Arvind Kejriwal, a member of the joint drafting committee for the Lokpal Bill, is disappointed at the way the government has treated the suggestions made by the civil society for the new Lokpal Bill. In an interview with Thufail PT, he talks about the future of the campaign, the charges of the right-wing bias in the campaign and why it is okay to take funds from corporates for such campaigns....
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Donors shun water projects by Fiona Harvey
More than one billion people will not get the basic sanitation and the clean water promised as such projects shrink sharply as a proportion of global aid budgets. A key development goal to halve the number of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015 will be missed because donor countries have diverted aid money away from unglamorous water projects, according to the World Bank and the charity WaterAid. Aid to...
More »Millions facing severe food crisis amid worsening drought in Horn of Africa – UN
-The United Nations An estimated 10 million people across the Horn of Africa are facing a severe food crisis following a prolonged drought in the region, with child malnutrition rates in some areas twice the emergency threshold amid high food prices that have left families desperate, the United Nations reported today. In some areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda, drought conditions are the worst in 60 years, the...
More »Farmers want hospital or land back by Sarat Sarma
Thirty sugarcane cultivators of Ujoragaon, a village located 15km from the district headquarters, today asked Dispur to resume construction of the 30-bed hospital for which they had donated four hectares 21 years ago or return their land. The Donors plan to approach Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the Congress legislator from Nagaon Sadar constituency, Durlav Chamua, soon.In 1990, the AGP-led state government had proposed to construct a 30-bed hospital...
More »Only 6% of blood Donors are women by Kounteya Sinha
Indian women don't believe in donating blood. According to the first ever data bank on gender distribution of blood Donors, India has among the lowest number of female blood Donors in the world. Compiled by the World Health Organisation, the data bank says that of the 4.6 million donations in 2008, only 6% donations were by women. The rest 94% were male Donors. There were only 13 countries including India among the...
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