The latest National Family Health Survey gives out ignominious figures on the extent of violence perpetrated against women in India. In the 15-49 age group, 35.4 per cent of all women and 40 per cent of married women have experienced physical or sexual violence. Thus, on an average basis, one in three Indian women between…
Mukhya Mantri Dal-Bhaat Yojna is an initiative of Jharkhand government to provide subsidized food to the poor people in the state. The decision to start the subsidized lunch scheme to help people from below poverty line (BPL) was taken at the review meeting yesterday of the food and civil supplies department by chief minister Arjun…
In an effort to prevent illegal prenatal sex determination tests that lead to female foeticide, the Maharashtra government will rope in NGOs to carry out sting operations and identify malpractices at clinics. The proposal from the government is inspired by an act of a social activist who used a decoy couple to book a gynaecologist…
The government of India needs to repeal the sedition law, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), said civil rights activist Binayak Sen at a felicitation function in Kalyani, West Bengal.Earlier, Sen had accused the government of misusing the sedition laws to silence voices of dissent. Sen said…
As focus at the United Nations Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (May 8-13, 2011), in Geneva, came on to the unsavoury equation between poverty and the impact of disasters, CARE International warned that the increasing number of humanitarian disasters was eroding the coping ability of poor people and therefore undermining their ability to escape…
India recorded 25 million cases of malaria and 30,000 deaths in the year 2009, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). That’s one-tenth the number of cases worldwide. It should be noted that earlier on, under the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) in India, malaria was believed to have infected 1.53 million and…
After the “uterus removal for money scandal” of Rajasthan, another shameful incident involving gynaecologists has come to light from Kerala. An enquiry has confirmed that to facilitate holiday plans of gynaecologists at a state-run hospital in Alappuzha, Kerala, 21 caesarean sections were performed between April 20 and April 21. The doctors in the gynaecology department…
Child rights NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, with assistance from police and labour departments, rescued 36 children who were being forced to do labour in Delhi. About half-a-dozen factories were raided and sealed in New Seelampur in northeast Delhi and the Khureji Khas area of east Delhi. After rescuing the children, six factories where they were…
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…
