-IndiaToday.in While 56,007 people died in accidents on national highways, there were 37,963 deaths on state highways and 60,002 deaths on other roads. In Short * Road accidents increased by 12.6% y-o-y in 2021. * Fatalities and injuries rose by 16.9% y-o-y and 10.39% y-o-y, respectively. * At least one out of 10 people killed on roads across the world is from India. India witnessed as many as 4,12,432 road accidents in 2021 in which 1,53,972...

-The Hindu Business Line Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) is the new buzzword among development professionals and NGOs — both public and private! Everyone wants to mobilise the community and establish FPOs. Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) is the new buzzword among development professionals and NGOs — both public and private! Everyone wants to mobilise the community and establish FPOs. FPOs present the power of aggregation, farmers’ come together, form an organisation, which collectively buys...

Like the fight against poverty and hunger, the progress made by mankind against tuberculosis (TB) in the years up to 2019 has either slowed, stalled, or reversed, and global TB targets are off track due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, although the reported number of people newly diagnosed with TB decreased from 7.1 million to 5.8 million between 2019 and 2020, the number went up to 6.4 million in 2021....

-Outlook India How going back to traditional farming practices is changing the lives of Bhil Adivasis in the hilly tribal village of Gamaniya Hameera in Rajasthan. Twenty-eight year old Kailash Nathu, a member of Bhil Adivasi community, recalls a horrific incident from 2018, when like very year, he migrated from his village Gamaniya Hameera, all the way to Gujarat to find work as a daily-waged labourer. Nathu was not the only villager...

-The Hindu Policymakers can ill-afford to drop their guard in the fight against inflation October’s inflation data point to a welcome softening in price gains that should offer some succour to monetary policy authorities, who have been battling to rein in runaway inflation since the beginning of this year. Retail inflation, or price gains based on the Consumer Price Index, slowed to 6.77% last month, from September’s 7.41%, aided by an appreciable...