-Outlook New Delhi: India is one of the ten countries in South-East Asia Region where malaria is endemic and kill thousands of people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Forty per cent of the global Population at risk of malaria live in the South-East Asia Region-- home to a quarter of the world's Population. Malaria is endemic in 10 of the 11 countries of the Region which includes India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic...
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Sharp rise in FAO Food Price Index
-FAO Rome: The FAO Food Price Index rose sharply in March, up 4.8 points, or 2.3 percent, to an average of 212.8, the highest level since May 2013. "The Index was influenced, as expected, by unfavourable weather conditions in the US and Brazil and geopolitical tensions in the Black Sea region," said Abdolreza Abbassian, FAO Senior Economist. These and other influences are reviewed in greater detail in the AMIS Market Monitor report, the...
More »Lok Sabha polls 2014: Why is climate change not an election issue?-Apurv Kumar Mishra
-DNA The Indian political class is completely disengaged with the environment because the issue does not get votes. And the poor, who will be the most affected by climate change, are mostly unaware about it, though it is an existential issue for our country. In William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, a series of bizarre events happen in Rome before Caesar's assassination, leading a soothsayer to warn him: "Beware the ides of...
More »Climate change impacting entire planet, raising risk of hunger, floods, conflict –UN report
-The United Nations The effects of climate change are already occurring in all continents and across the oceans, and the world, for the most part, is ill-prepared for their risks, says a United Nations report issued today, which also warns that while action can be taken, managing the phenomenon's impacts will be difficult on a rapidly warming planet. The report, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, from Working Group II of...
More »Gujarat’s growth for growth’s sake -Ashok Kotwal and Arka Roy Chaudhuri
-The Indian Express Data shows that the state is high on growth, low on development. What does this say about the government's priorities? No matter what the political leanings, many people have come to accept the premise that Gujarat has performed a lot better than the rest of India in terms of development over the last decade. People are even talking about the Gujarat model of development as something for the whole...
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