-The Times of India Over 70% of India's population, or 100.41 crore face the risk of malaria infection. Around 31 crore, however, face the "highest risk" of getting infected by the vector-borne disease. According to the World Malaria report 2011, released by the World Health Organization (WHO), India has over 10 crore suspected malaria cases, but only 15.9 lakh could be confirmed last year. Of the confirmed cases, 8.3 lakh people were infected by...
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Malnourished baby dead, parents booked 6 months later for ‘negligence’ by Milind Ghatwai
Six months after she died, police in Bhopal have acted on the death of a two-year-old, malnourished girl. They have booked her parents, charging them with “causing death by negligence”. Activists say that this is perhaps the first instance in India where parents have been blamed for death caused by malnourishment. Adviser to Supreme Court commissioners in the right to food case Sachin Jain said the administration always tried to push malnutrition...
More »NHRC orders relief to kin of convict beaten to death in jail by J Balaji
The NHRC has looked into 45 such cases in the last 4 months The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has directed the Punjab Government to pay a relief of Rs.5 lakh to the family of murder convict Sukhchain Singh who died of injuries sustained due to beating by a warder of Amritsar jail on July 2, 2009. He had been lodged in the prison since September 22, 2004. The NHRC intervened upon...
More »Kudankulam plant being maintained in safe mode: Atomic energy board chief
-The Hindu All measures have been taken to maintain the safe mode of critical systems with skeletal staff at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in spite of work coming to a halt at the project site following protests, S.S. Bajaj, Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), said on Thursday. Interacting with the media on the sidelines of the 43rd annual conference of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (India), Dr. Bajaj said that...
More »Fragmented Bengal funds other states
-The Telegraph RBI governor D. Subbarao has expressed concern over Bengal’s low credit-deposit ratio, which means that funds from the cash-starved state are actually meeting the borrowing needs elsewhere. The erstwhile Left government used to blame banks for the skewed ratio. But bankers have blamed it on the poor credit absorption capacity of rural Bengal because of fragmented land holdings — a fallout of the land reforms. After a meeting with chief minister...
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