-Press release by Food and Land Use Coalition dated 10 January 2020 India can ensure healthy diets for its growing population, improve livelihoods and plug waste by adopting better food and land use practices New Delhi, January 10, 2020 – With a population projected to reach 1.5 billion people by 2030, and climate risks threatening food security, livelihoods, water supply and human health, India needs to urgently shift to sustainable food...
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Over 600 infants died in Rajasthan, Gujarat hospitals last month: 10 points -Harsha Kumari Singh/ Jimmy Jacob
-NDTV The BJP, which initially targeted the Congress over the infant deaths in Rajasthan, was faced with a similar situation in Gujarat. Jaipur: Over 600 babies died at six major hospitals across Rajasthan and Gujarat in December last year, agencies reported amid outrage over the alleged lack of life-saving equipment in government medical institutions. The first reports of the kind emerged from the JK Lon Hospital in Rajasthan's Kota, where 100...
More »Modi govt likely to slash school education budget by Rs 3,000 crore citing funds crunch -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in A sum of Rs 56,536 crore was sanctioned to the school education department in 2019-20, from which the finance ministry is likely to cut Rs 3,000 crore. New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is likely to cut the school education budget for 2019-20 by Rs 3,000 crore on account of a “funds crunch”, ThePrint has learnt. Highly-placed sources in the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry — which oversees education — said...
More »27 students across 10 IITs ended their lives in five years: RTI
-The Indian Express As per the data provided by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, IIT Madras tops the list with suicides by seven students during this period. Twenty seven students across 10 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country have committed suicide in the last five years, reply to a Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed. As per the data provided by the Department of Higher Education working...
More »India is a country with pervasive inequality, pockets of deep deprivations and vulnerable populations -Shoko Noda
-The Indian Express The 2019 Human Development Report points to the limits of economic growth in lifting all boats. It also offers a way forward. Grappling with Delhi’s poor air quality for these last couple of months, I have become aware of a stark difference in the way I cope with air pollution, and the way many others do not — because they cannot. Despite the growing evidence detailing the catastrophic impact...
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