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NITI Ayog Rates Kerala Best State In Heath Parameters

Kochi: Kerala has again emerged as the top ranking state in terms of overall health performance among larger states, while Uttar Pradesh is the worst, according to the fourth Health Index launched by Niti Aayog.

The fourth round of the Health Index took into account the period 2019-20 (reference year).

The report by the government think tank said Tamil Nadu and Telangana have emerged as the second and third best performers, respectively, on health parameters.

The report, however, added that Uttar Pradesh ranked at the top in terms of incremental performance by registering the highest incremental change from the base year (2018-19) to reference year (2019-20).

Among the smaller states, Mizoram emerged as the best performer in overall performance as well as incremental performance, while among UTs, Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir ranked among the bottom UTs in terms of overall performance but emerged as the leading performer in terms of incremental performance.

The report has been prepared in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with technical assistance from the World Bank.

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Five Dead In A Bus Pile-Up Near Ambala

Ashmita Chhabria

Ambala: Three buses rammed up into each other on the Ambala-Chandigarh highway early on Monday. This bus pile-up led to death of five and ten are injured. The buses were private tourist buses.

Police has said that three buses which rammed into each other were private tourist buses, headed towards Delhi from Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmirโ€™s Katra town rammed into each other, killing five travellers, including a 45-year-old woman, on the spot.

The injured were rushed to a nearby private hospital.

According to initial reports, the police said, the accident, which took place 15km from Ambala, is suspected to have taken place due to the sudden applying of brakes by the driver of the bus plying ahead.

A case was registered at Baldev Nagar police station. The bodies were shifted to the Ambala Civil Hospital mortuary.

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