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Kolkata second most polluted metro city in India -Jayanta Basu
-The Telegraph The report stated that the Indian subcontinent was the most polluted region of the world during 2021 Kolkata was the second most polluted metro city in India and 60th most polluted city in the world in 2021. The city’s annual PM (particulate matter) 2.5 level, the most toxic ultrafine particulate, was nearly 12 times above the limit set by the World Health Organization, says a recently released international report on air...
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-The Hindu Ensuring government support for financial incentives, upgrading technologies and reskilling labour are key challenges South Asia became a major player in the global textiles and clothing market with the onset of the third wave of global production. Bangladesh joined the league in the 1980s, owing to the outbreak of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Supportive industrial policy was an instrumental factor in the 1990s, with zero duty on raw...
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-ThePrint.in In 2019, 25.79% Indians cleared Foreign Medical Graduate Exam, a test aspirants with degrees from certain countries need to clear for practise in India. Figure was 14.68% in 2020 and 23.83% in 2021. New Delhi: Every year, thousands of Indians with medical degrees from foreign universities appear for the Foreign Medical Graduate Exam (FMGE) — a screening test conducted by the National Board of Examination (NBE) and mandated by the National...
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-TheWire.in After being classified as 'electoral autocracy' last year by Sweden's V-Dem Institute, India continues to hold on to its dubious honour even this year. New Delhi: India has figured in the top 10 autocratising countries of the world along with El Salvador, Turkey and Hungary, with projections ominously indicating that there will be a further decline in democracy in the country, according to the latest report of the V-Dem Institute on...
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