-IANS UNITED NATIONS: India has made progress on the twin fronts of reducing hunger and child mortality but is still short of development goals, two international reports say. Fewer Indian children under five are dying, with infant mortality rate coming down from 126 per 1,000 in 1990 to 53 last year, a UN report released in New York said. And according to a Food and Agriculture Organisation report released in Rome, between...
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Jumping red light? Get slapped with Rs. 15,000 fine under proposed traffic law
-The Hindustan Times Soon, motorists caught speeding, driving drunk or jumping red lights may not get away with a light fine and a few stern words from the traffic cop. The punishment would get harsher as the gravity of the offence increases - a Rs. 3-lakh fine and not less than seven years in jail for causing the death of a child; Rs. 5 lakh in penalty and three months in jail...
More »Discrimination even in death at Rajasthan crematoriums -Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu Jaipur: It is the Chandpole cremation ground in the heart of Jaipur city. Groups of people have come to perform the last rites of their loved ones. The mood is sombre. But the exercise, one will observe, is rather mechanical. Each family seems to know under which shed they have to perform the last rites. If they don't, they are directed to the right one by the workers at the...
More »Taste for waste -Soma Basu
-Down to Earth Entrepreneurs now see business opportunity in waste paper. The raddiwala employed with start-ups can be summoned to home with the click of a mouse or a phone call AMRINDER SINGH, 57, is a government employee living in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar. His neighbours say he has a big heart-he donates generously for religious functions and other community services in his locality. His domestic help, too, is all praise for...
More »Farmer Suicides: NHRC Raps State Over Report Delay
-The New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha Government's stoic silence over reasons that have driven farmers across the State to end their lives has drawn the wrath of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). With the Government not even bothering to submit a report in this connection as desired by the rights panel since last two years, the latter has served a six-week ultimatum to the Chief Secretary to comply with the...
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