-The Hindu How is this initiative different from the MGNREGA for villagers? What are some of the similar schemes being implemented in other States? The story so far: The Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme has rolled out in Rajasthan with the objective of providing economic support to the poor and needy families living in the cities through work to be provided on demand for 100 days in a year. The Congress...

-Livemint.com The latest findings add further evidence in support of policies that LIMit ultra-processed foods and instead promote eating unprocessed or minimally-processed foods to improve public health worldwide A new study have driven home the point that high intake of ultra-processed foods is associated with an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease, bowel (colorectal) cancer and death. The study, published in the journal The BMJ, informed that the latest findings add further evidence...

-The Telegraph Findings suggest if India is able to meet clean air targets, anaemia prevalence among women in the reproductive age would fall from 53 per cent to about 39 per cent Long-term exposure to air pollution could contribute to anaemia among women of reproductive age through systemic inflammation triggered by inhalation of tiny particulate matter (PM) smaller than 2.5 microns, researchers have cautioned. A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of...

-Hindustan Times Opposition legislators staged a walkout on the last day of the monsoon session to protest what they called Gavit’s “insensitivity” over the issue. Mumbai: Conflicting information over malnutrition deaths in the state emerged from the assembly on Thursday as ministers of the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government contradicted each other. Tribal development minister Vijay Kumar Gavit said that the state had not witnessed any malnutrition deaths in the past five years,...

-Down to Earth Multiplication of vectors, stray cattle main reasons behind spread A total of 35,000 cattle have died due to lumpy skin disease in nine Indian states as of August 23, 2022, according to the Union department of Animal Husbandry. Around 900,000 cattle have been infected, as the department tries to contain any further spread of the disease.  Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a viral illness, caused by lumpy skin disease virus...