-The Hindu Slowdown in consumer durables hits August manufacturing ; retail inflation rises to 3.77% in Sept. New Delhi: Industrial production slowed to a 10-month low of 4.3% in August, due in large part to a drastic deceleration in the manufacturing, mining, and consumer durables sectors, according to official data released on Friday. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) slowed in August from its growth rate of 6.61% in July. Within the index,...
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Globally, C-section close to double since 2000: The Lancet -Anuradha Mascarenhas
-The Indian Express In India, C-section use increased from 9 per cent of births in 2005-6 to 18.5 per cent in 2015-16. Pune: The number of babies born globally through caesarean section (C-section) almost doubled between 2000 and 2015, according to a series of three papers published in The Lancet Thursday, which also shows that India has had a major increase in the number of such deliveries. A Lancet series that tracks...
More »RTI rank: India slips a spot to No. 6 -Rumu Banerjee
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: All is not right with the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India. A recent rating of 123 countries with functional right to information laws saw the country slip to number six on the list. While it slipped by only a notch from last year, it is several rungs down the list from 2011, when the global RTI rating started. India was at number 2...
More »The health transition -K Srinath Reddy
-The Indian Express Progress on non-communicable diseases should not be benchmarked against sustainable development goals. In the last week of September, India’s health ministry received the prestigious UN Inter-Agency Task Force Award for “outstanding contribution to the achievement of NCD (Non-Communicable Diseases) related SDG targets”. At the same time, a Lancet paper by the monitoring group, NCD Countdown 2030, contended that India will fall short of the NCD targets pertaining to SDGS....
More »Explained: When and where the sexual harassment law holds, against whom -Vrinda Grover
-The Indian Express An Expert Explains: If a woman is harassed by a man who is not in the same organisation, whom does she approach? Does the law cover a complaint that is made several years after the alleged incident? New Delhi: If a woman is harassed by a man who is not in the same organisation, whom does she approach? Does the law cover a complaint that is made several years...
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