-The Indian Express Union Minister of State for Home Kishan Reddy said security forces have identified a large number of "troublemakers, instigators and mob mobilisers" and various preventive measures taken against them, including detention under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) and preventive arrests. New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that 765 people were arrested for their involvement in stonepelting incidents...
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What women need in post-disaster situations -Lalita Panicker
-Hindustan Times Studies show that natural disasters tend to lower life expectancy more in women than in men. The recent Bihar floods and flood alert warnings in Kerala are just the latest in a long line of natural disasters that periodically strike in India, leaving behind a trail of devastation. The focus afterwards is on assessing the loss of lives and economic cost and, of course, rehabilitation. But though it is...
More »Carcinogen Aflatoxin detected in FSSAI milk survey samples -Meenakshi Sushma
-Down to Earth The highest rates of aflatoxin contamination were found in Delhi, Tamil Nadu and Kerala Traces of Aflatoxin M1 (AFM1), a deadly carcinogen, were found in some of the milk samples tested as part of a national survey by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). The final results of the milk survey were released on October 18, 2019. Out of the 6,432 total milk samples that were tested, 368...
More »India does not test for feared carcinogen in food -Reena Gupta
-Newsclick.in Glyphosate use exposes India’s broken pesticide-herbicide regulations. Glyphosate has been in the news in the past few months for all the wrong reasons. In three separate verdicts in California, courts have held the herbicide responsible for causing cancer. In the latest case, the jury has awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who claimed that exposure to glyphosate triggered their cancer. These cases mark the first time that citizens have successfully...
More »Delhi: DDC, Harvard tie up to study free bus rides, women's Safety
-The Indian Express The study aims to analyse mobility patterns and perceived Safety before and after the policy’s launch, using several comparison groups of individuals less likely to be impacted by it. New Delhi: The think-tank of the Delhi government, Dialogue & Development Commission, is collaborating with a research team from Harvard University and the World Bank to study the impact of free bus rides for women on their Safety and...
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