-ThePrint.in In a study published in the Nature journal Wednesday, scientists attributed the methane growth in 2020 to wetland emission and changes in ‘atmospheric sink’. New Delhi: In 2020, the year COVID-19 pandemic led to global economic slowdown, researchers documented an alarming rise in atmospheric level of methane emissions, despite a drop in human-induced emissions. Scientists attributed the methane growth rate anomaly to lower hydroxyl radical (OH), which is the main remover of...
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Young people dropping dead due to cardiac arrests, here's who are at risk and how to prevent -Samrat Sharma
-IndiaToday.in What is more concerning is that India is already more vulnerable to heart diseases and sees more cardiovascular deaths than the global average. Incidents of young people walking around the streets, working out in the gym, or even on the wedding stage are suddenly dropping dead due to cardiac arrests. And, this is happening not only in India but around the world. The trend has become more prominent as more cases...
More »Constant Rise In Govt Schools Admission & Decline In Private Schools Post-COVID: MoE Report
-PTI/ The Telegraph * As per the data recorded in UDISE+, the enrolment in government schools was 13.09 crore during 2019-20. It rose to 13.49 crore in 2020-21 and to 14.32 crore in 2021-22 * The Central Government through the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha, provides assistance to the States and UTs for the deployment of additional teachers to maintain appropriate Pupil-Teacher Ratio (PTR) as per the prescribed norms for various...
More »How fuel prices become mysteriously stable just before elections. Here’s data since 2020 -TCA Sharad Raghavan
-ThePrint.in In recent years, fuel prices have been kept static for weeks before assembly polls, only to be changed soon after. However, there's no clarity over who's deciding the prices. New Delhi: Rising oil prices have meant that the Modi government is increasingly abandoning a dynamic pricing reform it had adopted in 2017 and is now exerting more control over fuel prices. Troublingly, government data shows that fuel prices are being kept...
More »Expand the food safety net without any more delay -Reetika Khera
-The Hindu Expanding PDS coverage to account for the increase in population since 2011 is a no-brainer; the Government’s resistance to implementing a Supreme Court of India direction is baffling The National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013, through the Public Distribution System (PDS), provides a crucial safety net for roughly 800 million people. Even critics of the PDS appreciated its services during the COVID-19 lockdown. The humanitarian crisis resulting from the COVID-19 lockdown,...
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