Right to Food
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Lockdown Hunger
Providing 25 kg free foodgrain to 8 lakh households, will cost only Rs 44 crore per month, says RTF to Jharkhand govt
Kolkata: A team from Right to Food Campaign, Jharkhand Chapter met Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Food Minister Rameshwar Uraon…
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Right to Food Campaign tells Hemant government, “Token Promises Will Not Do much emergency relief to the people”
Ranchi: As a death allegedly from hunger has been reported from Garhwa district, Right To Food Campaign’s Jharkhand chapter has…
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No pension in Jharkhand’s Latehar district for 171 days, where starvation death took place recently
Ranchi: Jharkhand, where two more persons have died from starvation recently, were pensioners too, but neither they were getting rations,…
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Jean Dreze was more concerned about the meeting than his detention
Ranchi: On Thursday renowned development economist Jean Dreze was detained by the Jharkhand Police in Garhwa district. The news shocked…
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Bengal
Bengal’s share of shame: Beggar died from hunger and not illness, claim activists
Kolkata: West Bengal registered its second starvation death in 2018, when 68-year-old Bimla Pandey, breathed her last in her small…
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On Santoshi’s death anniversary, elders narrate how Aadhaar linkage has stopped their pension
Ranchi: “My physically-challenged wife has not got her pension for the last four years. When we go to the bank…
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“Alarming levels of food insecurity in Jharkhand causing hunger deaths,” economist, Jean Dreze
Ranchi: At least 12 people have died from starvation in Jharkhand, but instead of taking action against functionaries whose lapses…
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Jharkhand’s mentally-challenged senior citizen denied ration and pension, dies
Ranchi: A 65-year-old mentally-ill person died in Kodakel village of Murhu block in Khunti district of Jharkhand on Friday. He…
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