-The Hindu PALAKKAD: Death continues to stalk tribal infants at Attappady. Two more tribal infants died on Saturday of alleged malnutrition, taking the toll to 38 since January this year. The three-day-old child of Shantha and Subramaniyan of Chindakki primitive tribal hamlet in Pudur grama panchayat died on the way to the Coimbatore medical college. Shantha had delivered the child at the Mannarkad taluk hospital on October 28. The mother and child were...
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Indians booed at global meet for ‘genocide of TB patients’ -Malathy Iyer
-The Times of India PARIS: Accusing India of committing genocide of tuberculosis patients, international activists on Friday booed Indian health officials at the ongoing Union World Conference on Lung Health here while they were trying to showcase the country's efforts to check the disease that kills 1,000 Indians every day. "India supplies drugs to the world, but it's not providing anti-TB drugs to its own patients," said Kenyan activist Bactrin Killingo, who...
More »Women bank to be launched on Indira's birth anniversary -Sujay Mehdudia
-The Hindu The government has drawn up plans to launch country's first all women bank - Bharatiya Mahila Bank - on November 19, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. "We have asked the Election Commission for permission. The bank might be as well inaugurated on November 19. All work has been completed. But whether we can do it on November 19, whether we can do it in Delhi...
More »In major reform, SC orders fixed tenure for bureaucrats-J Venkatesan
-The Hindu Officials told not to act on oral orders from political executive To insulate the bureaucracy from political interference and to put an end to frequent transfers of civil servants by political bosses, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre and the States to set up a Civil Services Board (CSB) for the management of transfers, postings, inquiries, process of promotion, reward, punishment and disciplinary matters. A Bench of Justices K.S....
More »A scheme without clarity-Sharmistha Sinha
-The Hindu New Delhi: Against the backdrop of increasing violence against women and children across the country, the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development had launched the ‘Ahimsa Messenger' Programme in last August to address the critical issue at the grass roots level through creating numerous Ahimsa Messengers. The messengers would be generating awareness on basic legal rights, procedures and provisions amongst women and children; they would also serve as link...
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