-The Business Standard China, India's nearest economic rival has the second best score in the world Despite steady economic growth and robust social sector spending, India's score in Global Hunger Index has returned back to the 1996 level raising questions over the speed at which it has brought down the proportion of undernourished people, underweight children and child mortality. According to the findings of the Global Hunger Index 2012 by the International...
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India performs poorly on global hunger index-Kirthi V Rao
-Live Mint India has failed to monitor trends in child undernutrition for more than 6 years, says GHI report India has performed poorly in reducing hunger, especially among children, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2012 report. “Given that the government of India has failed to monitor national trends in child undernutrition for more than six years, any recent progress in the fight against child undernutrition cannot be taken into account by...
More »Robert Vadra's land deals exposed, paid Haryana farmers less than circle rate
-CNN-IBN Just a day after Haryana government denied favouring Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra and DLF, CNN-IBN has accessed documents showing how Vadra bought acres of land in the Mewat region of Haryana below the circle rate. The documents suggest Vadra has been on a property buying spree in Haryana and had picked up acres of land directly from farmers in 2008 and 2009. Vadra's firm Real Earth Estates Ltd...
More »No end in sight to face-off between NHRC, J&K govt -Maneesh Chhibber
-The Indian Express The long-standing tiff between the National Human Rights Commission and the National Conference-Congress led government in Jammu and Kashmir on the issue of jurisdiction in cases involving alleged human rights violations is yet to be resolved. The latest flashpoint is the high court stay that the government has managed to get on NHRC proceedings in 34 pending cases of alleged human rights violations, most of them against security forces...
More »J&K woman’s death: Two SPOs held after protests -Bashaarat Masood
-The Indian Express SRInagar: A day after an elderly woman was allegedly beaten to death by the police after raiding her house in south Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested two of their men as well as the woman’s son-in-law for dumping a banned herb in her house. However, the two policemen have been booked for only minor offence, and no case pertaining to murder, assault and intrusion has...
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