-The Indian Express New Delhi: It doesn't get bigger than this, in size, scale and rigour - scientists from one of India's top cancer institutes tracked 11,000 schoolchildren in Delhi for three years. They were drawn from 36 schools, each within 3 km of a pollution-tracking station. This unprecedented study, by the Kolkata-based Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI), found that key indicators of respiratory health, lung function to palpitation, Vision to blood...
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Lead from the Centre -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express Indian farmers are under stress this year. Earlier, many of them lost their crops in the kharif season, which was almost a drought with monsoon rains falling 12 per cent below their long-period average. Now unseasonal rains have impacted them adversely in the rabi season. Agri-GDP growth this year, expected to be a meagre 1.1 per cent before the unseasonal rains, may fall flat to just zero, if...
More »NE women drug users unaware of perils -Roopak Goswami
-The Telegraph Guwahati: A survey on women drug users in the Northeast has found that a majority of them were unaware of the perils of sharing needles to inject drugs. The study was commissioned by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) under its regional initiative. Termed Prevention of Transmission of HIV Amongst Drug Users in SAARC Countries, the initiative was in response to the gap of knowledge regarding women...
More »AAP budget paves way for subsidies, curbs spending
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Promising to bring a full budget with plans and schemes based on public suggestions around May, the Aam Aadmi Party government on Tuesday sought a vote on account for three months on the total budget estimates of Rs 37,750 crore for 2015-16. Voting will be done on Wednesday. A larger non-plan outlay of Rs 21,500 crore and a smaller plan size of Rs 15,350 crore...
More »Strong on the social sector side -Yashwant Sinha
-The Hindu Budget making is a complex exercise, especially in a country like India. Therefore, the parameters to judge the annual budget are also many. For me, the arithmetic of the budget is the first. According to the statements made by the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister, one expected the fiscal deficit targets to be adhered to. However the Finance Minister has extended it from two to three years....
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