-The Times of India BHOPAL: Taking a cue from Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's Amma Unavagam (mother canteen) and Odisha chief minister Navin Patnaik's Aahar Yojna, the Madhya Pradesh government led by Shivraj Singh Chouhan is planning to launch a subsidised meal programme for the poor in the state. On the plate will be a healthy and filling 'thali' that will come for just Rs 10. The chief minister is expected...
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1.4 million lives lost in India due to air pollution in 2013: Study -Atul Thakur
-The Times of India India lost 1.4 million lives to air pollution in 2013, while in China the toll was 1.6 million, estimates a World Bank report released on Thursday. The report, released by the World Bank and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, shows that in 2013 more than five million deaths worldwide were attributed to health conditions caused by air pollution. About 60% of them were in the world's...
More »PM Modi's big four cabinet ministers show frugality at refurbishing, others generous -Nidhi Sharma
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Big Four ministers in the Narendra Modi government — finance minister Arun Jaitley, home minister Rajnath Singh, foreign minister Sushma Swaraj and defence minister Manohar Parrikar — haven't spent a paisa on office improvement. But junior ministers and less-heavy weight ministers, including those affected by the recent Cabinet reshuffle, have been keener on doing up their workplace. ET's RTI questions on office decoration expenses revealed office improvements...
More »Average cost of type-1 diabetes management: 27k/year -Shailvee Sharda
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Seeing their child in tears each time an insulin pen pricks the belly isn't the only pain parents of a type-1 diabetic child have to go through. The cost associated with management of the disease hurts equally, if not more. A middle-income family spends an estimated 18% of family income on the disease. The findings are from a study conducted by the department of endocrinology at Sanjay...
More »NHRC seeks more teeth, clashes with Centre, gets SC's support -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre and National Human Rights Commission clashed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday over the panel's plea to make its recommendations in human rights violations cases, including those by the armed forces, binding on the Centre and state governments. "Unless the recommendations of the human rights panel are given binding status, the whole exercise of conducting an inquiry or investigation by a body like NHRC...
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