Fourteen-year-old gets one crore rupees to fight against child marriage
Bina Kalindi, a fourteen-year-old girl, has been fighting a battle against child marriage in her village Purulia, West Bengal, for years now. She diligently goes from door to door, spreading awareness and convincing families of the ills of this social evil. She was
Violence against women at over 35%; discriminatory attitudes result in under-reporting of crimes
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
Lunch at Rs 5 for Jharkhand’s poor
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
Activist’s sting inspires govt to rope in NGOs for foeticide check
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
Repeal the sedition law and AFSPA, says Binayak Sen
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
Poverty and disasters reinforce each other manifold
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
WHO’s new mathematical model says malaria killed more than estimated earlier
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
To avail of holidays, docs do “mass caesareans”
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
About 40 child labourers rescued; 11 factories sealed
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
Hospitals removed uteruses of 226 women for money
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