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Funding, commitment gaps threaten gains in curbing measles deaths, UN warns

Global measles deaths have fallen by 78 per cent within the past decade, with vaccinations saving some 4.3 million lives, but the disease could make a deadly comeback if funding and political will are not sustained, a United Nations-backed study warned today. All regions except South-East Asia – where India alone, with its 1-billion strong population, accounted for three out of four measles deaths in 2008 – have achieved the UN...

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NCPNR to intensify stir against illegal mining

The National Committee for Protection of Natural Resources (NCPNR) and other organisations have decided to hold a meeting on December 8 in Bellary to chalk out an action plan for intensifying the people’s campaign against illegal mining. Addressing presspersons here on Wednesday, NCPNR founder-president S.R. Hiremath, former convenor of Gram Ganarajya Vedike Jyoti Veeranna and Jan Vikas Andolan’s A.S. Salanki said that in the wake of the ruling of the Central...

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It is well known that India’s record of violence against women is dismal but the bigger shock is the revelation that incidents of such violence are consistently rising. According to a report by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the rate of increase in violence against women in 2007 was over 12 per cent as compared to the previous year. The most depressing part of the report is...

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