-Press release by UNICEF.org Ahead of G7 summit, UNICEF appeals for US$1.2 billion to meet urgent needs of 8 million children at risk of death from severe wasting NEW YORK, 23 June 2022 — Almost 8 million children under 5 in 15 crisis-hit countries are at risk of death from severe wasting unless they receive immediate therapeutic food and care &NDAsh; with the number rising by the minute, UNICEF warned today as...
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Tribal woman leader is NDA pick for President -Smriti Kak Ramachandran
-Hindustan Times The announcement came hours after 17 opposition parties decided to field former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, currently with the Trinamool Congress, as its consensus candidate, after its first three choices demurred. Droupadi Murmu, the former governor of Jharkhand, will be the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) nominee for the July 18 Presidential election, and most likely the next President of the Republic. The decision to nominate her was taken at the...
More »At the centre of job creation -KR Shyam SuNDAr
-The Hindu The government should re-establish its role as the principal employment generator With his announcement that 10 lakh government jobs will be provided over the next 18 months on a “mission mode”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent four messages. One, the creation of employment is indeed a problem and can no longer be hidden from the public discourse. Two, the private sector, especially modern sectors such as the service and manufacturing...
More »88% of Over 9,000 Punjab Farmers Who Died by Suicide in 18 Years Were Debt-Ridden: Study -Vivek Gupta
-TheWire.in The Panjab Agriculture University study examined deaths by suicide among farmers between 2000 and 2018 in six districts of the state. Chandigarh: As many as 9,291 farmers died by suicide between 2000 and 2018 in six districts of Punjab, a Panjab Agriculture University (PAU) study published in the latest edition of Economic and Political Weekly has revealed. The districts surveyed were Sangrur, BathiNDA, Ludhiana, Mansa, Moga and Barnala. Heavy debt &NDAsh; most incurred...
More »To Rubbish WHO’s 2020 COVID Death Estimates, India Used Flawed Data, Analysis -Shreegireesh Jalihal and Tapasya
-TheWire.in * On May 5, 2022, the WHO estimated that 100.51 lakh people died in India in 2020. Of this, it estimated 8.30 lakh were COVID-linked deaths. * In its May 5 press release rejecting the WHO figures, the Union health ministry claimed that 81.20 lakh people died in 2020 &NDAsh; even lower than the number estimated to have died in 2019. * But the health ministry was wrong by a long margin...
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