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The country that has all the resources to send an unmanned spacecraft Mangalyaan to Mars is unable to save its children from starvation and sudden deaths. The International Food Policy Research Institute, in its Global Hunger Index, 2016, ranks India 97 among 197 countries, showing that despite its enviableeconomic growth, the health and starvation crisis in the country is worse than 25 sub-Saharian countries and practically the worst in Asia, with only Afghanistan and Pakistan trailingit.

According to Global Hunger Index, around 180 million Indians are unsure about accessing the daily square of meals.

Article 39 of the Constitution upholds that children are to be provided opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy lifestyle and manners. Their heath needs are covered under the larger governmental policies, programmes and schemes, but everything turns into a sham exercise at the grassroots levels.

There are innumerable central and state government schemes to develop the impoverished, tribal-dominated and naxalism-hit Koraput-Balangir-Kalahandi (KBK) region of Odisha. Yet, the infant and maternal mortality rates of KBKs 11 districts are alarming.

Every year, 1,400 children lose their lives in Nabarangpur district alone. Accordingto the data available for last three years, 4,338 children died in this particular district.

Recently, areport on the ordeal of apregnant tribal, who was carried to the hospital by her family members for some 3.5km for the lack of anambulance in Umerkote area of Nabarangpur, showed the healthcare situation in the region isn't really, though India is shining at large. I was a witness to the tragedy.

A Damuni Gond from Odisha being carried by her family members to the hospital for the lack of an ambulance. Photo: The New Indian Express

In Malakangiri district, the maternal mortality rate stands at 245 against the state average 200. People experience a virtually sub-Saharan life with scarce development activities and livelihood sources. Almost all the tribal girls get married by the time they attain puberty and 43.1 percent of the pregnant women in the district receive no antenatal care.

Prominent Odia daily Samaja reports that more than 50 per cent of the pregnant women give birth at home, unaided and unattended. Strident efforts to provide antenatal care and skilled birth attendants for every pregnant woman in the country are the need of the hour.

India's growth story looks good until one begins to pay attention to the stories of tribal women and children from the hinterlands of rural deprivation. Stories you may never read in the newspapers, unreported accountsof invisible lives, citizens displaced from their land and robbed off their livelihoods those who prefer suicide to selling their dignity, whose children go to bed hungry every single day.

There is a deliberate attempt to hideand deny the numerous problems by a government anxious to build Indias image as powerful, emerging economy with promising trade opportunities. There is a rush to participate in global events, be it trade meets, film festivals or diaspora gatherings.

Tim Wise, an American essayist aptlysummed up Indias policy in his blog: Indian elites practice Poverty Denialism which is a culture of cruelty. Bashing the poor Indians for no reason becomes Right-wing amusement.

Recently, Union minister Venkaiah Naidu said that seeking loans and asking for waiver has become a fashion. With 20.6 percent share of worlds poorest, is India shining? Is economic growth good for billionaires or India's billion citizens?

Nobel Prize winner and eminent welfare economist, professor Amartya Sen recently said, It is now a clearly established reality that even after gaining high growth rate and increasing per capita income, we have failed to protect our children from hunger and diseases. I feel the questions of resources is not big one, a lot of money is spent but situation is not improving with accordance with our expenditure because our delivery system are the worst, unaccountable and non-responsive towards the most marginalised like children.

Evidently, only strong political will and greater financing can ensure child and maternity healthcare become a priority for India.

Quality healthcare needs to reach every child and every woman in the country, irrespective of class, caste, gender and location.

Only then can India shine.

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TUPELO, MISS. (WCBI) Twenty two teenagers graduated from the Tupelo Police Departments Junior Police Academy.

The Junior Cadets spent two weeks , living at the North Mississippi Law Enforcement Training Center, as part of the academy.

They learned about many aspects of police work, such as firearm safety, first aid, cpr, boating and water safety and crime scene investigation.

Instructors say they are encouraged at the quality and discipline of the Junior Cadets, many of whom are interested in careers as law enforcement officers.

The thing about it is, these kids take two weeks out of their summer vacation from school to come spend it with us, and it gets our hopes up a lot to know they are dedicating that two weeks to come stay with us and its something they would rather be doing than sitting home on the couch, said Capt. Terry Sanford, with the TPD.

Guest speaker was District Attorney John Weddle, who talked about the importance of law enforcement officers in the criminal justice system.

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There are mounting concerns President Donald Trumps tweeting is hijacking his agenda and distracting from the administrations focus on its economic growth plan. But In Trump We Trust author Ann Coulter disagreed, telling the FOX Business Networks Stuart Varney, Ive heard that argument, I love the tweets and yesterdays tweet was fantastic.

