-The Hindu Over past 10 days, the Balangir police have prevented 500 workers from migrating to other States KANTABANJI (ODISHA): Juta Majhi was just a few kilometres away from the Kantabanji railway station in Odisha when the Balangir district police intercepted him last week. Mr. Majhi, 38, a resident of Badibahal under the Khaprakhol police station in the district, and his family members were planning to board a train to Karnataka and travel...
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Tuberculosis deaths and disease increase during the COVID-19 pandemic
-Press release by World Health Organisation dated 27 October, 2022 An estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020, and 1.6 million people died from TB (including 187 000 among HIV positive people), according to the World Health Organization’s 2022 Global TB report. The burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) also increased by 3% between 2020 and 2021, with 450 000 new cases...
More »A renewable energy revolution, rooted in agriculture -Ramesh Chand and Konda Reddy Chavva
-The Hindu In Punjab, a project to use of paddy straw to produce compressed bio gas is one that is replicable across India, and can transform the rural economy The beginnings of a renewable energy revolution rooted in agriculture are taking shape in India with the first bio-energy plant of a private company in Sangrur district of Punjab having commenced commercial operations on October 18. It will produce Compressed Bio Gas (CBG)...
More »Dengue patient injected with ‘mosambi’ juice | U.P. hospital building to be sealed for ‘demolition’ -Mayank Kumar
-The Hindu Platelets “stored in an improper way” was transfused to the patient, not sweet lime juice, says Prayagraj District Magistrate. Amid allegations of intravenously administering mosambi (sweet lime) juice instead of platelets to a 32-year-old dengue patient, who later died, in Uttar Pradesh, the Prayagraj Development Authority on Wednesday issued a notice to the Global Hospital and Trauma Centre, asking it to vacate the premises by October 28, 11 a.m. so...
More »Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee approves commercial cultivation of genetically modified mustard yet again
-The Hindu Proposal to go for Environment Ministry’s clearance; activists oppose The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) that functions under the Union Environment Ministry has yet again cleared the proposal for the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) mustard. The recommendation will now again go for the approval of the Environment Ministry. Though the GEAC had cleared the proposal in 2017, the Ministry had vetoed it and suggested that the GEAC hold...
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