Descent Into Hell

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Source : www.thehindu.com  Date : 2018-12-09 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues The working conditions of manual scavengers — those who manually clean drains, sewers and septic tanks and remove human excreta — has not changed for decades. Many of them make their way down a…

Report On ‘Toxic’ Talc Worries India

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Source : www.thehindu.com  Date : 2018-12-09 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues The debate over whether talcum powder poses serious health risks is in the spotlight again. A risk assessment draft on talc published by Health Canada, the country’s public health department, states that talcum powder…

Global Fight On Malaria Stalled: Who

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Source : : www.livemint.com Date : 2018-11-20 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues The World Health Organisation on Monday said global efforts to fight malaria have hit a plateau as it reported there were more cases of the killer disease in 2017 than the previous year.…

Skill India Is Ailing

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Source : www.indianexpress.com Date : 2018-11-17 OPINION Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources Topic: Human resources & Sports and related issues Remember the fanfare and optimism over the launch of Skill India in July 2015, and the roadmap for skilling 400 million people by 2022 (World Youth Skills day)? Today, Skill India looks like a…

Health & Sanitation and related issues

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Source : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2018-11-15 ALL NORTH EASTERN STATES COMMIT TO DECLARING ODF BY DECEMBER 2018  Relevant for: Health, Education & Human Resources | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation All North Eastern States commit to declaring ODF by December 2018 Posted On: 14 NOV 2018 6:40PM…