-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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RBI's Inflation Mandate Failure Report Cannot Be Made Public, Government Tells Parliament
-ANI/ NDTV.com The government told Parliament that the RBI had submitted its report on the inflation target failure, but it cannot be made public. New Delhi: The government on Monday told Parliament that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had submitted its report on the breach of the inflation target for three consecutive quarters, but it cannot be made public per the provisions of the RBI Act. Union Minister of State for Finance...
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 »Parliamentary panel calls for free cancer treatment -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph Committee asks govt to take steps to strengthen radiotherapy facilities in the country, expressing concerns about inadequate infrastructure A parliamentary panel has asked the Centre to provide free cancer treatment to middle-class households through a government-funded health insurance scheme and to cap cancer diagnostics and treatment services in government and private hospitals. The parliamentary standing committee on health has also called on the government to take steps to strengthen radiotherapy facilities...
More »It’s incomprehensible as to how data of nearly 46 years is missing altogether, says Parliament panel looking into hostel scheme for Scheduled Caste students -Abhinay Lakshman
-The Hindu Only 819 hostels — 391 for girls and 271 for boys — have been sanctioned since the BJRCY scheme’s revision in 2007, against the target of constructing one each in every Block headquarters of low literacy districts The Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC) on Social Justice and Empowerment on Monday flayed the Union government over 46 years of missing data for the Central scheme to construct hostels for Scheduled Caste boys...
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