-Huffington Post The heartbreaking story of the parents who jumped to their death in Delhi following the death of their 7-year-old son who succumbed to dengue after being Turned away from two major city hospitals has shaken the public health establishment. Union health minister JP Nadda has ordered an enquiry into the incident. Just last month, a man was made to wait for his infant son's dead body because he couldn't pay...
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More arhar import to beat price rise
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government on Friday swung into action on the rising prices of major pulses, particularly arhar, and took a string of decisions to enhance supplies. Within hours after the Times of India report, the government decided to import another 5,000 tonnes of arhar to stem the prices which have been spiraling in the past few months. "At a high-level meeting held here today (Friday), the...
More »A visionary on water issues -R Umamaheshwari
-The Hindu Ramaswamy R. Iyer, a water policy expert who wrote extensively for The Hindu, saw rivers as inextricable parts of the lives of communities. Ramaswamy R. Iyer passed away on September 9 in Delhi after a severe bout of viral fever. The water policy expert, who last held the position of an honorary research professor at the Centre for Policy Research, earlier served as Secretary of Water Resources in the Central...
More »Doon Turning to organic food -Shivani Saxena
-The Times of India Dehradun: The organic food craze is slowly gripping the hill state capital with stores offering the healthy variety mushrooming across the Doon Valley over the last one year. Doonites buying groceries can be increasingly seen hovering in the organic section of stores like '365 forever' in cantonment area and 'Fresh n Easy' in Crossroads mall, trying to stock up on cereals, pulses, wheat flour, grains, spices, edible oils,...
More »Hopes dry up in drought-hit Marathwada -Sudhir Suryawanshi
-DNA Talking about her late son Sampatrao, Gayabai's voice breaks. "He was cleaning a well to increase its depth and width. Suddenly, the manual lift that was carrying the boulders and mud from the well fell on his head. He succumbed to his injury even before reaching the hospital," she says. Gayabai Murkute (75) lost her son Sampatrao (45) in an accident three years ago. Same year the rain stopped falling. Her...
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