-Newslaundry.com The cops used a report aired on Ravish Kumar’s show to prop up its theory about Shahid Alam's killing. The Delhi High Court cited the report to disprove it. On February 19, the Delhi High Court granted bail to three men accused of murdering Shahid Alam during the communal carnage in Delhi’s northeast last February. In a chargesheet filed in June, the Delhi police had claimed that Shahid, 25, a rickshaw driver...
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Snakepedia: Kerala now has a mobile compendium of all facts on its snake varieties -Vishnu Varma
-The Indian Express The application is the result of years of painstaking research and documentation by a diverse team of clinical doctors, scientists, photographers and wildlife enthusiasts settled in different corners of the globe on a purely voluntary basis. Kochi: Did you know that the Malabar Pit Viper, a venomous snake found in evergreen, semi-evergreen hill forests and plantations in Kerala, can appear in almost 15 different colour morphs — from greenish...
More »Economic Survey’s flawed view of PMJAY gains -Soham D Bhaduri
-Financial Express The Survey ends up using an array of inapposite health indicators in studying the scheme’s impact Universal health coverage (UHC) has received an unprecedented systemic push over the past decade, reinforced greatly by the Sustainable Development Goals. In India, the public health insurance (PHI) route has been strongly advanced as the prime agency for attaining UHC—founded on the experience of the multitude of state and national PHI schemes stretching since...
More »Jan Arogya Abhiyan to intensify campaign on rate regulation and patients’ rights in pvt Hospitals
-The Indian Express Many patients also reported their inability to access public insurance schemes like MPJAY due to lack of co-operation from Hospitals, and incurring heavy debt to pay their Hospital bills for Covid and other emergency health conditions. Pune: Manisha Palekar from Kolhapur narrated the story of her husband, a public school teacher, who tested positive for Covid-19 and had to be admitted to a private Hospital, which charged them Rs...
More »NITI Aayog's megacity plan for Little Andaman alarms conservationists -Pankaj Sekhsaria
-The Hindu The proposed construction of a mega financial-tourist complex on Little Andaman Island will place at risk a fragile ecosystem and result in habitat loss of the vulnerable Onge tribe and rare wildlife A plan for the sustainable and holistic development of the 680 sq km, fragile Little Andaman Island in the Andaman and Nicobar group has raised the alarm among conservationists. The ‘Sustainable Development of Little Andaman Island - Vision Document’,...
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