Coulter then weighed in on the presidents controversial tweet about MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski, saying, Even my friends who disagree with me on whether the president should tweet were all calling yesterdays thing, okay youre right, after the Mika tweet hes got to keep tweeting, it was fantastic.

Coulter agreed that the president should be able to use Twitter to defend himself against the media.

The idea that the aggression, the war between the president and the media, its fantastic, its been a one-sided war until now.

When asked if the presidents tweets will enhance the presidents agenda on health care and tax reform, Coulter responded,

Yes, it makes the media look even sillier than the Russia conspiracy theory. Do you think theyre talking about any of the presidents agenda on CNN or MSNBC because youre not watching if you think they are?

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Coulter then said the media should, rename themselves the smirking network, thats all they do about Trump.

When asked if the administration would be more effective without the tweets, Coulter reacted, No, I do not think they could. I think its fantastic, the people get to hear from the president directly.

According to Coulter the medias coverage of Russian meddling has grown tired.

I cant even watch MSNBC and CNN anymore, Id rather have them talk about some dumb facelifts than have them talk about this nonsense with the Russian conspiracy theory.

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STONE MOUNTAIN, GA Two educators caught on camera fighting inside of a classroom will be fired, the DeKalb County School District said Wednesday.

The video shows the two arguing in a classroom at Stone Mountain Middle School, which then leads to shoving and eventually escalates into a full-on brawl. The incident happened on May 19, according to school officials.

DeKalb County School Police confirmed that both employees have been charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct.

Brittany Randolph-Johnson, 27, has been identified as an 8th grade teacher at the school. Milan Etheridge, 27, is a special education paraprofessional that assists the teacher in any given area.

DeKalb County School officials stated: When DeKalb County School District employees violate the high professional and personal standards of the district, they are held accountable. The employees involved in the unacceptable physical altercation at Stone Mountain Middle School will be terminated following the conclusion of the appropriate district processes. We will never tolerate such behavior in our schools.

Its not yet known what started the fight, which broke out during Field Day activities.

Etheridge and Randolph-Johnson were both booked into DeKalb County Jail on Tuesday and later released on bond. They have been charged with disrupting operations of a public school.

In a letter sent home to parents, Stone Mountain Middle School Principal Vincent Hinton called the fight unacceptable.

As with all matters of student safety, we take this incident very seriously and have acted accordingly, Hinton said. Let me take this opportunity to assure you that providing a safe and secure learning environment is of top priority at Stone Mountain Middle School. Safety and security procedures are in place to help maintain a safe campus. Anyone who creates an unsafe learning environment for our students will receive swift disciplinary actions.

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Police officer caught her with half-undressed schoolboy, a former pupil, in the back of her car at 2am earlier this week in Florida, USA, but initially said that he was the one seducing her

A DRAMA teacher had an unscripted run in with the law while allegedly performing a sex act on an underage pupil in her car during the middle of the night.

Pamela Stigger, 33, claimed she was only trying to mentor him but the 15-year-old told police she had told him to go to the back seat where they took off their trousers and underwear and had sex.

Drama teacher Pamela Stigger was allegedly caught performing a sex act on a former pupil

A police officer approached her car at 2am to find her with a 15-year-old boy who was undressed

The aspiring actress then reportedly got dressed and was performing oral sex on him when he told her a sheriffs deputy was walking towards the car.

The female officer swooped in Tamarac, Florida, after a call about a suspicious looking vehicle obstructing traffic with no one in the front seats at approximately 2am.

She said she saw Stigger in the back with the boy who was naked from the waist down.

Sheriffs spokeswoman Gina Carter said: When she was questioned about what they were doing and if they had, in fact, engaged in sexual acts, she denied being engaged in these sexual acts despite the fact that the young man was undressed.

Stigger faces two charges of sexually assaulting the student who was in her drama class at Forest Glen Middle School in Coral Springs during the academic year 2015-16.

She is also accused of lewd and lascivious activity on a minor.

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The lad told investigators Stigger was driving him home when she pulled over and started kissing him in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Stigger, who, according to investigators, has a custodial relationship over the teen, is said to have denied having sexual contact with him.

She initially accused him of attempting to seduce her before changing her story, said Carter.

The sheriffs spokeswoman added: She did say that she was in the process of mentoring this past student of hers, even though it was two oclock in the morning, and they were in the back seat of a car.

On Friday a court banned Stigger from having any contact with the boy and she must wear an ankle monitor while out on bail.

Broward County Schools said Stigger had worked for the district since 2008 but that now she had been administratively reassigned away from the school, and will not be permitted access to students.

This situation is being taken extremely seriously, and the district will continue to co-operate with the investigation.

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