-The Business Standard China, India's nearest economic rival has the second best score in the world Despite steady economic growth and robust social sector spending, India's score in Global Hunger Index has returned back to the 1996 level raising questions over the speed at which it has brought down the proportion of undernourished people, underweight children and child mortality. According to the findings of the Global Hunger Index 2012 by the International...
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India performs poorly on global hunger index-Kirthi V Rao
-Live Mint India has failed to monitor trends in child undernutrition for more than 6 years, says GHI report India has performed poorly in reducing hunger, especially among children, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2012 report. “Given that the government of India has failed to monitor national trends in child undernutrition for more than six years, any recent progress in the fight against child undernutrition cannot be taken into account by...
More »Arvind Kejriwal and McCarthyism of the uncorrupted-Vivian Fernandes
-CNN-IBN A kind of McCarthyism seems to be operating in the country. Just as the US Senator who gave the term its name saw communists lurking everywhere in the early 1950s, Arvind Kejriwal sees corruption behind every deal. He wants electricity consumers in Delhi not to pay bills, claiming that they are over-stated. He cites the cut in tariff which the former chairman of Delhi's electricity regulatory commission, Berjinder Singh, had recommended....
More »The wait for a new passport -Sweta Dutta
-The Indian Express Ten kilometres from Jodhpur city, on a sultry afternoon under a flapping tent, a baby girl is born to Sadhu and Radha. People crowd around and peer into the tent to congratulate the couple. Someone in the crowd says, “The first Indian among us, she should be named Bharati.” The suggestion is met with nods of approval and cheers of “Bharati”. Over the last one month, the makeshift tent...
More »Court acquits 2 Kashmiris of terror charge, leaves police red-faced -Aneesha Mathur
-The Indian Express Families of Ahmed and Iqbal claimed they were detained in Jammu. The Special Cell had alleged that the ‘terrorists’ had been arrested outside Dilli Haat in South Delhi carrying arms On April 20, 2007, Mohd Shafi’s son Shabbir had gone on his regular trip to Jammu from their home in Bhadarwah, Doda District, to buy utensils for their crockery shop. When he did not return, Shafi went to Jammu...
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