-TheNewsMinute.com Rupa Devi fell in love with the beautiful game. It was a strange quirk of fate, perhaps, that took Rupa Devi away from her first love: if she couldn’t play the game herself, she could at least be around people who did. Rupa Devi is the first woman referee from Tamil Nadu to be selected by FIFA. Rupa Devi fell in love with the beautiful game after she watched seniors in her...
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Winter monsoon set to quench southern states -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times India’s back-to-back drought is likely to end in winter with the weather department predicting higher-than-normal rainfall between October and December in the southern part of the country and normal rains in the rest, boosting prospects of the winter harvest. The rabi, or winter-sown, season is vital since it accounts for nearly half the country’s total food output. The forecast eases worries about water shortages in the nation’s 89 nationally important...
More »Public’s health is at peril, warns National Health Profile
A day before the Prime Minister of India left for a two-nation tour to Ireland and the United States this September, the National Health Profile 2015 was released by the Minister of Health and Family Welfare Shri JP Nadda. The report, which has presented a dismal picture of the state of public health, shows that cases of cancer is expected to rise in India by almost 15 percent from 11.5...
More »PM Modi’s foreign travel: what we spent and what we got -Rukmini S & Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu Last week, a Delhi-based Right To Information (RTI) activist, Lokesh Batra, finally got responses to his request for information on the public funds spent on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official foreign trips between June 2014 and June 2015. Mr. Batra was forced to write separately to every Embassy and High Commission in each of the countries the Mr. Modi visited, and yet some denied him the information on the...
More »Biraj Patnaik: time to diversify PDS, start giving pulses, oil, fruits, eggs -Shriya Mohan
-CatchNews.com India fares quite badly in the world when it comes to nutrition. It's ranked 55th among 76 emerging economies on the Global Hunger Index, 2014, lower than even Ghana, Iraq, Sri Lanka and Nepal. As many as 2.3 crore of the eight crore children below 6 years of age who attend Anganwadis are malnourished, according to a status report on the ICDS. Nearly 59% children under 5 are anaemic as are more...
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