SEARCH RESULT

Total Matching Records found : 9033

Tribal mothers look forward to rich nutritious meals -Dilnaz Boga

-TheHansIndia.com Poya Devi, 22, is happy that the weight of her child has been steadily increasing. Her infant has received immunisation and, since last June, Poya has been availing services of the Indiramma Amurutha Hastham (IAH) scheme in her village of Urumulu, which lies 30 kilometres away from Araku. Poya was registered at the village's anganwadi as soon as she got pregnant and was later sent to a hospital for institutional delivery...

More »

Let’s remake the classroom -Rukmini Banerji and Esther Duflo

-The Indian Express The 10th edition of the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) by Pratham, released last week, shows that over the last decade, basic learning levels for children in elementary school in India have remained low. Only about half of Class V children in rural India can read a simple Class II level text, and a similar proportion can do a two-digit subtraction problem with borrowing. While there are...

More »

UN study predicts rising global unemployment due to slower growth, inequality, turbulence

-The United Nations An extra 10 million people worldwide are likely to be unemployed by 2019, a new United Nations report has said today, pointing to slower growth, widening inequalities and economic turbulence as reasons behind the trend. According to the World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2015 (WESO) report, released today by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the next four years will see the total number of people out of...

More »

Climate Change threatens farmers livelihood in Assam -Amarjyoti Borah

-TheHansIndia.com Climate Change and its adverse impacts which includes a change in the rainfall pattern and rising temperature is affecting farmers in the state of Assam, located in India's North East The state which is largely agriculture based has a major portion of the state's population engaged in this sector. According to data from the state agriculture department, over 70 percent of the state's population relies on agriculture as farmers, or agricultural labourers,...

More »

Sec 66A arrests: NDA on same page as UPA -Utkarsh Anand

-The Indian Express The NDA government took over from the UPA more than eight months ago but it appears to be deja vu for activists fighting against the constitutionality of Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which empowers police to arrest people for social media posts. Following the previous government's line, the NDA regime has lent its support to the validity of Section 66A, saying the "danger was present and clear"...

More »

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close