-IANS DEHRADUN/ HARIDWAR: There was still no clarity over the number of deaths in the flood-ravaged Uttarakhand, with a state minister on Sunday not ruling out an "estimate" of 10,000-plus and chief minister Vijay Bahuguna putting the number of missing people at 3,000. Uttarakhand health minister Surinder Singh Negi did not discount assembly speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal's claim on Saturday of the toll in the tragedy having crossed 10,000. "He (Kunjwal) has given...
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Jairam urges caution over Lancet series recommendations on nutrition -Kundan Pandey
-Down to Earth Rural development minister shares concerns of activists at launch of Lancet series; stresses community role in fight against malnutrition India needs to be careful when it comes to agriculture-based nutrition as it opens the door for advocacy for transgenic food, said Jairam Ramesh, Union rural development minister, at the launch of the Lancet Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition. Ramesh was the chief guest at the programme on June...
More »Jairam Ramesh Underlines Importance of Sanitation in Combating Malnutrition
-IANS Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has said that sanitation plays an important role in malnutrition and has been often neglected from nutrition debates in the country. "You have rapid economic growth on the one hand and better health indicators, better education indicators, better indicators on Water supply but you don't have them reflected in nutrition indicators," Ramesh said at the India launch of the Lancet 2013 series on maternal and child...
More »Delhi: you'll get Water quality check only once in 27 yrs -Nivedita Khandekar
-The Hindustan Times New Delhi: After reading about the deaths reportedly linked to drinking of contaminated Water at NCERT colony in south Delhi, if the quality of Water you drink is worrying you, your anxiety is not unfounded. Chances are your Water supply would be quality checked only once in 27 years. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) lifts on an average 400 samples across the city per day. However, considering the number of...
More »Sardar Sarovar dam clears another hurdle
-The Times of India AHMEDABAD: A major hurdle in increasing the height of Sardar Sarovar dam on Narmada river from the present 121.92 metres to 138.64 metres has been cleared. Both Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh governments said during a meeting convened by Union government's department of social justice on Thursday that the process of rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) has been completed in their respective regions and that they have no objection if...
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