-The Hindu Data show that 16 States (including Union Territories) faced a shortage while 18 States had sufficient or excess of blood units. India faced a 10 per cent shortage in its estimated blood requirement in 2015-16, an improvement from the 17 per cent shortfall reported in 2013-14, government data says. The estimated requirement is around 1.2 crore units per annum. In 2015-16, blood collection through various sources, including blood donation camps, was...
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No rain mercy in eastern India, flood toll now 59
-The Times of India delhi/ GUWAHATI/ BHOPAL: The flood situation aggravated in Assam, Meghalaya, Bihar and West Bengal on Saturday with the toll reaching 32 even as another 27 people died in lightning strikes in Odisha. Assam was the worst affected with 27 killed even as home minister Rajnath Singh made an aerial survey of the state's flood-hit districts. "Over 30 lakh people and 28 districts have been affected. The problem is...
More »IMD sees monsoon rains picking up pace in first week of August -Prerna Kapoor and Nikita Mehta
-Livemint.com Government forecaster India Meteorological Department (IMD) says rainfall was 4% below the long-period average for the country as a whole New delhi: After a slowdown in most parts of the country in the past week, the monsoon is expected to see a pickup in north-west and central India in the first week of August. Government forecaster India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday said rainfall was 4% below the long-period average (the...
More »30% ATMs of PSUs non-functional due to snags, no cash: RBI survey
-PTI New delhi: An RBI survey has found that 30% ATMs of public sector banks and 10% belonging to private banks were non-functional due to technical snags and no cash, among other reasons. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, minister of state for finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar said RBI has informed that it recently conducted a “representative sample survey” of about 4,000 ATMs situated in metro, semi-urban, urban and rural...
More »Untouched by economic growth: One in 4 beggars in India a Muslim, reveals census -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times New delhi: Almost a quarter of India’s 370,000 beggars are Muslims, newly released data from the 2011 Census show, reinforcing that the community still lags behind on most counts despite the country’s rapid economic growth. Muslims, the largest minority who make up 14.2% of India’s 1.25-billion population, come out pretty much at the bottom of most socio-economic indices, even a decade after a high-level government probe into their historical disadvantages...
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