Curbing open urination is next step
For the first time that the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) is officially including the elimination of open urination in its agenda.
Panel to be formed to study the plight of children in jails
The Supreme Court has ordered the appointment of a committee headed by a retired Supreme Court judge to look into issues of children of women prisoners.
Unnat Bharat Programme 2.0
The Government has recently launched Unnat Bharat Abhiyan 2.0, which is the phase-2 of scheme.
Scrub typhus is key encephalitis cause in eastern U.P
The data collected over 3 years from Gorakhpur’s Baba Raghav Das (BRD)Medical College has confirmed that the majority of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) patients admitted to the hospital between August and October each year have scrub typhus.
Most babies not breastfed in their first hour
As per the new report made public, as many as 6 out of 10 babies born in the country are not able to begin breastfeeding within one hour of birth.
Three northeastern States emerge as new HIV hotspots
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare the northeastern states- Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura have emerged as the new hotspots for HIV.
WHO thumbs up for Swachh Bharat’s rural component
According to World Health Organisation (WHO) report, released on 3 August 2018, It is estimated that the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G) will result in preventing more than three lakh deaths due to diarrhoea and protein-energy malnutrition between 2014-October 2019.
Sex workers won’t be criminalised
The Women and Child Development Ministry sought to defend its Anti Human Trafficking Bill, and asserted that the proposed law did not criminalise consenting adult sex workers and migrants.
Nearly half of head and neck cancer patients die within a year of diagnosis: doc
Head and neck (mouth, larynx, throat or nose) cancers account for a large portion of the total number of cancer cases reported in India, and nearly half of the patients with such type of cancers die within a year of diagnosis, said doctors.
Faculty numbers dip 2.34 lakh in 3 years
As per the All India Survey on Higher Education report 2017-18, the total number of teachers in higher educational institutions in India has come down by about 2.34lakh in the last three years.