KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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How will Indian Cities Fare if a Turkey-like Earthquake Strikes the Subcontinent?
On 6 February, 2023 Southern Turkey and the adjoining areas in Syria were hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake followed by several aftershocks. The tremors have flattened buildings and destroyed roads and other infrastructure. At least 35,000 casualties (UPDATE) have occurred across Turkey and Syria, with the vast majority being in the former nation. A news report cited the Turkish environment minister saying that 24,921 buildings across the region had collapsed. What...
More »Is India on track in reducing TB incidence and deaths?
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....
More »Maiden pharma, under WHO scanner for Gambia kids' deaths, flouted norms in 4 states -Milan Sharma
-IndiaToday.in The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has not yet barred the company from operations in India even as many of its medical products made for Indian use have also been found to be of substandard quality, often flagged by authorities. Ever since Maiden Pharmaceuticals has come under the scanner of the World Health Organisation (WHO) after being flagged for the four cough syrups manufactured in India and exported to Gambia...
More »What is Chhattisgarh’s ‘PDS scam’ & why ED wants SC to allow a CBI investigation into it -Bhadra Sinha
-ThePrint.in Alleged PDS scam was unearthed in 2015 by Chhattisgarh's Anti-Corruption Bureau. SC will hear ED's plea to transfer the probe to CBI on 26 September. New Delhi: Last week, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) made a startling disclosure in the Supreme Court with regard to the seven-year-old alleged Public Distribution System (PDS) or Nagrik Apurti Nigam (NAN) scam in Chhattisgarh. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta claimed that a sitting High Court judge of the...
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