-The Telegraph People with disorders may appear healthy but are susceptible to dangerous patterns of cardiac electrical activity that could cause palpitations, blackouts or even death About one in 100 otherwise healthy Indians carries genetic variations linked to electrical disorders in the heart that can lead to sudden cardiac death, a study of 1,029 genomes has indicated. The study, the first in India to estimate through genomes the population prevalence of disorders called...
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Lankans Flee To India Amid Country's Worst Economic Meltdown: 10 Points - Akhil Kumar
-NDTV.com Three elderly people have died waiting in queues to secure fuel since Saturday, police have said. New Delhi: As Sri Lanka faces its worst-ever economic crisis, with electricity blackouts and shortage of essential goods leading to massive protests, its nationals have started seeking refuge in India. Here's your 10-point cheatsheet to this big story: * The Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday apprehended six Sri Lankan nationals including three children, all residents of Jaffna...
More »Russia’s war in Ukraine is crushing Sri Lanka’s $81 billion economy -Anusha Ondaatjie
-ThePrint.in Hit by soaring oil import costs and a dip in tourism revenue, Sri Lanka is racing to avert a default amid dwindling forex holdings. Colombo: Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has caused a humanitarian crisis and convulsed global financial markets, is now threatening to crush an $81 billion economy more than 4,000 miles away in the Indian Ocean. Hit by soaring oil import costs and a dip in tourism revenue, Sri Lanka...
More »'Digital divide' persists despite the country's desire to become a digital giant
A recent report of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) brings forth the dichotomy between digital divide and India’s transition towards a cashless economy. The rural-urban divide in access to computer and internet is quite stark, according to the report entitled 'Key Indicators of Household Social Consumption on Education in India, July 2017 to June 2018'. The 75th round National Sample Survey (NSS) report on education finds that...
More »Death in parched farm field reveals growing India water tragedy -Rakteem Katakey, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Archana Chaudhary
-Live Mint/ Bloomberg Conflicts between industry and farmers getting worse as water becomes more and more scarce Sachin Ingale slipped out of his family's two-room, white-painted mud hut about 4pm and walked into their farm field where the 22-year-old took a deep swig of pesticide from a plastic bottle. He died later that evening. Four months later, the mercury is pushing 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in his village in...
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