-Scroll.in The health bill from crop burning is Rs 2 lakh crore annually. India’s five-year air-pollution-related health bill from burning crop stubble can pay for about 700 premier All India Institutes of Medical Sciences or India’s 2019 central government health budget nearly 21 times over, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data from a new study. Burning of crop residue or stubble remains a key contributor to air pollution over northern India, despite...
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Women who eat meat less prone to disease: study -Astha Saxena
-The Indian Express Results show that women from Kashmir who consumed up to five non-vegetarian meals a week were found to be at a lesser risk of these diseases irrespective of whether they were suffering from PCOS or were healthy, in comparison to women in Delhi who followed a vegetarian diet. New Delhi: A joint study by doctors at AIIMS, Delhi, and Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) on dietary habits...
More »Giving info on graft complaints against ministers will be cumbersome: PMO
-PTI Replying to an RTI query, it said the PMO receives complaints against various Union ministers and high-level functionaries from time to time The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has refused to share details of alleged corruption complaints received against Union ministers, saying providing such information "may be a subjective as well as a cumbersome exercise". The PMO's assertion comes at a time when a senior officer in the country's premier probe agency --...
More »PMO received GD Agrawal's letters on Ganga, but did not take action: RTI -Kavita Upadhyay
-The Indian Express Agrawal had written letters to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 24, and again on June 13 and June 23, requesting steps to be taken towards a clean and free-flowing Ganga. A month after environmentalist and Ganga activist Professor GD Agrawal’s death, a reply to an RTI query has revealed that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had received Agrawal’s letters demanding specific steps for the conservation of the...
More »Pollution causing cancellation of surgeries at Delhi hospitals, say doctors -Anonna Dutt
-Hindustan Times Every year, the number of planned surgeries that get cancelled in major Delhi hospitals sees a threefold rise owing to patients failing pre-anaesthesia check-up due to throat, airways and lung infections compounded by pollution, doctors said. New Delhi: Every year, the number of planned surgeries that get cancelled in major Delhi hospitals sees a threefold rise owing to patients failing pre-anaesthesia check-up due to throat, airways and lung infections compounded...
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