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Agent Orange and the Politics of Poisons

Determined citizens are working to uncover “one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War era. Determined to end this silence, a group of Japan-based citizens including journalists, professors, and environmental activists have been gathering evidence and speaking out… Continue Reading →

Sterlization Deaths – स्वास्थ्य मंत्री के घर पहुंचे स्टूडेंट‌स पर पुलिस ने भांजी लाठियां

Bhaskar News|Nov 18, 2014, 19:29PM IST रायपुर। बिलासपुर में 19 मौतों के बाद  नसबंदी का मुद्दा गरम है। पुलिस की दमनकारी कार्रवाई इसे और गरम कर रही है। सोमवार की शाम जब विद्यार्थियों का एक समूह स्वास्थ्य मंत्री के यहां विरोध… Continue Reading →

Bombay HC – Notice to 35 Maharashtra Thermal Plants Over Safety Measures

Mumbai | Nov 15, 2014 Outlook The Bombay High Court has issued notices to 35 coal fired thermal power plants (CFTPP) in Maharashtra seeking their response to a PIL urging measures to deal with safety and occupational hazards. The notices,… Continue Reading →

Mumbai Malnutrition – Death by biscuit #healthcare

By Gitanjali Chandrasekharan & Yolande D’Mello, Mumbai Mirror | Nov 16, 2014, 12.47 AM IST Malnutrition isn’t a rural worry. Worse, in Mumbai, it’s not the lack of food but craving for junk that’s proving fatal. Sammrudhi Pawar is playing with her two-anda-half-year-old… Continue Reading →

Citizens across world oppose nuclear power, poll finds

The debate over nuclear energy is fiendishly complex, but one important factor is public opinion, and people in 24 nations across the world oppose it Nuclear power plants in the US, such as New Jersey’s Oyster Creek, are supported by… Continue Reading →

Dr Binayak Sen calls Sterilisation deaths as ‘ medical murders’ #Vaw

India’s sterilization deaths are “medical homicide,” says the country’s most famous doctor India has built medical infrastructure but services remain minimal.(Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee) Binayak SenDoctor and human rights activist In 2004, we performed a census of Chhattisgarh’s public hospitals that were equipped… Continue Reading →

Children’s Day : Stark reality of child health in India

Mumbai: It is Children’s Day today. As the nation celebrates the day, there is a need to analyse the real state of affairs that the children in the country face. In a picture that has not been a reassuring one, 13… Continue Reading →

Gujarat – Month old twin brothers die after TB vaccination #WTFnews

AFP Two twin brothers who were one-and-half month-old died today after Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccination were administered to them at a village in Surendranagar district of Gujarat today, their parents alleged. BCG vaccine is given to a new-born child to give him or… Continue Reading →

Manual scavenging still practised in developed Gujarat’

TNN | Nov 12, 2014, 03.21AM IST AHMEDABAD: The CAG’s report on Tuesday revealed that the prohibited practice of carrying night soil is still prevalent in the ‘developed state of Gujarat’. The auditor has cited cases listed in the 2011… Continue Reading →

Rajasthan – Banjaras pushed into their burning homes #WTFnews

  Heinous criminal acts perpetrated on the afternoon of 24th October, 2014 on the local Banjara community by hundreds of local men in Thanagazi district which affected the whole colony, and wherein children, women and elderly were pushed into their… Continue Reading →

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