Tag: Starvation
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No starvation deaths, ration card cancellations: Centre to SC
Attorney General K.K. Venugopal contended before a bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde that he will put the response on an affidavit as incorrect statistics have been relied upon to arrive at this conclusion.
February 24, 2020 -
A painful signal
Social sector benefits, notably rice at Rs 2 a kg and 100 days of work under the Mahatma Gandhi NREGS, have scarcely been able to address the grinding privation in the Junglemahal belt that straddles West Bengal’s Purulia, Bankura, West Midnapore and the newly-created Jhargram districts. Whether or not this failure on the food front …
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August 18, 2018 -
Abject poverty snatched food from minor girls
A narrow street in East Delhi’s Mandawali village takes one to a dingy room where three minor sisters, who are believed to have died due to starvation, lived with their poor parents. Neighbours said the family lived in abject poverty. The children ~ aged two, four and eight years ~ hardly got food two times …
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July 27, 2018 -
Anthropology at 100~II
The only point we wish to emphasise is that a very large number of persons of Bengal depend on agriculture. It is definite that each and every one of these families could not have had a sufficiently extensive farm to meet all its demands and store something for a period of crisis. Indeed, they lived …
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January 11, 2018 -
Family cites ‘starvation’ in Jharkhand rickshaw puller’s death
The death of a rickshaw puller at Jharia in Dhanbad has whipped up a fresh controversy after family members alleged that the man died of hunger while the district administration said it was due to a prolonged illness. Rickshaw puller Baijnath Ravidas (45) died at his Tarabagan house in Jharia on Friday evening. After completing …
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October 22, 2017 -
Jharkhand ‘starvation’ death: Victim’s mother thrown out of village
The mother of an 11-year-old girl, who allegedly died due to starvation on September 28, was on Saturday thrown out of her village in Jharkhand’s Simdega district. According to reports, the locals accused her of defaming the village. The scared woman later took shelter in the panchayat building. The Simdega district administration has asked the …
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October 21, 2017 -
Jharkhand CM orders probe into starvation death of girl
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Tuesday ordered a probe into the death of an 11-year-old girl in Jharkhand’s Simdega district allegedly due to starvation. Santoshi Kumari, a resident of Karimati village of Simdega district, died on September 28. The death came to light after it was reported on Sunday by an organisation working on …
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October 17, 2017 -
20,000 children in Somalia risk starvation, aid group says
An aid group is warning that more than 20,000 children in drought-hit Somalia could starve to death in the coming months without continued international assistance. Save the Children said Thursday that the number of cases of severe acute malnutrition has “skyrocketed” in several of the nine Somali districts assessed. The new survey warns of “famine-like …
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June 29, 2017 -
UNICEF: 80,000 children will starve to death in Nigeria
Nearly a half million children will face starvation in northeastern Nigeria next year and 80,000 will die if they don't get treatment in the humanitarian crisis created by Boko Haram's Islamic uprising, the U.N. Children's Agency warned. “What is already a crisis can become a catastrophe,” UNICEF executive director Anthony Lake said yesterday. His statement …
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December 14, 2016