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Gujarat: A Painful Period in Salt Pans of Little Rann of Kutch
Women workers go through a cycle of agony in the eight months they toil in salt pans, where poor water availability and lack of medical help make monthly bleeding scary.
Climate Change May Increase Mortality Rate by 6 Times Due to Excess Heat: Lancet Study
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The study said rise in night heat events will nearly double by 2090, from 20.4 degrees Celsius to 39.7 degrees Celsius across 28 cities from East Asia, increasing the burden of disease due to sleep disruption.
UP: Long lines for funerals return in Varanasi ghats
Local newspaper report Covid-like atmosphere at crematoriums with multiple bodies on the pyre at once
Don’t make mentally disabled person travel for assessment test: Madras HC to TN gov’t
HC also suggest that the government consider exempting those suffering from other disabilities also from appearing in person to obtain disability certificates
78 percent Maharashtra households suffered food insecurity: Hunger Watch II report
As many as 20 percent of surveyed households suffer severe food insecurity, with most deprivations focused in urban areas
WHO bats for ASHA, calls them India’s ‘Global Health Leaders’
Union leaders argue true respect for ASHAs would entail payment of proper wages and job permanency
“Ineligible” people told to return ration cards in UP
Ration cards are the new methods of inclusion and exclusion into food security, as the UP government issues “guidelines” to declare people“ineligible”
Over half of Karnataka’s children stunted and anaemic: NFHS
While the NFHS-5 report claims improvement over NFHS-4 report, the numbers raise concern in post-pandemic economy
47.4 lakh excess deaths in India: WHO
Overall, the organisation estimates India accounts for a third of the 1.49 crore deaths
Covid numbers rise again: Don’t panic, wear your masks!
India’s effective reproduction number (R-value) for Covid-19, has increased to over 1 for the first time since mid-January
BMC reports only 43 vasectomies in 2021-22
Blaming the decline on the Covid-19 pandemic, authorities said they will address the issue with new vigour
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