-The United Nations A United Nations online survey launched today seeks to provide insight into how to reduce risk and help persons with disabilities around the world cope with and prepare for disaster events. The first-ever survey of its kind, produced by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and partners, focuses on issues such as the ability to protect oneself and having sufficient time to evacuate before a potential disaster....
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UN children’s agency lauds Bangladesh’s vow to ending preventable child deaths before 2035
-The United Nations The United Nations children's agency today commended the Government of Bangladesh for committing to end preventable child deaths in the country before 2035, building on its success of lowering maternal and child mortality. "There's a lot to learn from Bangladesh. Between 1991 and 2011, under-five deaths fell by almost 75 per cent, thanks, in part, to its commitment to innovation and Knowledge-sharing," said UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director...
More »What the poverty numbers don’t say -Bhaskar Dutta
-The Indian Express What caused the steep fall in poverty reported by the Planning Commission? The evidence is mixed Earlier this week, the Planning Commission released estimates of the incidence of poverty in 2011-12. As in virtually the entire literature on the measurement of poverty in India, these estimates are based on data on per capita consumption expenditure collected by the National Sample Survey Organisation. The estimates show that there has been...
More »Students dine dangerously -Shuchismita Chakraborty
-The Telegraph The students of the government primary school at Rajiv Nagar continued with the practice of having midday meal sitting on railway tracks on Tuesday, punching a hole in the education department's tall claim on strictly monitoring the food scheme after the death of 23 children in Saran. Seven days after the meal tragedy, the students sat down on the railway line connecting R-Block and Digha in the afternoon to have...
More »Two out of three say UPA is corrupt-Rukmini S
-The Hindu Growing number believe that the BJP is better at handling corruption Two out of three people feel that the UPA-2 is corrupt and that corruption has increased over the last four years, while a growing number believe that the BJP is better at handling corruption than the UPA, according to the CSDS poll. Even though corruption is only the fifth most important issue for voters in the 2014 elections, according to...
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