-PTI/The Telegraph India is likely to raise the issue at the World Health Assembly and other multilateral forums Health ministers of different States who attended the 14th conference of the Central Council of Health and Family Welfare (CCHFW) have slammed WHO for its estimate of 4.7 million Covid-related deaths in India, saying it is "baseless" and "intended to show the country in a poor light". They said India has a robust, efficient and...
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Will implement CAA when Covid pandemic ends: Amit Shah in Bengal
-Hindustan Times Although the controversial law was passed in 2019, the rules on how it is to be implemented have not been framed yet, and the government has said this will happen once the pandemic ends. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be enforced as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic gets over, Union home minister Amit Shah said in West Bengal on Thursday, accusing the ruling Trinamool Congress in the state of...
More »Low on gluten, Punjab's ancient wheat variety 'sona moti' fetches four times the MSP -Ruchika M Khanna
-The Tribune Chance discovery of ‘sona moti’-- * Known as “Sona Moti”, the wheat variety has low gluten and glycemic content, but high folic acid and nutritional value * This variety is a chance discovery after its seeds were given as “prasad” to Jalalabad-based farmer Virender Mohan Nagpal by Pingalwara in 2014 Chandigarh: An ancient wheat variety, grown in Punjab thousands of years ago, is once again making waves for its high nutritional value....
More »India Has Max Covid Deaths, Says WHO; Incorrect, Says Government -Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV.com "India has consistently questioned WHO's own admission that data in respect of seventeen Indian States was obtained from some websites and media reports and was used in their mathematical model," the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. New Delhi: India has strongly refuted the World Health Organisation's use of mathematical model to calculate the number of Covid deaths, saying the "figure is totally removed from reality". Contending that the country...
More »Food fascism violates our right to food and nutrition, state eminent citizens
-Statement issued by Concerned Citizens, Doctors, Nutritionists, Parents, Advocates and Researchers dated 5th May, 2022 Amidst growing attacks on meat sellers and restaurant owners who sell non-vegetarian food, a statement has been issued by concerned citizens, and civil society groups. The statement depicts how such attacks or bans against non-vegetarian food would impact the right to food as well as the nutritional status of the disadvantaged sections of the society and the undernourished...
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