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 39 pc people in HP suffer from obesity, 11.5 pc diabetic: Study

”Himachal Pradesh ranks seventh in the country in terms of prevalence of type-two diabetes, and has a higher prevalence than the national average as well as its neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttarakhand,” he said

The prevalence is same among males and females, but is higher in urban areas as compared to rural areas, Mokta added.

He said that according to the study, around half of those suffering from diabetes have not been diagnosed with the disease and are unaware about the problem.

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India tells Twitter to comply with order to block accounts – sources

Twitter blocked dozens of accounts in India on Monday after the country’s Home Affairs Ministry complained that users were posting content aimed at inciting violence, a government had previously told Reuters.

But it later unblocked some of these accounts, prompting New Delhi to write to the U.S. social media giant demanding that it obey the government order, the technology ministry sources, who declined to be named as the notice to Twitter was not public, told Reuters.

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93,000 cybercrimes related to sexual exploitation, hate in 3 years: MHA

As per data maintained and published by the National Crime Records Bureau, 21,796 cybercrimes were registered in 2017, 27,248 in 2018 and 44,546 in 2019.”The motives behind cyber crime in the country include personal revenge, fraud, sexual exploitation, inciting hate, spreading piracy, stealing information etc,” Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said in a written reply to a question.

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SJM and Employees’ unions oppose govt’s move to privatise a PSU general insurer

SJM National Co-Convenor Ashwani Mahajan stated that the announcement of privatisation of public sector banks and an insurance company is  worrying.After 2018, that had announced the merger of three PSU general insurers, National Insurance Company, Oriental Insurance Company and United India Insurance Company, which was called off in 2020, the announcement in Budget-2021-22 to privatise one of the PSU general insurers,  has again given rise to conjecture and confusion, said a statement by officials of different uinons, which had supported the mergers of three companies. .

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