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Yet another committee, as government drags its feet over soft drinks standards
The issue of contaminated soft drinks seems to have been pushed on to the backburner with the Pesticide Residues Sub-Committee deciding to set up yet another committee to monitor soft drinks for a year before any attempts are made to decide standards for pesticide contamination More... Triveni Devi and 109 other women vanquish corrupt ration shop dealersA chronicle of the battle of destitute women, supported by the NGO Parivartan, to expose a Rs 300 crore Public Distribution System scam in the capital and secure their entitlements using the Right to Information Act More... 'No government wants to deal with a whistleblower'Pramod Kumar, Joint Secretary of the Haryana cadre, has alleged corruption at several levels in the state's education department, including the technical education programme and the district primary education programme. An interview with the whistleblower More... Caste wars simmer as defiant barbers refuse to wash the feet of 'upper castes'In Puri district of Orissa, the 'lower caste' Bariks (barbers) will no longer wash the feet of upper-caste families at social events. They will no longer perform other caste-driven occupations. The ' upper caste' farmer Khandayats refuse to accept this defiance of the social order and have retaliated with a social and economic boycott. Manipadma Jena travelled to the villages where the caste war has been simmering since 2001 More... UP's population policy ignores the ground realitiesPublic health NGOs claim that the Uttar Pradesh Population Policy downplays abortion as a means of family planning, even though 10,000 women in the state die as a result of unsafe abortions every year. Why is this happening? Especially in a state which records 40,000 maternal mortality deaths every year? More... Reliance vs the olive ridley turtleHundreds of thousands of olive ridley turtles visit the beaches of Orissa en masse to nest. Now, along with several other threats to their existence, comes the threat of offshore drilling by one of our country's leading industrial houses More... Orissa villagers opt for 'green fixed deposits'In a novel participatory partnership scheme the Tata Steel Rural Development Society offers farmers incentives to plant and nurture teak and cashew plantations. Already 35,000 cashew trees and thousands of teak trees are thriving in every square foot of available space More... Bal Sansads: Members of Parliament at 11As India constitutes its 14th Parliament in New Delhi, 4,000 children in Tilonia, Rajasthan, have elected 56 members of parliament to their fifth Bal Sansad. The Bal Sansad is a novel way to teach children about democratic processes. But it's not just about role-playing: children are actually responsible for school administration and solving local problems such as water management More... In the name of the JarawaWhile seminars, expert committees and recommendations deliberate the fate of the Jarawas, the 260 original inhabitants of the Andaman rainforests live vulnerable and threatened lives. More... Why 40,000 pregnant women die in UP every yearUttar Pradesh has a maternal mortality rate of 707 per 100,000. Activists believe that the poor quality of reproductive health services offered by state primary health centres, and the continuing target-based approach to family planning are responsible for this. Our correspondent discovered a trail of botched sterilisations, unsafe abortions, antiquated surgical techniques and hasty cover-ups More... SANGRAM: A war for all womenSANGRAM sees women in prostitution not as potential carriers of HIV/AIDS but as agents of change. The organisation and its peer educators work in six districts of Maharashtra and Karnataka's border areas More... Voices of women in prostitutionWomen of the SANGRAM collective for women in prostitution in Sangli meet regularly to discuss issues and problems. All have stories to tell about their lives and their profession More... Hell flows along the River GangaOn a single day, April 19, Eco-Friends fished 60 floating corpses out of the 10-km stretch of the River Ganga in Kanpur. What then is the progress of the ambitious Ganga Action Plan? More... |
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