Particulate pollution is so severe that it shortens the average Indian’s life expectancy by more than four years relative to what it would be if World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines were met. NEW DELHI: India is the world’s second most polluted country, slightly trailing only Nepal, the Energy Policy Institute at the University …
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Students at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the city have developed a “stand and pee device” for women to avoid dirty public washrooms.The device, “Sanfe (Sanitation for female)”, was launched on the World Toilet Day today. It is priced at Rs. 10 and has been tried and tested at the AIIMS. The device has been launched …
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If the government decides to feed all its hungry people, India’s tag of a net exporting country will be easily lost. India is riding high on the agricultural success story it has written over the past few years. Record-breaking food-grain production was registered in seven years in the past decade. From 217 million tonnes in 2006-07, the country’s production …
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Professor Anju Seth, an alumnus of IIM Calcutta, has become the first woman director of the institute. Professor Seth has most recently held the position of Pamplin Professor of Management at Virginia Tech, USA. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she was Professor of Business Administration at University of Illinois. She completed her Ph.D. from the University …
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UNESCO report says that 80% of seasonal migrant children in 7 cities lacked access to education, and 40% were likely to end up in work. Literacy levels in rural households of India dip with seasonal migration, the UNESCO global education monitoring report 2019 has observed, bringing out the educational challenges thrown up by migration. “In India, 10.7 …
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