-Scroll.in One persons died in Mumbai after allegedly being administered with Orofer FCM. The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration has announced that it will recall a batch of anti-anaemic medicine Orofer FCM after noting multiple incidents of alleged adverse reaction, including the suspected death of a 55-year-old man in Mumbai in September. Orofer FCM is manufactured by Pune-based Emcure Pharmaceuticals, which supplies medicines to 70 countries. It is administered in the form of...
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Gujarat: 130 die as suspension bridge over Machhu river collapses
-Reuters, PTI/ The Telegraph TV footage showed dozens of people clinging on to the cables and twisted remains of the collapsed structure as emergency teams struggled to rescue them Morbi: The death toll in Morbi suspension bridge collapse in Gujarat rose to 130 on Monday with rescue personnel recovering more bodies from the Machchhu river, a police official said, reports PTI. At least 60 people were killed when a pedestrian bridge over a...
More »Demolitions Not Only Continue to Wreck Livelihoods, Now Used as 'Punitive Measure’: Report
-TheWire.in Governments demolished 36,486 houses in 2021 – meaning at least 100 homes were destroyed every day. In other words, at least 567 were evicted every day or 24 people lost their homes every hour. New Delhi: The latest report of the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) on forced evictions in India has pointed to the new disturbing trend of “demolitions as a punitive measure” by various state governments and noted...
More »The future of old times in India -Jean Drèze and Esther Duflo
-The Hindu Near-universal social security pensions would be a good start to a radical expansion of public support for the elderly Life expectancy in India has more than doubled since Independence — from around 32 years in the late 1940s to 70 years or so today. Many countries have done even better, but this is still a historical achievement. Over the same period, the fertility rate has crashed from about six children...
More »India’s ‘salaried class’ shrank during Covid, Muslims hit hardest, govt data suggests -Nikhil Rampal
-ThePrint.in India’s salaried class shrank by 2.7 percentage points during pandemic, govt’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) shows. But data for religious minorities, women is even bleaker. New Delhi: There’s much to lament in India’s post-Covid job market, where recovery has been painfully slow. However, government data suggests that when it comes to the salaried sector, the participation of religious minorities — Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians, in that order — has been...
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