-The Hindu Business Line Goyal meets industry associations to assess demand-supply situation, alternative plans Representatives of India’s edible oil industry met Commerce and Food Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday to discuss ways to check the galloping prices of the cooking medium as disruption of supplies of sunflower oil due to the on-going Russia-Ukraine conflict threatens to make the situation worse. The meeting, called a day after the Union Food SECretary’s discussion with industry...
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92% of COVID-19 deaths in 2022 have been among unvaccinated: ICMR -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu ICMR chief Balram Bhargava urged students coming from Ukraine to get vaccinated immediately if they had not already done so. In 2022, 92% of COVID deaths have been in unvaccinated individuals, Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Dr. Balram Bhargava said on Thursday. He added that it’s evident that vaccines and the wide vaccination coverage have played a very important role in protecting hundreds of lives. Dr....
More »Value the knowledge of the Ganga’s riverine communities for river’s development -NCAER
-Hindustan Times The National Council of Applied Economic Research recently conducted a study, titled, Livelihood and Health Challenges of Riverine Communities of the River Ganga, in collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Tata Centre for Development to explore the social & economic engagement of the riverine communities on the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. A large SECtion of the population living in the Ganga river basin still depends on the...
More »Next COVID-19 wave can’t be predicted: experts -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu There is absolutely no way to forecast the timing, says Professor behind SUTRA model Independent experts have criticised a recent modelling study from a group of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur that predicts a fourth COVID wave in India around June. The study, uploaded on the preprint server, Medrxiv, which hosts scientific work that is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal forecasts the wave to begin...
More »In young voters, aspirations slowly turn into anxiety -Roshan Kishore
-Hindustan Times At 54.9 million, young men and women in the 18-30 age group constitute 36.5%of the total voters in the ongoing assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. Gorakhpur: Uttar Pradesh is home to 54.9 million young men and women who are in the 18-30 age group. That is approximately 36.5% of the total voters in the ongoing assembly elections. For an overwhelming majority of this cohort, the 2014 Lok Sabha and the 2017...
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