Poor diabetes care may be behind 7,000 excess deaths
More than half of people with diabetes missed out on vital checks last year, charity Diabetes UK says. Source link
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Explained | How are stray dog bites related to poor waste management?
The story so far: In April, a 65-year-old woman in Srinagar was attacked by street dogs outside her home. Also sitting in front of her house is a garbage collection point — a mound of food and poultry waste that becomes food for free-roaming dogs in the area, as per reports. The incident, one among … Read more
Scholarships given to poor students at VIT, Vellore
Industrialist Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti giving away scholarships to poor students at the scholarships award function that was organized by VIT at its campus in Vellore on Wednesday. VIT founder chancellor G. Viswanathan is also seen. | Photo Credit: C. Venkatachalapathy Government staff and employees in public sector companies should generously donate for initiatives like scholarships … Read more
Poor maintenance support shuts surveillance systems in many private buses
Even as the Ministry of Transport is gearing up to make closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras mandatory for all stage carriers in the State, the condition of many such cameras installed in private buses in Kozhikode district subsequent to a directive from the Motor Vehicles department (MVD) nearly six years ago is in a piteous … Read more
‘Election-oriented Budget protects interests of a few, ignores that of the poor’
Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K.S. Alagiri on Wednesday said the Union Budget protected the interests of Ambani and Adani, and it was made with an eye on the Assembly elections in various States and the 2024 Lok Sabha election. In a statement, he said the rich in India, who own 70%-80% of the wealth, … Read more
Provided free foodgrains to 80 crore poor people, no one went hungry during pandemic: Finance Minister Sitharaman
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman | Photo Credit: AP The government ensured that no one went hungry during the pandemic by providing free foodgrains to 80 crore poor people, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on February 1. Also Read | Union Budget 2023-24 live updates In times of global challenges, G-20 presidency gives an opportunity … Read more
CPI(M) stages dharna over distribution of house sites to poor in Anantapur
CPI(M) activists and women from Kalluru, Pamidi and Guntakal staging a dharna, in Anantapur on Thursday. | Photo Credit: R.V.S. PRASAD The CPI(M) Anantapur district unit took out a three-day Padayatra from Guntakal to Anantapur to meet the people who were allegedly denied house sites and houses under the Pedalandariki Illu scheme and staged a … Read more
Millets in the mainstream | How Odisha’s Kutia Kondh tribe rediscovered a palate for the ‘poor man’s food’
Women carrying millet seeds as part of the Burlang festival at Deopada village in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Rajamudu Majhi may not be articulate enough to recount the millet’s journey from its glorious past to the brink of disappearance. But when asked in what way the millet is valued in his … Read more
Hooch tragedies kill the poor, not the man who can afford pricey whisky, SC tells Punjab
A view of the Supreme Court of India in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court on Monday criticised the Punjab government for treating the rampant illegal liquor trade mafia in the State with “kid gloves”. A Bench of Justices M.R. Shah and M.M. Sundresh said the blind eye and … Read more
Pfizer will not sell drugs for profit in poor nations
“We know there are a number of hurdles that countries have to overcome to gain access to our medicines. That is why we have initially selected five pilot countries to identify and come up with operational solutions and then share those learnings with the remaining countries,” Angela Hwang, group president of the Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group, … Read more