-The Times of India PUNE: This year is not only in line to be the hottest on record globally but also in India. The country has lived through its hottest September, October and November this year, reveals India Meteorological Department's data going back to 1901. The countrywide mean temperature in November this year was 1.25 degrees C above normal, the highest-ever for the month since record keeping began. The mean minimum and...
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Is India actually free of polio? -Vidya Krishnan
-The Hindu Why New Delhi must not bask in the WHO’s polio-free certification and, instead, have an ambitious plan to eradicate polio-like flaccid paralysis. On November 30, the day India introduced an Injectable Polio Vaccine (IPV) in its routine immunisation programme, stating that it “will be an important step in the Polio Endgame Strategy”, a case of Vaccine Derived Polio Virus (VDPV) was reported from New Delhi. This was the second such...
More »Per capita nutrition supply in India among the lowest in the world -Dipti Jain
-Livemint.com India has one of the lowest per capita daily supply of calories, protein and fat, according to OECD, a club of rich nations In December last year, the government promised a 40% increase in the supply of subsidized grain to expand coverage of the food security law. Whether the target of higher food supply coverage will be accomplished is hard to tell, but data show how the supply of nutritious...
More »HIV cases dip, high-risk groups still a worry -Malathy Iyer & Sumitra Deb Roy
-The Times of India MUMBAI: When World AIDS Day is observed across the globe on December 1, India will enter the third, and perhaps the most perplexing decade of its HIVAIDS epidemic. The first 29 years were marked with victory as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) metamorphosed from being the deadliest word in public health to just another chronic disease such as diabetes or hypertension. that can be managed well with medicines....
More »Rationalist Narendra Dabholkar fought gender bias in temples -Shoumojit Banerjee
-The Hindu Pune: In 2000, he led a campaign demanding entry for women into the Shani Shingnapur temple. The trail-blazing activism by rationalist firebrand Narendra Dabholkar, who was killed by right-wing elements, and his Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti (MANS) to combat the ban on women entering temples was a vital phase in the Organisation’s untiring efforts to strive for gender equality in Maharashtra. While the struggle commenced with the usual raucous noises...
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