-The Indian Express English-speaking Indians are concerned with deciphering what is real and what is fake on the Internet at similar rates - roughly 57 per cent - to respondents in the US and Turkey, according to the survey. Supporters of the BJP, and to a somewhat less extent those of the Congress-led UPA and former UPA supporters, trust news in the media more than English-speaking Indians who identified themselves as...
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The cost of crop burning in India is three times the country's health budget -Faizi Noor Ahmad
-Scroll.in The health bill from crop burning is Rs 2 lakh crore annually. India’s five-year air-pollution-related health bill from burning crop stubble can pay for about 700 premier All India Institutes of Medical Sciences or India’s 2019 central government health budget nearly 21 times over, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data from a new Study. Burning of crop residue or stubble remains a key contributor to air pollution over northern India, despite...
More »Migration in Bengal delta driven by livelihood issues, gender disparity -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu Most migrants are in the age group of 20-30 years Kolkata: Economic reasons are the precipitating factor for migration in the Indian Bengal Delta that comprises the Sunderbans reveals an international Study titled Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECMA). The Study also points out that there is huge gender disparity when it comes to those migrating from the region. The Study which covers 51 blocks of districts of...
More »'Pink bollworm is out of control in India' -KV Kurmanath
-The Hindu Business Line Arizona, China wins war, but for India it’s too late, says US expert Hyderabad: That pink bollworm has developed resistance to Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab (or Bollgard-II) — the two biotech solutions currently available in India to tackle pink bollworm — is no news. Virulent attack of the pest is destroying the fibre crop on lakhs of acres across the country, particularly in the West, Central and Southern parts. An American...
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-The Indian Express Economic data raises questions about missed opportunities and expending of political capital by NDA government. As India’s political parties switch to poll mode, economic data released in the past few days at the end of the NDA government’s term paints a far from rosy picture. Industrial growth in January slowed down to 1.7 per cent compared to the 2.6 per cent growth in factory output in December last...
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