Continue Reading →

In rural Gujarat, 60% mothers die few days after delivery #WTFnews

Ishita Bhadra, TNN |  VADODRA: Dahod resident Ganga (name changed) went to a private doctor when she suffered from breathlessness and giddiness in the ninth month of pregnancy. She was given medicines and not treated for any other complications. A private… Continue Reading →

India -one of the worst places in the world to be a mother

India Slips Down Motherhood Index JOANNA SUGDEN It’s getting tougher for mothers in India, according to a global ranking of the best and worst places to be a mom. India scored 140th place out of 179 countries in the charity… Continue Reading →

Heart attacks kill more CRPF men than Naxals

Prafulla Marapakwar,TNN | May 11, 2015,  Between January 2009 and December 2014, while 323 jawans were killed in various Naxalite attacks, 108 died on account of malaria, 642 after a heart attack and 228 were cases of depression-driven suicide. MUMBAI: Data relating… Continue Reading →

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