-Scroll.in An Assam MP explains why he introduced the Climate Migrants (Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill in Lok Sabha. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, nearly five million Indians were forced to leave their homes because of climate-related events in 2021. While many of these people were displaced temporarily, internal displacement due to climatic conditions stands to be a major challenge for India in the years to come. Rising water levels, according...
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PRIce cut on TB drug to expand access
-The Hindu Business Line Agreement between Viatris, MedAccess and TBA to slash cost by 34 per cent on pretomanid A new agreement among drugmaker Viatris, MedAccess, and TB Alliance looks to reduce the PRIce of pretomanid, a drug used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, by 34 per cent. The agreement will help expand access to this critical new treatment in more than 140 countries, including those with the highest TB burden, said a joint...
More »India set to offer wheat to flour millers, biscuit makers to tame PRIces -Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav
-Reuters/ Livemint.com Wheat PRIces have surged in India this year after a sudden rise in temperatures hit crop yields and output India is set to offer 2 to 3 million tonnes of wheat to bulk consumers such as flour millers and biscuit makers as part of efforts to cool record high PRIces, two government sources said, even as state reserves have dropped to the lowest in six years. Wheat PRIces have surged in...
More »Most Jharkhand School Students Forgot To Read And Write After Covid: Survey -Akhil Kumar
-NDTV.com The survey focussed on government PRImary and upper-PRImary schools where at least 50% of the children enrolled come from scheduled caste (SC) or scheduled tribe (ST) families. New Delhi: Schools in Jharkhand are struggling with abysmal infrastructure, low attendance, a shortage of teachers, and inadequate funding after the Covid pandemic, a recent survey of 138 PRImary and upper-PRImary schools revealed. In a majority of these schools, teachers felt that "most" pupils...
More »53% teachers say most PRImary students in Jharkhand forgot to read, write after Covid-19: Survey
-Scroll.in An acute shortage of teachers was also noticed in the state, a report prepared by Economist Jean Dreze stated. Fifty-three percent of teachers who were part of a survey have said that most students in PRImary and upper-PRImary government schools in Jharkhand had forgotten how to read and write by the time schools reopened in February 2022 after the coronavirus pandemic. PRImary and upper-PRImary schools were closed in Jharkhand since the onset...
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