Like the fight against poverty and hunger, the progress made by mankind against tuberculosis (TB) in the years up to 2019 has either slowed, stalled, or reversed, and global TB targets are off track due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, although the reported number of people newly diagnosed with TB decreased from 7.1 million to 5.8 million between 2019 and 2020, the number went up to 6.4 million in 2021....

-Hindustan Times Increasing spells of summer heatwave in northwestern India, thought to be linked to climate change, are hurting milk productivity, or output per cattle, while raising costs of production for farmers. Increasing spells of summer heatwave in northwestern India, thought to be linked to climate change, are hurting milk productivity, or output per cattle, while raising costs of production for farmers, a study by the flagship National Dairy Research Institute has...

-Hindustan Times The survey picked Nagapattinam, Madurai and Tiruppur specifically to see how it benefits women in various sectors, such as agriculture, trade and industry. The survey was conducted in August with more than a 1000 frequent travellers and a report was released by the government on Saturday   Chennai: A survey by Tamil Nadu’s planning commission has revealed that the government’s flagship scheme providing free bus travel for women in state-owned buses...

-Hindustan Times Union minister of state for health, Bharati Pravin Pawar, while presenting India’s national statement on combating AMR at the Third Global High-Level Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance recently said that India was prioritising development and implementation of state action plans for containment of AMR across sectors India plans to strengthen its network of antimicrobial resistance surveillance labs that it set up to monitor the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) situation in the...

-Hindustan Times Under the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act Section 26(2), a recommendation by the RBI’s Central Board precedes any decision to demonetise any series of currency notes. The Supreme Court on Friday asked the central government if the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had informed it that demonetisation will result in the withdrawal of over 86% currency in circulation. Making a query to the Centre as part of its consideration of...