-Press released by Christian Aid dated 27 December, 2022 * Study identifies the year’s 10 costliest extreme events influenced by the climate crisis - each caused more than $3 billion in damage. * Report also examines 10 other extreme events that caused massive human and environmental damage, mostly in the poorest countries. * The floods that submerged parts of Pakistan in June displaced 7m people and caused more than $30 billion in estimated...
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73 species critically endangered in India, says Centre in Rajya Sabha -Jayashree Nandi
-Hindustan Times The 73 species include nine species of mammals, 18 birds, 26 reptiles and 20 amphibians, according to IUCN criteria. New Delhi: Seventy-three species in India are critically endangered, the Union environment ministry informed the Rajya Sabha citing a report of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), up from 47 in 2011. The 73 species include nine species of mammals, 18 birds, 26 reptiles and 20 amphibians, according to IUCN...
More »Expedite categorisation of de-notified, nomadic, semi-nomadic tribes: House panel -Abhinay Lakshman
-The Hindu Delay would increase their suffering and deprive them of welfare schemes, Parliamentary panel on Social Justice and Empowerment said The Parliamentary panel on Social Justice and Empowerment has pulled up the Union government over the “very slow” process to categorise over 260 denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes under either the SC/ST/OBC lists, which government officials have pointed to for the delay in the approval of benefits under the SEED (Scheme...
More »BF.7 and XBB: ‘India doing fine, masks hold little value if…’ says Dr Gagandeep Kang -Poulomi Ghosh
-Hindustan Times Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang said India does not need restrictions but precautions but China will see a lot of infections like that of India's second wave. Virologist Dr Gagandeep Kang on Friday broke down the current Covid situation in India in comparison with China and said India is doing fine and won't require travel restrictions but China will see 'lots and lots of infections', similar to what India witnessed during...
More »The need to make cancer drugs affordable -Biswajit Dhar and Chetali Rao
-The Hindu With the Rajya Sabha Standing Committee on Health expressing concern over the high cost of cancer treatment, the Government invoking Section 100 of the Patents Act is a way forward The subject of the spiralling costs of cancer medicines and their implications that have frequently been highlighted the world over were dwelled on in a recent report (“Cancer Care Plan and Management”) by the Rajya Sabha’s Standing Committee on Health....
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