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Planning Commission updates Poverty Line-“an Outrage”!

Dhananjay Mahapatra & Nitin Sethi ,TNN | Sep 21, 2011, 12.45 AM IST NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that anyone spending more than Rs 965 per month in urban India and Rs 781 in rural India will be deemed not to be poor. Updating the poverty line ..... Read More

Bride Trafficking in Haryana – yet another fall out from a declining sex ratio

Dwaipayan Ghosh,TNN | Sep 21, 2011, 02.25 AM IST NEW DELHI: Thanks to its skewed sex ratio, one Haryana's worst kept secrets is back to haunt the capital with Delhi police claiming to have busted a gang that used to abduct young girls and sell them off to middle-aged men ..... Read More

Third and Fourth Combined Period Report on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

http://wcd.nic.in/crc3n4/crc3n4.htm (more…) ..... Read More

Deadly virus causes death of 16Children in Bihar

Updated: September 12, 2011 01:57 IST Bihar is in the grip of yet another seasonal outbreak of encephalitis that has claimed the lives of at least 16 children in the Magadh division in less than three weeks. As on Sunday, the government-run Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH) in Gaya district ..... Read More

Maternal Mortality Rate high in Orissa

Updated: September 10, 2011 19:57 IST The reduction of women mortality — the number of maternal deaths per one lakh live births — is still an area of concern for governments across the globe. In 1994, the International Conference on Population and Development recommended that maternal mortality be reduced by ..... Read More