-Outlook Patna: As many as 111 children have died of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in Bihar this year till October, according to a report released by the National Vector Borne DISEase Programme Directorate. Quoting the report, Secunderabad-based neurologist Dr P Nagabhushana Rao said 111 children died, while 279 cases of AES and two of Japanese Encephalitis were reported in the state this year. Rao was speaking at a function organised jointly by the...
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UP: 8 More Children Succumb to Encephalitis, Toll 569
-Outlook Gorakhpur: Eight more children succumbed to encephalitis taking the death count from the viral DISEase to 569 this year in eastern region of Uttar Pradesh, health officials said today. The children died in BRD Medical College Hospital here, they said, adding that one child from Gorakhpur succumbed to the DISEase yesterday, while rest of seven deaths occurred on Sunday and Monday. Forty eight people with symptoms of encephalitis were admitted to BRD-MCH...
More »Where do Indians defecate? -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth Half of India's population defecates in the open. In all probability, they will continue to do so for the next 10 years By the time you read this article, some 600 million Indians must have taken that first call of nature. But for most, it must have been very unusual: to take that hesitant and humiliating step out of their homes to defecate in the open. Everyday, an...
More »Schools have no room to grow -Shreya Roy Chowdhury
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: About 54% of school principals in Delhi have postgraduate degrees and over 77% have less than a decade of work experience, found government-authorized "5% sample checking of Delhi DISE (District Information System for Education) data" over 2012-2013. The study, which covers 258 of Delhi's schools (municipal, government, private-aided and unaided), has found over 1,100 vacant teaching posts in just the schools covered by the survey....
More »Church voice in farm vs green debate-Ananthakrishnan G
-The Telegraph Thiruvananthapuram: The Centre's move to implement an ecology panel's report on conservation of the Western Ghats has provoked a call for a 48-hour civil disobedience agitation by the Catholic Church in Kerala, starting Sunday midnight. The Church claims the K. Kasturirangan report, notified on Wednesday, will hit the livelihoods of farmers living in the "high ranges" - foothill areas bordering the forests - and force them to relocate. Green activists deny...
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