-TheWire.in With one of the highest undernutrition rates of children in urban areas, Delhi needs to tackle the issue of severely stunted children in the city who don't have access to proper infrastructure and facilities at local anganwadi centres. New Delhi: It is an early summer morning in North Delhi’s Kabir Basti. A dingy and crowded lane of the settlement, with puddles from water leakages in broken pipes, opens up to a...
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Nationalism trumps drought in Marathwada -Kavitha Iyer & Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Across these regions, where mitigation measures to tackle a grave water and fodder scarcity had barely begun during the election campaign, BJP leaders had run a campaign almost entirely on issues of national security, the Pulwama attack and the Balakot airstrike. Mumbai/ Pune: Shrugging off the impact of a crippling drought, anger at slow drought relief measures and years of poor price realisations for most major farm produce,...
More »DoE finds 73 government schools with pass percentage of below 50 in X Boards -Shradha Chettri
-The Times of India NEW Delhi: Unlike the Class XII results, the performance of Delhi government schools in CBSE’s Class X examination has been a cause of concern. While 73 schools have recorded a pass percentage of less than 50%, 88 schools have witnessed a dip in the same by more than 20% points, reveal official documents. Although the overall pass percentage has improved by 2.64% points to 71.97% this year, Delhi...
More »After elections, oil marketing firms hike petrol, diesel prices
-The Hindu Petrol prices rise 8-10 p, diesel rates climb 15-16 p: IOCL data State-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) increased prices of petrol and diesel across the country on Monday, a day after the last phase of Lok Sabha polls concluded. This could mark the beginning of a rising trend in fuel prices as they are once again aligned to the rising global oil prices. Petrol prices rose 8-10 paise, and diesel...
More »Women voters outnumber men in 13 states and union territories
-The Times of India NEW Delhi: Women voters outstripped men in as many as 13 states and Union territories in the Lok Sabha polls which concluded on Sunday. The new entrants to this club are Bihar and Uttarakhand, the only states in the north to figure on this list. In 2014, 10 states and UTs had seen more women than men voting, but within the then undivided state of Andhra Pradesh, the...
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