-The Hindu Business Line Coonoor: Despite lower production in the South, the country’s overall tea output in the first four months of the current calendar has increased by 8.08 per cent over the same month last year due to a significant rise in the North. “The Tea Board has now released the data for April and our compilation shows that India produced 172.99 million kg (mkg) till April compared to 160.06 mkg...
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Bihar, Gujarat, Rajasthan lag in curbing infant deaths -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The steady decline in infant deaths in Indian states appears to be faltering in some while progressing well in others, according to fresh data for 2014 released by the Census office based on an annual sample survey. Some of the more backward states like Assam, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh did well in bringing down infant deaths, but Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand showed an alarming...
More »Bad blood: 2,234 get HIV after transfusion -Vidya Krishnan
-The Hindu No action taken against hospitals or blood banks, says RTI activist. In the last 17 months alone, 2,234 persons across India have been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while getting blood transfusions. The maximum number of such cases — 361 — was reported from Uttar Pradesh due to unsafe blood transfusion practices in hospitals. Just last week, a three-year-old boy from Assam’s Kamrup district, admitted to the Gauhati Medical College...
More »Digital vans all set to take e-governance to rural areas -Yuthika Bhargava
-The Hindu 66 vans will go to 657 districts and cover 13 lakh km by March 2017 The government will roll out a new campaign on Monday under which 66 digital vans, equipped with Internet and audio-visual facilities, will go to 657 districts by March 2017 to increase awareness about various e-governance services in rural and semi-urban areas. “The aim is to reach out to more than 10 lakh citizens and register over 1.5...
More »Assembly elections 2016: One in three MLAs have criminal record -Avienaash
-The Hindu An analysis of 812 MLAs across the five states where elections were recently conducted. A third of all the MLAs elected through the recent elections have criminal charges filed against them, says an analysis done by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR). The firm collected and analysed data for all the 812 MLAs elected in the recently-concluded polls in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Puducherry. State-wise...
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