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India reports 30,773 new COVID-19 cases, 309 deaths in last 24 hours
Struggling economies, widening inequality and millions vulnerable: the urgent need for vaccine equity
Inequitable vaccine distribution is not only leaving millions or billions of people vulnerable to the deadly virus, it is also allowing even more deadly variants to emerge and spread across the globe.
Moreover, an unequal distribution of vaccines will deepen inequality and exaggerate the gap between rich and poor and will reverse decades of hard-won progress on human development.
WHO has set a global target of 70 per cent of the population of all countries to be vaccinated by mid-2022, but to reach this goal a more equitable access to vaccines will be needed.Research suggests that enough vaccines will be produced in 2021 to cover 70 per cent of the global population of 7.8 billion. More than 4.6 million people have died from the virus since it swept across the globe from the beginning of 2020, but it’s expected that the rate of people dying will slow if more people are vaccinated.
Small cars too need adequate number of airbags to ensure safety: Gadkari
Mostly, lower middle-class people buy small economy cars and “if their car won’t have airbags and when accidents happen, then it may result in deaths. So, I appeal to all car manufacturers to provide a minimum of six airbags across all variants and segments of the vehicle,” he said.
While acknowledging that additional airbags in small cars will increase their cost by at least Rs 3,000-4,000, Gadkari also said, “in our country, poor should also get protection (in case of road accidents)”.
‘Illogical’ prejudice against diesel vehicles, allow free movement inside cities, says Force Motors
Last month, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari asked vehicle manufacturers to discourage production and sale of diesel engine vehicles, and urged them to promote other technologies.
”The ill-founded local area restrictions on use of diesel powered vehicles that actually meet the nationally mandated norms, are illogical. While the movement for achieving zero emissions by way of achieving full electric traction for all segments of automobiles is at least a decade away, the diesel vehicles that meet the mandated norms are an excellent solution even in the inner cities,” the automaker noted.
Breastfeeding trends show most developing countries may miss global nutrition targets
Research has illuminated the longer-term health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding for the mother and child. These benefits include reducing the risk of overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence and certain non-communicable diseases later in life and enhancing human capital in adulthood.
Additionally, breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast and ovarian cancers, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure among mothers.
Way forward Breastfeeding requires a lot of effort from mothers and support from wider networks, including their families, communities, workplaces, health systems, and government leadership.
Most FDI proposals in 3 depts from nations sharing land border with India
As per that decision, FDI proposals from these countries need government approval for investments in India in any sector.
The major sectors under which these FDI proposals mainly came included manufacturing of heavy machinery, automobile, auto components; computer software and hardware; trading, ecommerce, and manufacturing of light engineering and electrical, the official said.
Besides, these three departments, the ministry of new and renewable energy and department of pharmaceuticals have also received several proposals from these countries, the official added.
Most of the foreign investment proposals have come from China and Hong Kong. Besides, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh too have submitted certain applications.
Labour codes unlikely to be implemented this fiscal year: report
The implementation of these laws assumes significance because once these are implemented there would be reduction in take-home pay of employees and firms have to bear higher provident fund liability.
Investments via P-notes stand at Rs 97,744 crore till August
The assets under custody (AUC) of FPI’s have almost touched 52 lakh crore in August 2021, which is a record high. It was at Rs 48.36 lakh crore in the preceding month.
Meanwhile, FPIs infused a net sum of Rs 2,083 crore in equities last month and Rs 12,144 crore in the debt market.
India becoming destination country for healthy food, says Tomar at G-20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting
“The Government of India has emphasised on re-introducing traditional food items including millet, other nutritious cereals, fruits and vegetables, fish, dairy and organic products in the diet of the people. Their production has been phenomenal in India in recent years and India is becoming a destination country for healthy food items,” said Tomar during the second day’s session of the G-20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting.
C-DOT developing tech to tap all media for broadcasting disaster alerts
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) is developing the system for National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and expects it to be ready in 18 months, CDOT chairman and executive director Rajkumar Upadhyay told PTI.
”We are developing a pan-India integrated alert system which can send out alerts across all mediums at one go in an emergency situation. It will be deployed by NDMA. Once the system is deployed, the department concerned will have to just mark the area on the map by pen and the alert will go across all mediums in that area in the local language,” Upadhyay said.