-The Economic Times Union Minister for Women & Child Development Maneka Gandhi wants to put an end to children consuming empty calories. Instead, she wants them to consume calories rich in nutrition, and her ministry wants to have sachets containing 600-1000 calories of nutrition for children. The plan, brainchild of Gandhi, suggests that the central government will supply the nutrients list and the state(s) can have them made. The sachet will bear...
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Worsening pollution: Delhi schools to remain shut for 3 days
-PTI New Delhi: As pollution levels worsened in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said schools in the city will remain closed till Wednesday and announced a raft of “emergency” measures to deal with the situation including ban on construction and demolition activities for the next five days and temporary closure of the Badarpur Power Plant. Emerging from an emergency cabinet meet, Kejriwal said the government will discuss with the Centre the...
More »What SC says: No automatic right to shoot -R Balaji
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Supreme Court had recently said security forces had no inherent right to shoot people, which suggests that yesterday's killing of the eight Simi operatives by Madhya Pradesh police went against that ruling. The court had held that even if a person was seen carrying weapons in a "disturbed" area, it did not automatically give the security forces the right to shoot him. Even the army had no blanket...
More »Dropout pill: Aadhaar tabs on all students -Basant Kumar Mohanty
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre plans to track every student enrolled in every private or government school in the country by their Aadhaar numbers to keep tabs on dropout rates. Those among the 26 crore students who do not have Aadhaar cards will be given a unique 18-digit number by which they will be tracked till they get their Aadhaar numbers. The idea behind the ID-based tracking system is to log the...
More »Encephalitis death toll in Odisha mounts to 76
-The Hindu BERHAMPUR: Personnel of the Health department as well as all other government officials in Malkangiri district of Odisha are continuing to fight menace of Japanese encephalitis. Death toll of children due to encephalitis in Malkangiri district rose to 76 in last 51 days on Sunday, with two more deaths. The two children who succumbed to the killer disease on Sunday were Sushila Padiami (2) of Daniguda village under Malkangiri block...
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