-The Hindu Chief medical officers of 72 districts colluded with politicians and contractors in swindling funds meant for poor patients; the CBI has filed 82 cases so far Investigations into the Rs. 9,000-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in Uttar Pradesh have led to the arrest of 149 persons, with the Central Bureau of Investigation arraigning 350 people as accused in 82 cases of corruption, cheating, forgery and conspiracy registered so...
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Average cost of type-1 diabetes management: 27k/year -Shailvee Sharda
-The Times of India Lucknow: Seeing their child in tears each time an insulin pen pricks the belly isn't the only pain parents of a type-1 diabetic child have to go through. The cost associated with management of the disease hurts equally, if not more. A middle-income family spends an estimated 18% of family income on the disease. The findings are from a study conducted by the department of endocrinology at Sanjay...
More »Which city in India is safest to live in? -Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu How do various cities compare with each other in terms of crime? The ‘Crime in India 2015’ statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) last week answers these questions. Apart from national and state-level statistics, NCRB also compiles data for 53 major cities which have a population greater than 10 lakh. In 2015, 25 per cent of all crimes registered in major Indian cities that fell under the Indian...
More »After decade of drought, Bundelkhand flooded -Ramendra Singh
-The Indian Express Bundelkhand: Most of the casualties were due to house collapses, while at least four people were swept away due to the strong water currents in Mahoba and Banda. Lucknow: Having borne the brunt of drought year after year, Bundelkhand is facing the other extreme this monsoon. The heaviest rains in over a decade have inundated 500 villages and caused severe waterlogging in small towns, claiming nearly a dozen lives...
More »PM's speech sets off 'power' struggle between Centre, UP
-The Times of India Lucknow/ NEW DELHI/ JAIPUR: A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his I-Day speech that Nagla Fatela village in Hathras (Mahamayanagar) district of Uttar Pradesh had to wait 70 years to get electricity despite being barely three hours away from the national capital, the state power corporation (UPPCL) and the Union power ministry were battling the veracity of that claim. Senior UPPCL officials on Tuesday insisted...
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