-The Hindu Business Line World over rice production is likely to fall due to a combination of drought and floods THRee developments over the past couple of months have put the global rice market in focus. First, the India curbed rice exports by banning shipments of fully broken rice and imposing a 20 per cent duty on white rice exports. Second, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar told the...
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After measles, experts worry typhoid could pose the next health challenge as India delays vaccine -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-Scroll.in The country already has a high typhoid burden and increasing drug resistance could led to a rise in treatment cost and recovery time. The measles outbreak in Mumbai, followed by Ranchi, Ahmedabad and Malappuram over the past month has drawn attention to the large number of unvaccinated children. Over 16,000 suspected cases have been recorded in India. Of the 20 children who have died of measles since October 26 in the...
More »Young people dropping dead due to cardiac arrests, here's who are at risk and how to prevent -Samrat Sharma
-IndiaToday.in What is more concerning is that India is already more vulnerable to heart diseases and sees more cardiovascular deaths than the global average. Incidents of young people walking around the streets, working out in the gym, or even on the wedding stage are suddenly dropping dead due to cardiac arrests. And, this is happening not only in India but around the world. The trend has become more prominent as more cases...
More »Melting glaciers THReaten China and India’s hydropower ambitions -Alok Gupta
-The Third Pole/ Scroll.in The dams the two countries are relying on may not be able to generate much power if avalanches, landslides and floods continue worsening. As glaciers shrink and monsoon rainfall becomes more unpredictable due to climate change, uncertainty around the viability of hydropower projects in the Hindu Kush Himalayas is increasing. A recent study on the state of a glacier on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau raises questions about the...
More »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...
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