-The Times of India MEERUT: Jyoti Singh, 24, who left a cushy corporate job in Gurgaon to do organic farming in her Bulandshahr village, hasn't been able to find a single transporter for more than THRee weeks now to take her dying cow Moni to a vet. The cow, injured in a leg, needs to go to a hospital in Bareilly for expert treatment, but such is the fear of rampaging gau...
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1 in 3 toilets built in rural areas unsafe: Survey -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Almost one in every THRee toilets built in rural areas are unsafe on health and sanitation parameters, a sample survey on the technologies under the Swachh Bharat Mission has shown. It has also found that nearly 60% of these toilets are twin-leach pits, which the government has been promoting under Swachh Bharat Mission considering that these are safer. The survey by WaterAid, an international non-profit- published...
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-The Telegraph Calcutta: A Calcutta High Court judge on Friday questioned the "reliability" of the Bengal government's dengue death report after a petitioner named four people who purportedly died of the disease but were not on the government's list furnished on Thursday. "What is the reliability of the government's report, then?" Justice Arijit Banerjee asked advocate-general Kishore Dutta after going THRough the four death certificates, each of which read "dengue NS1 Antigen...
More »A Tale of Two Doctors and India's History of Hiding Its Diseases -Sohini C
-TheWire.in A Bengal doctor has been suspended after he wrote a Facebook post on the dengue crisis. The case is similar to another doctor in Mumbai who was ‘raided’ for identifying totally-drug-resistant TB cases. Dr Arunachal Dutta Choudhury, a doctor of general medicine at the Barasat District Hospital in West Bengal, likes to write in verse. His Facebook wall is filled with his Bengali poems. His favourite form is the end rhymes,...
More »Own the crisis -Sowmiya Ashok
-The Indian Express Breathing has certainly become injurious to health in Delhi. Yet, those of us who live here and have vocalised our breathlessness, struggle to acknowledge that we too have somehow contributed to what the social media has termed an “apocalypse”. Delhi, where 25 million people reside, has struggled to breathe this month. A thick layer of smog, initially deemed “severe” and then an “emergency”, enveloped the national capital region....
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