New Courses GS Pre & Mains NCERT CSAT for UPSC Crash course for Pre 2026Source : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-23 THE KERALA ALERT: DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE-KNOWN WEST NILE VIRUS Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues The death of a child in Kerala’s Malappuram district has drawn attention to the epidemiology of the little-known West Nile Virus in India. Though awareness is…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-17 QUOTAS AND A VERDICT Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Rights & Welfare of STs, SCs, and OBCs – Schemes & their Performance, Mechanisms, Laws Institutions and Bodies The story so far: The introduction of a 10% quota for the economically backward through the Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act has…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-26 PROJECT KANNAMMA PROVIDES SANITARY NAPKINS TO GOVERNMENT SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CHENNAI Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Rights & Welfare of Women – Schemes & their Performance, Mechanisms, Laws Institutions and Bodies One step ahead (Far left) Workers from Irula Tribal Women’s Welfare Society manufacturing the Aavaram pads (left)…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-26 PARADIGM SHIFT FOR TB CONTROL Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Tuberculosis (TB) remains the biggest killer disease in India, outnumbering all other infectious diseases put together — this despite our battle against it from 1962, when the National TB Programme (NTP) was…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-20 ON THE LEARNING CURVE: TRANSFORMING EDUCATION OUTCOMES IN INDIA Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Education and related issues Among the lakhs of employees on the payrolls of State governments in India, the education department, unarguably, has the largest share of employees. Besides frontline service providers (teachers), there are…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-29 NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES TOP KILLERS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA: WHO Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) — mainly cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancer — continue to be the top killers in the South-East Asia Region, claiming 8.5 million lives…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-01-28 MODEL FOR MALARIA CONTROL Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues By prioritising malaria elimination, India, and especially Odisha, is showing the world the way. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The World Health Organisation’s World Malaria Report of 2018 turned the spotlight on…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-04-05 MICRO-CHIPS: TELEMEDICINE Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues “I don’t know if he’s going to get home,” said a robot to a dying man in a California hospital last month. Seventy-eight-year-old Ernest Quintana was admitted to Kaiser Permanente Hospital for chronic lung disease.…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-21 INTEGRATE TB SERVICES WITH PRIMARY HEALTH SYSTEM: LANCET Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Diagnosis and treatment need improvement, says the report. Of the 10 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases reported globally in 2017 by the World Health Organisation, 2.74 million were from…
DetailsSource : www.thehindu.com Date : 2019-03-19 INDIA ON THE BRINK OF A DRY EYE DISEASE EPIDEMIC, SAYS STUDY Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Early diagnosis and treatment is crucial. For the first time, a large-scale, hospital-based study in India involving over 14.5 lakh patients had found the incidence…
DetailsSource : www.hindustantimes.com Date : 2019-03-19 HOW TO INSULATE THE LOKPAL FROM GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Important Aspects of Governance, Transparency & Accountability including Right to Information and Citizen Charter Former Supreme Court judge PC Ghose is likely to be India’s first Lokpal, a report in the Hindustan Times said on…
DetailsSource : www.pib.nic.in Date : 2019-03-20 HEALTH MINISTRY REVIEWS THE PREPAREDNESS ON WEST NILE FEVER. Relevant for: Developmental Issues | Topic: Health & Sanitation and related issues Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Health Ministry reviews the preparedness on West Nile Fever. Posted On: 19 MAR 2019 6:34PM by PIB Delhi The Ministry of Health…
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