If you are not serious about non-communicable diseases, then this single piece of information is enough to scare you -- during 2019, almost two-third of deaths in India occurred due to such diseases i.e., NCDs. The newly released report by World Health Organization shows that out of the total deaths in 2019 in our country, about 28 percent were caused by cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), 10 percent by cancers, 12 percent by chronic...
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Effort on to end job cash freeze -Pranesh Sarkar
-The Telegraph Have assured Giriraj of transparency, says Bengal minister Calcutta: Bengal panchayat minister Pradip Majumdar has said that he assured his Union counterpart Giriraj Singh that enough initiatives had been taken in Bengal to ensure the 100 days’ job scheme has transparency while urging him to release funds under the scheme soon. “The Union minister told me the Centre wants transparency in the implementation of the scheme. I assured him that enough...
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-The Telegraph Leena Gangopadhyay, the chairperson of the commission, who has been touring north Bengal for the past couple of days, has inspected three prospective sites and will soon submit a report to the state women and child welfare department for the final nod Siliguri: The West Bengal Commission for Women has decided to set up a home for destitute girls and women aged 18 years and above in or around Siliguri. Leena...
More »Punjab reports nearly three-fold jump in stubble burning incidents in 9 days
-PTI/ The Hindu Business Line Total number of such cases has touched 2,625 so far this season Punjab has reported a nearly three-fold jump in farm fire incidents in the last nine days, with the total number of such cases reaching 2,625 so far this season. From September 15 till October 10 this year, the state had witnessed 718 stubble burning incidents. According to data from the Ludhiana-based Punjab Remote Sensing Centre, the state...
More »Results of a survey in 4 states reveals how MGNREGA protected the poor from income shocks during the pandemic
-Press release by Azim Premji University dated October 13, 2022 New Delhi & Bangalore, October 13: About 39 percent of all jobcard-holding households interested in working under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 did not get a single day of work in the Covid year of 2020-21. Also, on average, only 36 per cent of households that worked received their wages in 15 days, showed a survey of...
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