-The Telegraph New Delhi: The sale of drug combinations containing last-resort antibiotics is rising faster than overall antibiotics sales in India, health researchers have said in a study that also highlights the government's failure to stop the sale of irrational and unapproved antibiotic cocktails. While total antibiotics sales in India rose 26 per cent over a four-year period, says the study, there was a 174 per cent increase in the sales of...
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From 'Job-less' to 'Job-loss' Economy: What is PM Modi Doing -Savera
-Newsclick.in The falling work participation rate shows that the economy is in deep crisis. Various other economic indicators show this as well. In a stark and chilling confirmation of what the whole country has known for some time, a govt. report shows that Indian workforce (those actually working) declined from about 54% of the working age population in 2011-12 to 51% in 2015-16. While the working age population increased by 2.9% per...
More »India's Hunger Problem Explained Through Charts
-TheWire.in India is one of the countries with the “lowest reduction in hunger” in the nine years since the last Global Hunger Index was calculated. India is still scraping the barrel to feed it’s hungry. According to the new global hunger rankings by the Global Hunger Index (GHI), India has been ranked 100 out of 119 countries. India’s performance on the GHI is described by the report as being “serious” in its...
More »New Recommendations to Regulate Online Hate Speech Could Pose More Problems Than Solutions -Amber Sinha
-TheWire.in The T.K. Viswanathan committee’s recommendations could prove to be dangerous for free speech if acted upon without resolving its flaws. It was reported last week that an expert committee headed by T.K. Viswanathan, former secretary general of Lok Sabha, recommended that the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Information Technology Act be amended to include stringent penal provisions regarding online hate speech. While this report has...
More »FSSAI enforces Supreme Court's ban on gutka, pan masala
-The Indian Express The Food Safety and Standards Regulations, 2.3.4, prohibit the use of tobacco and nicotine as ingredients in any food products and bans sale of all food products where tobacco is present as ingredient such as gutka and pan masala. Pune: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued a directive on October 9 banning the manufacture, sale and distribution of gutka and pan masala (with tobacco and...
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