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Road traffic accidents take a toll

Research published at the end of last year spotlighted the leading cause of premature mortality among young men in India: road traffic accidents.  In 2017, 2.2 lakh Indians lost their lives due to injuries sustained on the country’s roads. Males accounted for the overwhelming majority of such fatalities, with 77 percent of road traffic accident …

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India’s pollution crisis: 2 million lives a year

Air pollution continues to claim millions of lives every year with India leading the world in this regard. More than two million lives are lost to breathing toxic air in the country every year, in a grim reminder that India’s pollution crisis is among the leading threats to its environment and to public health. The …

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‘No conclusive evidence’ – Government on pollution, disease and deaths

Air pollution is virtually universally acknowledged as a public health emergency in India, with swathes of the country choking beneath blankets of toxic air. However, a Government minister has informed lawmakers that there is a dearth of evidence to prove a link between pollution, disease, and deaths.  “There is no conclusive data available in the …

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Dry eye disease boon in Chennai

Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital in Chennai has become home to a facility for the diagnosis and treatment of dry eye disease, a condition on the rise in India. Thiru D. Jayakumar, Minister for Fisheries and Personnel and Administrative Reforms in the Tamil Nadu state government, inaugurated the facility.  By 2030, 275 million Indians could be …

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Road accident deaths: Who leads the nation?

Delhi is still leading Indian cities in the number of road accident deaths, recording 106 more such fatalities in 2018 compared to 2017. Uttar Pradesh, meanwhile, leads the states. Fortunately, the same was not true of some other populous cities. Chennai, Kolkata, and Maharashtra all witnessed declines in their road accident deaths in 2018 compared …

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Delhi a ‘gas chamber’ once more. Crop burning to blame?

Pollution has once again turned the national capital into a ‘gas chamber’ according to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal – and he says that crop burning in neighbouring states is to blame.  Every year, paddy field farmers burn between seven and eight million tonnes of crop waste, principally in Haryana and Punjab. Crop burning has been …

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Homelessness: An Indian crisis

Homelessness is a crisis in India where, despite decades of development positioning the country as one of the world’s largest economies, wealth inequality is present in staggering proportions. In fact, India is the second most unequal country in the world. Its high rate of homelessness stands as a testament to this grim reality.  Approximately four …

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World Environment Day highlights a health crisis

World Environment Day is observed annually on June 5th to commemorate the importance of conserving our environment from the many threats it faces. For India, World Environment Day offers a valuable opportunity to recognise one of the major issues confronting the nation: its poor environmental health, ranked as the worst in the world in the …

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World Bicycle Day: The health benefits of cycling

Dr Harsh Vardhan marked the beginning of his second stint as Union Health Minister by cycling to work on the occasion of World Bicycle Day, welcoming the benefits of cycling for health and the environment. In a tweet, the Minister cited cycling as his favourite sport and said the activity is a “simple, affordable, reliable, …

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When India had the hottest cities in the world

India is already baking under the weight of summer heat, which the country’s Meteorological Department expects only to get worse in the coming months. And, in extreme cases of extreme heat, recent days have seen India become home to the fifteen hottest cities in the world. On Friday, April 26th, the fifteen hottest cities in …

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