-The Hindu The National Suicide Prevention Strategy must cascade down to every district The best first step towards addressing a malaise is to recognise that it exists. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’s recently published National Suicide Prevention Strategy fits right there. It has been a long time coming, but the Strategy, finally in the public realm, calls attention to the massive burden of suicides in the country, and initiates steps...
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Bihar: Reducing Lightning-Related Deaths a new Challenge -Mohd. Imran Khan
-Newsclick.in According to the DMD's figures, 375 people were killed by lightning strikes in the state in 2022. Patna: Climate change-induced extreme weather events like increasing lightning strikes killed more than 1100 people, mostly poor, in Bihar, in the last three years. As per the officials of the state disaster management department (DMD), the increase in deaths in lightning incidents has emerged as a new challenge despite a massive campaign to create...
More »No decision yet on extending PMGKAY beyond Dec: Food subsidy to cross Rs 3 trillion this fiscal -Sandip Das
-Financial Express 2022-23 expenses likely to be the second Highest since FY21 The government’s food subsidy expenses in the current fiscal are likely to cross Rs 3.1 trillion, up 50% from the outlay made at the beginning of the year. Sources told FE that the estimated food subsidy expenses in 2022-23 would be the second Highest since FY21, when the finance ministry had made a provision of Rs 5.4 trillion, of which Rs...
More »Retail inflation for milk is High, Higher for dairy products
-The Hindu Business Line Average prices of liquid milk in the North Eastern region saw the Highest increase between January 1 and November 22, followed by the North, East, West and South regions. Inflationary pressures on milk remain unabated as Mother Dairy has decided to hike prices on two of its milk variants, effective Monday. While milk prices have been on the rise this year, dairy products such as curd and ice...
More »Extreme Weather Events To Rise Manifold In India Due To Climate Change: IIT Gandhinagar Study
-PTI/ NDTV.com The IIT Gandhinagar study Highlighted that mega-heatwaves occurred during the summer of 1995 and 1998, with 20 per cent and 8 per cent of the country being affected by sequential extremes. New Delhi: The frequency of extreme weather events such as floods and heatwaves is projected to rise manifold in India in the future due to climate change, according to a study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology,...
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