-The Hindu India has the highest number of pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths among children globally, reports the International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The 2015 annual report of the IVAC reads like a repeat of last year’s report card, despite the progress the country is making to accelerate immunisation. With 2,97,114 deaths, India is once again at the top of the list of countries with...
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JNU student with cerebral palsy completes PhD -Kritika Sharma Sebastian
-The Hindu A student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) suffering from severe cerebral palsy has become the only student with the severe disability to complete a Ph.D from the varsity. Akshansha Gupta, who hails from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh, is suffering from 95 percent disability but managed to complete his thesis on ‘Brain and Computer interface’. JNU Vice-Chancellor Sudhir Kumar Sopory awarded Mr. Gupta the Ph.D in a special ceremony. Cerebral Palsy affects...
More »Mintu Devi’s magic wand -Priyanka Kotamraju
-The Hindu Business Line As the Right to Information Act completes 10 years, we examine how RTI has changed people’s lives, become a byword for democracy, and helped alter the relationship between citizen and state Mintu Devi’s relationship with the ration shop changed the day she filed an RTI. In the jhuggis of New Seemapuri, situated on the northeastern edge of Delhi, she is a legend. The 37-year-old mother of four is...
More »UNEP lauds pesticide-free farming in Kerala -KA Martin
-The Hindu Kuruvai village in Palakkad credited with replacing pesticides with agroecology Kochi (Kerala): The success of a group of farmers in Kuruvai village in Palakkad district’s Vadakkencherry panchayat in cultivating paddy without chemical pesticides has come in for praise from United Nations Environment Programme. It finds a prominent place in a book on replacing highly hazardous pesticides with agroecology brought out by Pesticide Action Network International. The book was released at the...
More »'One in Five Delhi Schools Doesn't Have Fire Safety Clearances'
-Outlook New Delhi: One out of every five Schools in the national capital does not have the periodic fire safety clearance certificate, according to a review conducted by the Delhi Fire Services which received the highest number of fire- related calls in the past 10 years this Diwali. "At least 20 per cent of the Schools in the city – mostly the ones run by the government or municipal corporations – have...
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