-The Times of India NEW DELHI: With the recent murder of RTI activist Bhupendra Vira's, the death toll of those using the transparency law to target corruption and malpractices has gone up to 56. In fact, there has been more than 311 instances of harassment of citizens including murder, attacks and intimidation from the time the law came into force in 2005, according to an analysis by Delhi-based advocacy group CHRI. Reports...
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4 kids die due to malnourishment in Rewa, MPHRC asks for report
-Hindustan Times Rewa/ Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) has taken cognizance of four malnourishment deaths reported over the last three months in Rewa district. MPHRC has also asked for a detailed report from chief medical and health officer (CMHO), Rewa SK Tripathi on the malnutrition deaths. Three of the children who died were girls. One of them died just a couple of days back.Deaths of 62 children over five months in...
More »The End TB strategy -Soumya Swaminathan
-The Hindu The Global TB Report 2016, recently released, has revised the estimates for the tuberculosis (TB) burden in India upwards. The country has 27 per cent of the global burden of incident tuberculosis and 34 per cent of global TB deaths. For the year 2015, the updated estimate of incidence (new and relapse TB cases per year) is 2.8 million cases. India diagnosed and notified 1.7 million incident TB patients...
More »Janani Suraksha Yojana pays dividends: Study -Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu ‘It has reduced socioeconomic disparities in healthcare’ A new study brings in first conclusive evidence of the role played by Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) in reducing ‘socioeconomic disparities’ existing in maternal care. The JSY was launched in 2005 as part of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) to improve maternal and neonatal health by promotion of institutional deliveries (childbirth in hospitals). According to a working paper by Ruchi Jain (NCAER), Sonalde Desai...
More »Delhi's homeless - remembered only in winter -Bharat Dogra
-TheHoot.org Every winter stories are run about how the homeless need more shelters. During the monsoon and the heat – media silence. On World Homeless Day, BHARAT DOGRA argues for less seasonal coverage The homeless constitute the poorest section of our urban population and they live pretty close to where the media is based. Some of the highest concentrations of homeless people are within a 10 kms radius of the media hub...
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