-Hindustan Times Deputy comMISsioner R Lalremsanga said the body of a 25-year-old man from Lunglei was recovered from the debris around 8:30pm on Wednesday The toll from the stone quarry collapse in Mizoram’s Hnahthial district went up to 11 as one more body was recovered from the site, an official said on Thursday. Deputy comMISsioner R Lalremsanga said the body of a 25-year-old man from Lunglei was recovered from the debris around 8:30pm...
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Number theory: Knots in India-China trade data -Surendar Singh and Ram Singh
-The Hindu Business Line Under-invoicing of imports is just one part of the story. Data asymmetries have many other factors. The trade data MISmatch of India and China has attracted wide coverage from both electronic and print media. This MISmatch is attributed to ‘under-invoicing’ by Indian importers for the imports originating from China. There is MISmatch of $12 billion with China reporting its exports to India over $103 billion. Indian agencies, on the...
More »COVID-19: Over 5 Lakh People in India MISsed or Delayed TB Diagnosis in 2020
-PTI/ Newsclick.in Globally, over 1.5 million people in 45 high-burden countries MISsed or delayed tuberculosis diagnosis in the first year of the pandemic, says study. New Delhi: Over five lakh people in India are estimated to have had a MISsed or delayed tuberculosis diagnosis in 2020 due to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study. The researchers found that over 1.5 million people in 45 high-burden countries had a...
More »In the shade of the Great Shudder -Bitan Sikdar
-The Telegraph Amphan changed the institutional knowledge of the Sunderbans folks. The Telegraph recounts how they lived the countdown to Cyclone Sitrang Gobardhanpur: Shankar Das is taking stock of the luggage for the last time. Hurriedly, with fear-ridden eyes. Outside, the wind speed is changing. It will take time to reach the school building on the village outskirts. His family will accompany him. If it gets late, there might be no space...
More »Expert in pandemic response lists flaws in West Bengal’s fight against dengue -Sanjay Mandal
-The Telegraph The state government has neither made public the total number of dengue cases this year nor the number of deaths it caused Disregard for data, letting the large volunteer force created for Covid disappear following a sharp drop in cases, failure to spread awareness, love for denial. The wild spread of dengue across West Bengal has bared lapses in the government’s combat strategy and the failure of health officials to learn...
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