In the right hands
Healthcare interventions that are scaled up can only be sustainable when women are put at the centre of development and caring for their community When the Karuna Trust, the Karnataka-based not-for-profit organisation, undertook the responsibility of managing the primary health centre (PHC) at Wakka, a village in Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh,...
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Pushing boundaries
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Teachers need support now more than ever
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Education overhaul
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New curriculum
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Data theft
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Speed, power and other things
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Ram temple priest, 4 cops test positive
31 July 2020 | PNS
‘Yogi invited for bhoomi pujan as main host’
Shutting the door for the Shiv Sena and its leaders for the bhoomi pujan for construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya, the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust has issued a statement saying that only Yogi Adityanath will attend the ceremony being the main host of the function. RJB Teerth Kshetra...
Rakhis, Vrindavan-themed masks for ‘Modi bhaiya’ from widows
Widows living in various ashrams of Vrindavan are eagerly looking forward to sending rakhi and Vrindavan-themed masks to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to mark the festival of Raksha Bandhan this year. Till last year, some widows from Vrindavan used to visit the prime minister’s residence in Delhi to tie rakhi to...
CM asks SGPGI to send teams to six coronavirus-hit districts
With the spike in coronavirus positive cases in several districts, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the SGPGI Director to send teams of experts to Kanpur Nagar, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Bareilly, Jhansi and Gorakhpur where special efforts are needed to improve COVID-19 treatment facilities. Yogi directed officials to constitute a team for...
UP Cabinet clears formation of UPSSF
In a major decision to strengthen manpower for maintaining law and order in the state and also to reduce the burden on Uttar Pradesh Police and Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), the state government, in a cabinet meeting on Thursday, gave nod for the formation of five battalions of Uttar Pradesh...
14 juveniles escape from protection home; 7 held
The cops of Mathura police went on alert after getting information that 14 inmates of the district juvenile protection home had escaped sometime on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. A massive search operation carried out by the cops yielded some results as they managed to nab seven of the...
Covid test of accused must before sending to custody
The Odisha Prison Authority has asked police to conduct RT-PCR test to detect coronavirus infection in accused before sending them to judicial custody. According to official sources, 96 inmates of 10 prisons in the State are infected by the virus. Besides, 17 staffs of four jails have tested positive for Covid-19. Officials...
Pay woman Rupee I lakh indemnity: NHRC
Jemamani Tahani, a poor woman of Salebhata village in Muribahal block of Balangir district had undergone family planning operation in 2017. She fell sick after a few days of the operation complaining severe abdominal pain. Later on after further checkup, it was found that the doctors of Muribahal CHC had...
