A gender-specific approach is not only more cost-effective but has a positive effect on reoffending rates. Women constitute a clear minority in the prison estate – not just in India, but all over the world. On a global scale, women constitute 6.9% of the total prison population. In India, it is 4.3%. As per the […]
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Frequent Road Mishaps Of School Children In Hyderabad With Careless Rash Driving And No Traffic Sense
Instances of young lives, which have hardly seen a few summers, being crushed to an end by speeding or erratically driven vehicles is on the rise in the city of Hyderabad. In fact, this January witnessed 11 children in the age group of 6 years to 10 years losing their lives in different road accidents. […]
‘Replacing Paracetamol Tablets With Syrups After Immunization Is Not A Solution, Find The Root Cause’
Following the death of two infants at Nampally UPHC in Hyderabad, the government now making it compulsory to give paracetamol in the syrup-form following immunisation. While the move may be welcome with its concomitant funds, doctors say that the root cause remains unsolved. “Just ensuring syrup is not enough as there can be syrups with […]
Where Is Modi Govt’s Financial Inclusion Of ‘Jan Dhan Yojana’ With Poor India?
The BJP government published an infographic on the 48-months portal that makes three claims about the Jan Dhan Yojana. This article is a fact check of these claims. What is the Jan Dhan Yojana? According to the official website, ‘the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) is a National Mission on Financial Inclusion encompassing an […]
Do ‘Indian Patients’ Even Know Their Medical Rights At Hospitals?
The medical rights would become meaningful only when built on a strong information mechanism about patients, doctors as well as healthcare establishments. In 2018, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare along with the National Human Rights Commission released a draft of ‘Charter of Patient Rights’ – an assembly of provisions in laws and judgments […]
Heavy Rush At ‘Wine Shops’ Makes Commuters To Crawl At Hyderabad Roads
Traffic jams a regular affair mainly during peak hours and now the crowded wine shops are despised not only for selling liquor that often leads to road accidents, but also for adding to motorists’ woes by bringing traffic to a halt on quite a few stretches in Hyderabad. As dusk nears, the stretches where wine […]
Deadly Consequenses Ahead As India’s 2-Million-Tonne ‘E-Waste Recycling’ Works
India generates more than two million tonnes of e-waste annually, and also imports undisclosed amounts of e-waste from other countries from around the world – including Australia. The world produces 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) per year, according to a recent UN report, but only 20% is formally recycled. Much of […]
Niloufer Hospital Duty Doctor Attacked By Patient Attendants After 10-Month Baby Dies From Malnutrition And Gastrointestinal Disease In Hyderabad
In another case of an attack on hospital staff, a post-graduate junior doctor at the Niloufer Hospital in Hyderabad was attacked by an infant’s relative after the 10-month-old passed away suffering from protein-energy malnutrition and acute gastroenteritis on Friday. The incident came to light after the police filed a case and the accused was taken […]
‘Child Labour’ Rescued From ‘Brick Kiln’ In Hyderabad Despite Stringent Laws
As many as 13 children were rescued from brick kilns in the outskirts of Hyderabad on Tuesday, many of these children were adolescents above the age of 14. Labour Department officials say, there could be cases of bonded labour at the brick kiln but require the Revenue Department to assess if the workers are paid […]