Tag: Starvation
Five-year-old Dalit girl allegedly dies of hunger in Jharkhand
Ranchi: Jharkhand has already witnessed several alleged starvation deaths between the years 2017 to 2019 because of the callousness of the previous regime. Thanks...
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 to alert them of...
Jharkhand BJP leader gets ration from Antyodaya, claims being MNREGA labour, while Savitri starves to death after being denied Antyodaya card
Ranchi: In the past three years, Jharkhand has witnessed at least 23 hunger deaths. At a time when eligible poor are not getting rations...
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 one-room mud hut in...
Citizens raise concern on continued attacks on right to life in Jharkhand
Ranchi: Recent starvation deaths, communal lynching and violence, attempts by government to forcefully acquire land and repression of voices of dissent in Jharkhand, made at...
Another hunger death in Jharkhand, and again no autopsy
Ranchi: Savitri Devi, a 58-year-old woman died of hunger at Magargatti village in Dumri block of Jharkhand’s Giridih district, which is only 220 kilometres...