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Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that obesity affects more than 40 per cent of American adults, placing them at higher risk for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer.

India reports 35,662 new COVID cases in last 24 hrs, over 55.07 Cr samples tested so far

Sep 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic

This comes a day after, India on Friday created a world record by administering the highest-ever single day COVID-19 vaccine doses with over 2.5 crore jabs given in a day on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday.

EXPLAINER: Why World Bank is under fire over set of rankings

Sep 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy, Risk Management

The report is important to many companies and investors around the world: They use the World Bank’s “Doing Business” report to help decide where to invest money, open manufacturing plants or sell products.

Eager to attract investment, countries around the world, especially developing economies, have sought to improve their rankings in the World Bank’s report.Sometimes, nations would pursue substantive policy changes — by, for example, making it easier for businesses to pay taxes, obtain loans or enforce contracts.

Biden asks world leaders to cut methane in climate fight

Sep 18, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News

Biden made the remarks during a virtual meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF), a follow-up to an Earth Day meeting he hosted in April to unveil new U.S. greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets and press other countries to do more to curb theirs.

The United Kingdom heeded the call, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledging to be among the first signatories of the Global Methane Pledge to reduce emissions of the harmful gas.

Argentina, Indonesia, Italy and Mexico also joined the alliance, while Ghana and Iraq signaled interest in joining, according to a White House summary of the meeting, which noted those countries represent six of the top 15 methane emitters globally.

Indianisation of our country’s legal system is need of the hour, says CJI Ramana

Sep 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management

“For parties to understand the implication of the judgment they are forced to spend more money. Courts need to be litigant-centric as they are the ultimate beneficiaries. The simplification of justice delivery should be our pressing concern. It is crucial to make justice delivery more transparent, accessible and effective,” he said.

Almost 90% of people in India’s financial capital have COVID-19 antibodies: survey

Sep 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic

Sero-prevalence was significantly higher in individuals who had received either first or both doses of COVID-19 vaccine as compared to their unvaccinated counterparts, the survey by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) noted.

COVID-19 booster dose not central theme at the moment: Government

Sep 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic

ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said administering both doses is absolutely essential and there should be no breakage in that.

“We need to remember one thing very clearly that booster dose is not the central theme at the moment in the scientific discussion as well as in the public health domain. Getting the two doses remains the major priority,” Bhargava said.

NIH grants $470 mln to conduct studies on long-term effects of COVID-19

Sep 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic

The grant is part of an initiative the main U.S. health research body launched in February to understand why symptoms of the illness persist long after infection in some cases – a condition known as “long COVID”- and why some individuals develop new or returning symptoms after recovery.

The most common prolonged symptoms include pain, headaches and fatigue, but the condition has been linked to a higher risk of kidney problems as well as smell distortions in other studies.

Govt ropes in global tech firms to transform India’s outmoded agricultural industry

Sep 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Technology

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration, which is seeking to ensure food security in the world’s second-most populous nation, has signed preliminary agreements with the three U.S. titans and a slew of local businesses starting April to share farm statistics it’s been gathering since coming to power in 2014.

PM Modi is betting the private sector can help farmers boost yields with apps and tools built from information such as crop output, soil quality and land holdings.