-The Hindu Report on congenital deformities in children born to women exposed to the 1984 gas leak is inconclusive, says committee. An expert committee explicitly barred the publication of the findings of a Research study that said babies born to women — who as children were exposed to the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal — were significantly more likely to have “congenital malformations” than those born to women unexposed to the gas. The...
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Govt releases 5 survey reports after uproar, holds back study it junked -Somesh Jha
-Business Standard Scholars across the world had appealed for the survey reports, including one on household consumer expenditure. The Union government on Saturday released five sets of survey reports on key socio-economic trends, most of which were approved but withheld. The junked consumer expenditure survey was not among these. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released the survey reports, ‘Household Social Consumption in India: Health’ and ‘Household Social Consumption in India:...
More »Study of one lakh individuals finds why India's children are anaemic -Aswathi Pacha
-The Hindu The Research revealed an inverse relationship between mother's education and incidence of childhood anaemia Last month, during the festive season, an ad campaign urged Indian women to invest in iron-rich food and focus on whether they were anaemic. Around the same time, a Lancet Global Health report noted that 23% of Indian men suffered from anaemia. Adding to these findings, now a paper published in Scientific Reports points out that...
More »Switching back to coarse cereals can offer multiple benefits: Study -TV Jayan
-The Hindu Business Line India can benefit substantially on multiple fronts such as nutritional security, energy and water utilisation and even cut its greenhouse gas emissions if it promotes the cultivation of coarse cereals, showed a study by Researchers from India, Austria and the US. During the Green Revolution of the 1960s and the 1970s, the focus has mainly been on increasing rice and wheat output. As a result, a large number...
More »IB, RAW, ED and Income Tax dept get SOS from Modi govt to help check soaring onion prices -Samyak Pandey
-ThePrint.in Officials from Intelligence Bureau, RAW, ED and I-T department have been mandated to work with agriculture and consumer affairs ministries to check onion prices. New Delhi: It’s not just the policymakers in the Narendra Modi government who are worried about soaring onion prices. Sleuths from the Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing, Enforcement Directorate and the Income Tax department are also on their heels, ThePrint has learnt. With the onion prices touching...
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