-Live Mint The Street Vendors Bill, 2012, is the first attempt to regulate urban street hawkers India’s more than 10 million street vendors should be registered on the basis of their Aadhaar numbers to ensure proper identification, a standing committee has recommended in its report on the Street Vendors Bill, 2012. “The Aadhaar card may be linked towards identification of street vendors,” the panel said in the report it submitted to the Lok...
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Ram Singh’s death: Rape and ugly sexual violence in Indian jails-G Pramod Kumar
-First Post It’s so brutally ironical that Ram Singh, perhaps the most hated man in India today for allegedly masterminding the Delhi gangrape, became a victim of rape himself. We still don’t know how he died, but his father has made it public that Singh had been raped in jail. Not just him, even his co-accused had been raped as well. Retributive justice, some say, because the accused had been made to realise...
More »Kendriya Vidyalaya students to get life, accident cover -Christin Mathew Philip
-The Times of India CHENNAI: Kendriya Vidyalaya schools, long known for quality education at affordable cost, will be offering accident and life insurance cover for all its students from the coming academic year. Sources said the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) will set apart Rs 4 crore as annual premium for its 11 lakh-odd students in the 1,086 schools across the country. Each student will have a cover of Rs 2 lakh in...
More »India lags behind in key health parameters-Aarti Dhar
-The Hindu Indians are living longer than before, but Illness and disability of a very high order and relatively early death remain severe health care challenges. What should concern health care planners and providers is that India is lagging behind many of its South Asian neighbours, including China, in key health parameters. Life expectancy at birth in India, that was 58.3 in 1990, has gone up to 65.2 in 2010. However, most...
More »Indians living longer but not as long as neighbours-Anuradha Mascarenhas
-The Indian Express Pune: Indians are living longer lives than earlier, but Illness, disability and relatively early death remain severe healthcare challenges. And India appears to be lagging behind many of its neighbours including China on both life expectancy and death rates, according to the findings of a study that used new online tools announced by the Bill Gates and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. On December 15, The Lancet...
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