-The Hindu Switching to renewable energy sources in the country's midday meal programme will save millions of rupees. But only a few kitchens are doing anything about it, says the author. This is a story of facts and figures and sheer size. Of an auditorium-sized room dense with hot steam from cooking. Of seven tonnes of cooked rice and four tanker-loads of steaming sambar that needed 70 pairs of hands for cutting...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 3386
17% of urban Indians have kidney disease: Study -Durgesh Nandan Jha
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a worrying fallout of the rising diabetes and hypertension cases in urban India, a study across 12 cities found 17 out of every 100 people suffering from kidney disease. Of this, 6% had stage III kidney disease which necessitates medical attention and, in some cases, costly treatment like dialysis or transplant. The study used data from 13 hospitals, both private and government, across 12 cities...
More »Three of a Family Commit Suicide in Gujarat Due to Poverty
-Outlook Bhavnagar (Gujarat): Driven by abject poverty, three members of a family, including two girls, allegedly committed suicide behind the railway quarters here today, police officials said. "Fed up with financial crisis, Asha Parmar (35) today committed suicide by consuming poisionous substance along with her two daughters Jaishree (9) and Bhavika (4). Before taking the extreme step, she also made her two daughters consume the poisonous substance," Delta 'B' Division police inspector...
More »Prices of vegetables & spices crash upto 20% due to the brisk start to monsoon -Sutanuka Ghosal
-The Economic Times KOLKATA: Prices of vegetables and spices have dropped up to 20% in the past month and are likely to remain low as higher output along with the brisk start to the monsoon has calmed the market. The drop in vegetable prices, on top of the global fall in various commodities from aluminium to zinc, is good news for policymakers as stubbornly high inflation has hindered moves to cut interest...
More »Advani props up Shivraj Singh Chouhan, runs down Narendra Modi -Suchandana Gupta
-The Times of India GWALIOR: Barely two weeks after he embarrassed BJP by saying the party lost Karnataka due to "opportunistic" politics, L K Advani sought to run down Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi suggesting his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan deserves more credit. Advani reiterated his argument that Chouhan's achievements rank higher as he is the CM of a "bimaru" (laggard) state, while Modi only improved economically well-off Gujarat. "He...
More »
