-The Business Standard Bihar's model of health care through mobile phones is finding many takers Many things may be going wrong in India, but the one thing that has gone right is the reach of the mobile phone. It has bridged the divide between the rural and the urban areas, the rich and the poor. Governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and phone companies are realising the potential of the mobile phone as a tool...
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Where rape is a conspiracy -Prasenjit Chowdhury
-The Hindustan Times It is really sad for Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to accept that as per the latest figures released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) West Bengal recorded the highest number of crimes against women for the second year on the trot. The NCRB statistics said West Bengal recorded 30,942 cases of crime against women in 2012 - of which 2,046 were rape cases. Senior administrative and police...
More »Mobile clinics conduct sex test on fetuses -Seethalakshmi S
-The Times of India BANGALORE: The pre-natal sex-determination racket has gone mobile in Karnataka. A three-member team from the National Inspection and Monitoring Committee was in for a shock last week after it caught a radiologist red-handed with his mobile ultrasound machine at a bus-stop in Doddaballapur, 43km from Bangalore. The modus operandi was simple: The radiologist would come twice a week to the bus-stop where his agents would turn up with...
More »Madhya Pradesh: Found pregnant, brides forced out of mass marriage -Manjari Mishra
-The Times of India JABALPUR: Twenty-year-old Naraini was one among nine prospective brides who were unceremoniously evicted from a government-organised mass marriage function in Betul and made to surrender their gift hampers on Friday after two women officials prodded their belly and announced them pregnant. As Naraini came out of the venue, the groom followed suit after surrendering the gifts worth Rs 10,000 given under chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's scheme for...
More »Global leaders sign comprehensive charter to tackle stunting in children -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: The fight against stunting - the world's most urgent nutritional challenge - got a big boost through a global agreement signed by world leaders in London on Saturday. The Global Nutrition for Growth Compact signed by countries and global leaders committed to reduce the number of children under five who are stunted by an additional 20 million in developing countries like India by 2020. At present stunting...
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