Starvation
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Lockdown Hunger
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…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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Another hunger death in Jharkhand! This time a tribal woman
Giridih/Ranchi: A 40-year-old tribal woman died of starvation in Sewatand village of Giridih district in Jharkhand. The woman, identified as…
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