-TheNewsMinute.com Rupa Devi fell in love with the beautiful game. It was a strange quirk of fate, perhaps, that took Rupa Devi away from her FIRst love: if she couldn’t play the game herself, she could at least be around people who did. Rupa Devi is the FIRst woman referee from Tamil Nadu to be selected by FIFA. Rupa Devi fell in love with the beautiful game after she watched seniors in her...
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Ban pesticides in suicide-hit districts, demands activist
-The Times of India Nagpur: Chairman of state task force on farmers, Kishore Tiwari, has urged chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to ban use of chemicals in 14 suicide-prone districts of Maharashtra. Tiwari's suggestion follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal to emulate Sikkim, which has become the FIRst state to switch over to total organic farming to save environment. "To start with at least the 14 districts of Maharashtra, affected by farmers' suicide,...
More »Child stunting declines, but still high, data show -Rukmini S & Samarth Bansal
-The Hindu As of 2005-06, India had 62 million stunted children, accounting for a third of the world’s burden of stunting. Indian states have seen some improvements in child nutrition over the last decade, the FIRst official data in over a decade shows, but over one in three children is still stunted, and over one in five underweight. As of 2005-6, India had 62 million stunted children, accounting for a third of the...
More »NFHS-4 Shows Kids and Moms Bit Healthier Now
-The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16, the states of Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and the Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry show promising improvements in maternal and child health and nutrition. The FIRst phase of the survey covered 13 states and two Union Territories. All the 15 have rates below 51 deaths per 1,000 live births. Infant mortality rates...
More »Data gaps hamper my work on India: Thomas Piketty -Jyotsna Singh
-Livemint.com The economist believes inequality in India is comparable with Brazil, South Africa but lack of transparency over direct tax statistics in India hinders his study here New Delhi: Economist Thomas Piketty believes inequality in India is comparable with that in Brazil and South Africa. Like the two other emerging economies, where the richest 10% of the population has a 60-65% share of total wealth, a similar scenario probably exists in...
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