-PTI Chhapra/ Patna: Violent protests erupted in Chhapra in Bihar on Wednesday where 20 children died after consuming mid day meal in their school. According to television reports, people armed with sticks and rods set blaze a bus and damaged public property. Nine more school students died today due to food poisoning after consuming mid-day meal at a government primary school in Bihar's Saran district taking the death toll to 20, official...
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Bihar midday meal horror: 22 children die in Saran, 50 students fall ill in Madhubani
-PTI PATNA: A day after deaths due to contaminated midday meal at a government primary school in Saran district, about 50 children of another government school were taken ill on Wednesday after they were served food under the scheme in Madhubani district of the state. The food was served to students of Navtolia Middle School, Bisfi, about 22 km from here. The students alleged that the meal had a dead lizard in...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Even as the Election Commission plans consultations with political parties in the first week of August on a recent Supreme Court order seeking framing of guidelines for parties' poll manifestoes, senior commission officials are in a dilemma on how to define a "freebie" in the first place. The poll watchdog plans to sound out all recognized national and state parties in the first week of August...
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-The Telegraph New Delhi: The World Health Organisation wants India's public to give up Bollywood songs as caller tunes on their mobile phones and replace them with short health messages from superstars of India's entertainment industry. The global health agency today launched what is being dubbed as the world's first attempt to promote health campaigns via caller tunes, drawing on the voices of 10 personalities from Bollywood and other entertainment sectors. Amitabh Bachchan's...
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