Public Health Watch
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Flaws in nutritional scheme for TB patients show challenges in feeding the hungry in Covid-19 times
The Nikshay Poshan Yojana scheme is well-intentioned but remains poorly conceptualised and executed.
Diptendu Bhattacharya & Vashita Madan
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How the Aam Aadmi Party’s Mohalla Clinics changed public healthcare in Delhi
Ahead of Delhi elections on February 8, a look at the hits and misses of the AAP government’s pet project.
Sadhika Tiwari, HealthCheck.in
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In India, 47% of poorest children and 30% of richest children are not immunised
Factors such as household wealth and parents’ literacy affect vaccine coverage.
Pankti Antani, HealthCheck.in
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Why many young Muslims are leaving India
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Watch: 75 musicians perform the entire song whose first stanza is India’s national anthem
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Opinion: Pakistan has learnt little from India and India has taken the worst lessons from Pakistan
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‘Mind your language’: Bar Council of India rebukes advocate Prashant Bhushan for ‘ridiculing’ SC
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Watch: Pakistani musician plays Indian national anthem on the rabab as Independence Day ‘gift’
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Beware the vape: E-cigarettes pose an urgent threat to public health
Vaping devices were designed as a clean way of delivering nicotine, to help people stop smoking tobacco.
Elliott M Reichardt, The Conversation & Juliet R Guichon, The Conversation
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Rajasthan is trying to fix staff shortages at health facilities – but that’s creating other problems
The state has privatised the management of some its primary health centres. But the low wages have prompted many qualified staff to quit.
Menaka Rao
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One year on, states have not complied with the Supreme Court’s sterilisation surgery guidelines
States and union territories have failed to provide details of death audit reports and status of claims made under their sterilisation programmes.
Navneet Wadkar & Mohit Gandhi
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Watch: Arvind Kejriwal’s speech accidentally played at BJP’s ‘tiranga yatra’ in Gujarat
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Watch: When former Pakistan PM Imran Khan praised India for not bowing to the West
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Gateway of India to Howrah Bridge: Monuments, structures, buildings lit up for Independence Day
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Watch: Indian flag unfurled 30 kilometres above the surface of the earth to mark Independence Day
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Watch: Young refugees in India sing ‘Jana Gana Mana’ with Grammy Award-winner Ricky Kej
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Over 18,700 dengue cases reported this year, Kerala tops the list
Tamil Nadu assumed the second spot with 4,174 dengue cases reported so far this year.
Scroll Staff
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What India can learn from China on tackling mental health
China runs the largest publicly-funded mental health programme in the world.
Nayantara Narayanan
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Golden Tobacco Ltd begins implementing 85% pictorial warning rule on its cigarette packs
Packets of two of the company's several several brands – Panama and Golden Gold Flake – bearing April 2016 as the manufacture date will carry larger images.
Scroll Staff
The Reel
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Does Netflix series ‘The Sandman’ make your every comic-loving dream come true?
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‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’ trailer: Fawad Khan leads reboot of a Pakistani classic
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Start the week with a film: Get a much-needed dose of ‘Gandhigiri’ with ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’
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‘Darlings’ director Jasmeet K Reen on her heroines: ‘They are simple, scared, a bit off’
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‘Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons’ review: Jeffrey Epstein and the dark side of marketing
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Are the UK government’s new alcohol guidelines an assault on freedom? Just ask John Stuart Mill
The Victorian reformer was something of an expert on the "nanny state".
Ben Saunders, The Conversation
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Three diseases India should worry about more than Ebola
Leptospirosis and other conditions pose a greater threat to the subcontinent.
Udit Thakur