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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The Political Fix: What BJP’s rejected offer to suspend farm laws tells us about Modi’s tactics
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‘Please don’t follow me now’: Actor Rhea Chakraborty asks paparazzi when spotted in Mumbai
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There is not a Virender Sehwag in that current team; India are very, very patient: Graeme Swann
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How can the Oxford vaccine be made more effective? By combining it with Russia’s Sputnik V
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The mass radicalisation that India does not acknowledge
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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
Video
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Caught on camera: US police car rams into a crowd in Tacoma, Washington
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Watch: Leopard breaks into Bengaluru apartment complex, spotted crossing the road
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Watch: Army soldiers carry woman, newborn to safety amidst heavy snow in Lolab in Kashmir
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Watch: Delhi police installs concrete barricades ahead of farmers’ Republic Day tractor march
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Watch: Thousands of farmers reach Mumbai’s Azad Maidan to protest against the new farm laws
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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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Watch: ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ set for March 26 release
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Book excerpt: When NT Rama Rao became the first Indian chief minister to act in a movie
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Zeb Bangash on the Bollywood cover of ‘Bibi Sanam’: ‘A disservice to the song’s meaning’
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Why Malayalam breakout film ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ is ‘the story of most Indian women’
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‘Metro Park 2’ trailer: The NRI Patels from New Jersey is back
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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