A new United Nations report says that a radically simplified approach to ensuring access to HIV treatment for everyone who needs it could prevent 10 million deaths by 2025 and 1 million new infections annually. The so-called Treatment 2.0, says the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), could lower the cost of treatment, simplify treatment regimens, ease the burden on health systems, and improve the quality of life for people living...
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Land acquisition for DFC: 118 farmers' objections rejected
The land acquisition officer of Vadodara district has rejected 118 objections to the acquisition of large number of farmers' lands in Vadodara city area and the district, sources said here today. They had made a representation to the officer, who is the competent authority, in the past for not acquiring their fertile lands for the Special Railway Project Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) in Vadodara district of Gujarat. Private agriculture lands of...
More »NAC to okay food bill on Wednesday by Devesh Kumar
The National Advisory Council likely to approve on Wednesday the draft of the National Food Security Bill. The scheme will be rolled out in the 150 poorest districts first on the basis of a `notional universalisation.’ Rejecting the recommendation put forward by the EGoM, NAC, at its meeting held on July 1, settled for the distribution of 35 kg of grain, either wheat or rice, to every poor household, but...
More »Anti-Posco agitators reject compensation package
Anti-Posco agitators on Sunday burnt copies of the new rehabilitation package issued by the company and accused Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik of backtracking from his "promise" to visit the site for taking stock of the situation. Terming the package as meaningless, leaders of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) and others agitators said the residents of three gram panchayat in Jagatsinghpur district would "never allow" the mega steel plant to come up...
More »Rural masses in state more aware about RTI: CIC by Kshitiz Gaur
Chief information commissioner (CIC) Wajahat Habibullah on Sunday said rural people in Rajasthan are more aware about the Right to Information (RTI) Act. RTI is the only tool which compels politicians as well as bureaucrats to maintain transparency in their functioning. Habibullah was speaking at a seminar on How RTI is Useful To Eradicate Corruption from Politics organised by Citizen Council and PUCL. "The whole world is looking towards our...
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