In a shocking revelation through a Right to Information (RTI) application, it is found that three private nursing homes in Rajastan’s Dasua district removed uterus of 226 women out of 385 women patients between March and September last year. All these hospitals were recognized by the government under its ‘Janani Suraksha Yozna’ programme for safe…
Sen is a sympathiser. Nothing beyond that,observed the Supreme Court (SC) today while granting bail to rights activist Dr Binayak Sen. The SC order reversed the decision of Chhattisgarh High Court that had convicted Sen for sedition and sentenced him to life imprisonment. A bench comprising Justices HS Bedi and CK Prasad passed the order on…
This year, India Development Marketplace (IDM), the long-term programme supported by the World Bank Group, shortlisted 30 out of 264 proposals seeking finance to scale or replicate inclusive and sustainable business models in Bihar, Rajasthan and Orissa. Keeping in perspective the parameters of social impact, sustainability, growth potential and innovation, the expert jury selected 13…
In 2009, Intel Education Initiative in India announced that approximately one million teachers, teacher educators and student teachers had completed the Intel Teach Program during the previous 10 years, across 20 states and 73 universities in the country. Globally, Intel had by then trained over six million teachers across 40 countries and India was the…
‘To my organization, business associates, industry and to society at large, I pledge to ensure honesty & truthfulness, decency in advertising, non-exploitation of vulnerable sections of society especially children, fairness in competition. I commit myself to advertising with a conscience.’ About 240 industry representatives, under the banner of the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI),…
Under the 1950 Peace and Friendship treaty between Nepal and India, Nepalese have the right to live and work in India. Indeed, for decades they have been coming to India in search of employment opportunities. In theory, Nepalese in India have the same rights as Indian citizens, with the exception of voting rights; yet, they…
Water is ‘kind of’ important. It makes up between half and three quarters of the human body weight, needs to be topped up on a regular basis, and we cannot go without it for more than about a week. As well as drinking it, we also use water for cooking and sanitation, not to mention…
The study links classrooms with poor environments – inadequate material resources and teachers who are not happy or are not interested in their job – which have been linked to a higher number of mental health problems in students.
If the administration of the malnutrition-hit Melghat region in Maharashtra is to be believed, the region has seen a marginal decline in infant mortality rate (IMR) and child mortality rate (CMR) as compared to 2009-10. The infant mortality rate has come down from 54 to 48.19 per 1,000 babies, while child mortality rate has declined…
