-Live Mint Debates on malnutrition ignore links with sanitation and disease and the burdens these impose on children Children in India are among the shortest in the world. Widespread child stunting is a human development tragedy. This is not because there is anything wrong with being short or anything inherently good about being tall. The tragedy is because of what makes children short: we all have different genetic potential heights, but...
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Slain Naxalites had dropped guns, wanted to surrender -Soumittra S Bose
-The Times of India MENDHARI (GADCHIROLI): The picTuresque little hamlet of Mendhari, around 90-km from Gadchiroli town, was considered by the Naxalites as a safe haven. The tranquillity here had remained undisputed until Sunday when, for the first time, the villagers witnessed a lopsided bloodbath in which six women rebels were killed in police firing. The villagers, who claimed to have been thrashed by the C-60 commandos too, told TOI that four...
More »Mamata Banerjee slams judiciary for poll 'game plan'
-The Times of India LALGARH: After the State Election Commission, it was the judiciary's Turn on Monday. Speaking at an election meeting in Lalgarh, chief minister Mamata Banerjee came down heavily on the judiciary for its "game plan" regarding the rural polls. "We were forced to submit before the game plan of the court and the State Election Commission to let the panchayat elections take place in the month of Ramzan as...
More »UP with 1,564 tops list of Uttarakhand missing, total may touch 4,500: Official -Sanjay Singh
-The Indian Express Dehradun: Uttar Pradesh with 1,564 people unaccounted for tops the list of the missing in Uttarakhand. It is followed by Rajasthan (820), Madhya Pradesh (504), Maharashtra (296) and Delhi (213). Sources in the Uttarakhand government said the official count of the missing could eventually total around 4,500. This would include 795 people from Uttarakhand. Until Monday, UP had sent three lists, identifying 1,564 people who have not reTurned home from...
More »State of lawlessness-Nitya Ramakrishnan
-The Hindu "Why this selective concern about encounter killings in Gujarat - these happen all over the country," pleaded Gujarat's lawyer at a Supreme Court hearing of veteran journalist B.G. Verghese's public interest petition on 22 unexplained police killings in that state. When a 13-year-old boy was abducted from a Delhi jhuggi by Gujarat police officials on a whim, the State government's defence was first that the boy was Bangladeshi, next that...
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