-The Tribune Grains Of Discontent: The damage to wheat crop due to untimely rain and hailstorm, followed by delayed payments, this rabi season has further stressed Punjab’s farmers. While the cost of farm inputs has risen manifold over the past few years, the profit margin is on a constant decline, thus making farming unviable. Unable to bear losses, several farmers have committed suicide in recent past As the day breaks, he enters...

-PTI New Delhi: The current immunisation rate in rural areas is around 58 per cent while it is over 67 per cent in urban regions of the country, the government Tuesday said and attributed lack of awareness among parents and non- availability of vaccines as the reasons behind the low rate. "The current immunisation rate in urban India is 67.4 per cent and that in rural India is 58.5 per cent. "The reasons...

Due to the annual decline in under-5 mortality rate by almost 7% during 2008-13, the Government is hopeful of India attaining the target 5 of Millennium Development Goal-4 i.e. reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the U5MR. This has been revealed in a press release on checking child mortality rate by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, dated 28 April, 2015.   However, experts think that this will be...

-India Today In a shocking revelation, the Centre on Tuesday admitted that almost half of India's children are devoid of routine immunisation. While the immunisation in rural areas is around 58 per cent, the figure for urban areas stands just over 67 per cent. Union Health and Family Welfare Minister J.P. Nadda, while speaking in the Rajya Sabha, attributed the dismal rate of immunisation to lack of awareness among parents and non-availability of...

-The Hindu This is the fourth time the U.S. government is taking up the issue of strictures against NGOs in the past couple of weeks. Accusing the government’s actions to regulate Non-Governmental Organisations including the Ford Foundation and Greenpeace International of having a “chilling effect” on civil society, U.S. Ambassador to India Richard Verma, said that India and the U.S. must find an understanding over the issue. “I read with some concern...