-The Times of India MADURAI: While conventional schools strive hard to produce 100% pass in state board examination, a special school for visually impaired children in Sundararajanpatti has produced centum results quite convincingly. This is not first time it has achieved this feat. It has been doing so for the last 18 years. In the SSLC examination results announced on Friday, all the 23 visually impaired students who appeared for the examination...
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As Delhi sizzled, ozone reached alarming level -Neha Lalchandani
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The prolonged heatwave in Delhi since May 18 not only saw extremely high temperatures ranging between 44 and 46 degrees but also led to the development of a dangerous pollutant that has become an annual feature in the capital lately. In the last week of May, levels of ozone saw a massive increase with a similar rise in levels of particulate matter making it worse. Institute...
More »The Neglect of Health, Women and Justice-AK Shiva Kumar
-Economic and Political Weekly A report on the 2013 deliberation of the Kolkata Group at its 10th workshop which focused on healthcare, the status of women and social justice in India. A K Shiva Kumar (akshivakumar@gmail.com) is convener of the Kolkata Group workshops which are organised by Pratichi (India) Trust, the Harvard Global Equity Initiative and UNICEF India. At the 10th annual Kolkata Group workshop in February this year, 40 policymakers, development practitioners,...
More »Bastar: How democracy lost a generation -Jaideep Hardikar
-The Telegraph Faraspal, Chhattisgarh: The Salwa Judum was a failure, both to its opponents and the man who was its face. "I shall repent the Salwa Judum's failure my entire life," Mahendra Karma had told a Dantewada journalist last year, months before being assassinated by the rebels last week. The 62-year-old tribal Congress Leader wasn't referring to the extortion, murder and rape charges against the anti-Maoist militia - he considered them "collateral damage"...
More »Advani props up Shivraj Singh Chouhan, runs down Narendra Modi -Suchandana Gupta
-The Times of India GWALIOR: Barely two weeks after he embarrassed BJP by saying the party lost Karnataka due to "opportunistic" politics, L K Advani sought to run down Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi suggesting his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan deserves more credit. Advani reiterated his argument that Chouhan's achievements rank higher as he is the CM of a "bimaru" (laggard) state, while Modi only improved economically well-off Gujarat. "He...
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