-The Wire Science New Delhi: India’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR) has improved to 103 for the period between 2017 and 2019. However, despite an overall improvement, the ratio has remained the same for some states, according to the Sample Registration System’s (SRS) estimate released by the Registrar General of India. In some states, like West Bengal, Haryana and Uttarakhand, the ratio has worsened. As per the 2020 data, during the period of...
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80% foreign medical graduates fail India’s licence exam. Here’s what they end up doing instead -Kritika Sharma and Abantika Ghosh
-ThePrint.in In 2019, 25.79% Indians cleared Foreign Medical Graduate Exam, a test aspirants with degrees from certain countries need to clear for practise in India. Figure was 14.68% in 2020 and 23.83% in 2021. New Delhi: Every year, thousands of Indians with medical degrees from foreign universities appear for the Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE) — a screening test conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE) and mandated by the National...
More »SKM likely to meet in Delhi tomorrow to re-start farmers’ protests: Report
-Livemint.com The farmers had announced suspension of their protest in November last year after PM Modi announced repeal of three farm laws The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), group of over 40 farm organisations that spearheaded years-long protest over farm laws against Centre, is likely to meet in Delhi on March 14 to discuss re-starting agitation, The Hindustan Times reported on Sunday. The SKM also contested recently concluded assembly elections in Punjab but...
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-The Hindu Limited impact in western Uttar Pradesh’s sugarcane belt After attracting thousands of farmers from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to join a year-long agitation, farm union leaders were largely unable to leverage that mass support to tilt the results in the Assembly polls. In Punjab, the union leaders who fought the elections are set to lose their deposits. In U.P., where the wider Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) platform campaigned against the BJP...
More »Behind ‘Writing with Fire’: three women and their thirst for truth in Oscar 2022 entry -Aseem Chhabra
-The Hindu As ‘Writing with Fire’ competes at the Oscars, filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh look back on why they decided to follow three Dalit journalists for five years Six years ago, when New Delhi-based filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh attended a meeting at the Khabar Lahariya office in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, they had no idea how deeply engaged they would soon get with the lives and work of the...
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