Speaking at a ceremony, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said that the government will increase the focus on eliminating malnutrition and urged the Anganwadi workers to contribute in this effort ...
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UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced a compensation of Rs. 10 lakh each for the family members of the workers who died, a government statement said ...
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In a bid to make Indore single-use plastic-free, the Municipal Corporation of Indore is bringing back ‘lotas’ and metal utensils in government offices and is setting up ‘Bartan Banks’ from where the citizens can borrow reusable utensils to serve food at parties and return later ...
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In a bid to increase the focus of state governments and Union Territories on improving healthcare and providing nutrition, NITI Aayog has developed a health index report in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the World Bank to rank the states in real-time on the basis of their performance on various health indicators like fertility rate, maternal mortality rate, number of vacancies of doctors among others ...
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In a bid to conserve water, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur will be working on identifying the best available and affordable technologies for wastewater treatment and to provide solutions to the challenges of water use in both rural and urban areas ...
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The Ministry of Railways has urged the Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to set up plastic bottle crushing machines in major railway stations and increase the use of reusable products to reduce plastic footprints ...
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To support Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of making the country plastic-free, the Lok Sabha Secretariat has banned the use of single-use plastics from their campus ...
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With an aim to investigate the impact of climate change on the Artic, a team of scientists from United States of America tested ice-samples and found visible plastic beads and filaments of various shapes and sizes ...
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APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Yojna Is Making Amravati’s Tribals Understand Health, Hygiene In Their Dialect
Launched in 2015, APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Yojna is helping the women from Amravati’s Korku tribe break the vicious cycle of child marriage, early pregnancy and caring for malnourished children ...
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A recent study sponsored by National Mission For Clean Ganga found that Yamuna's stretch through the Wazirabad barrage in Delhi is extremely contaminated and unsuitable for aquatic life ...
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While addressing a gathering at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences President Ram Nath Kovind said that lack of access to health services, malnutrition and neglected tropical diseases act as constraints to the development of the nation ...
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Around 1.9 billion adults worldwide are overweight, while 462 million are underweight, states World Health Organization (WHO) ...
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