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Kanpur में इंसानियत हुई शर्मसार, कोरोना होने पर मां को निकाला घर से बाहर | Khabrein Tabadtod

Kanpur में इंसानियत हुई शर्मसार, कोरोना होने पर मां को निकाला घर से बाहर | Khabrein Tabadtod

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Thursday, April 22, 2021

Arizona third-grader holds food drives to help in pandemic (AP) Neighbors walked by during their morning stroll, passing families waved from their bikes and drivers slowed down long enough to read the hand-drawn sign—“Dylan’s Food Drive.” The poster was taped to two PVC pipes that were stuck inside construction cones for support. It was a typical scene for 8-year-old Dylan Pfeifer, who has been staging food drives from his home in metro Phoenix in response to the pandemic. Each drive is the culmination of hours of work that involves drawing posters, going door-to-door to hand out flyers and working with his mother to post information on Facebook. Dylan has hosted three drives from his home in Chandler, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southeast of Phoenix. He said he is planning his next one in June, when summer vacation begins. Dylan says he has collected more than 1,000 cans and boxes of nonperishable food and more than $900 in donations. On its website, St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix says it can convert $1 into seven meals, meaning Dylan has been able to provide more than 6,500 meals on just monetary donations. “It’s rare that you see kids at Dylan’s age who have a handle on what the problem is in their community, the people around them who are affected by it, and have the courage to do something about it,” said Jerry Brown, director of media relations at St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance. Erin Pfeifer said the best part for her, as his mother, has been watching Dylan grow.

Verdict heard around the world: Global reactions to the George Floyd case (Washington Post) The conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd resonated globally, with foreign dignitaries and community leaders reacting to a verdict that revived calls for an international reckoning on racial inequality in justice systems around the world. Chauvin, who is White, was found guilty Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Floyd, a Black man he pinned down outside a Minneapolis grocery store last year. Foreign media outlets ran live coverage, showing how the trial resonated far beyond its national context, and highlighting the outsized role the U.S. racial justice conversation plays internationally, as the rest of the world is forced to grapple with its own race relations. Floyd’s killing in May proved to be a moment of reckoning not only in the United States but also across the world, as protesters took to the streets calling for justice in his case and pointing to what they saw as parallels in their communities. In Japan, crowds last year gathered in Osaka holding signs that read “Black lives matter,” while in Germany, protesters took to the streets of Berlin holding placards that said “White silence is violence” and “I can’t breathe.” In Britain last year, they chanted for Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old who was shot by police during his attempted arrest in 2011. In France, they said the name Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old who died in police custody in 2016. In Australia, where Floyd’s death last year spurred a resurgence in activism over Indigenous people’s deaths in police custody, the guilty verdict led to fresh calls for authorities to scrutinize more than 400 Aboriginal deaths in custody.

Surveillance Nation (BuzzFeed News) A controversial facial recognition tool designed for policing has been quietly deployed across the country with little to no public oversight. According to reporting and data reviewed by BuzzFeed News, more than 7,000 individuals from nearly 2,000 public agencies nationwide have used Clearview AI to search through millions of Americans’ faces, looking for people, including Black Lives Matter protesters, Capitol insurrectionists, petty criminals, and their own friends and family members. BuzzFeed News has developed a searchable table of 1,803 publicly funded agencies whose employees are listed in the data as having used or tested the controversial policing tool before February 2020. These include local and state police, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Air Force, state healthcare organizations, offices of state attorneys general, and even public schools. In many cases, leaders at these agencies were unaware that employees were using the tool. Such widespread use of Clearview means that facial recognition may have been used in your hometown with very few people knowing about it. The New York City–based startup claims to have amassed one of the largest-known repositories of pictures of people’s faces—a database of more than 3 billion images scraped without permission from places such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. If you’ve posted images online, your social media profile picture, vacation snapshots, or family photos may well be part of a facial recognition dragnet that’s been tested or used by law enforcement agencies across the country.

Violence erupts as Mexico’s deadly gangs aim to cement power in largest ever elections (The Guardian) Violent clashes between rival Mexican criminal groups—and their alleged allies in the security forces—are escalating ahead of mid-term elections in June, triggering a string of political assassinations and the forced displacement of thousands. With more than 21,000 posts in local, state and national government up for election—including 15 state governorships—the 6 June polls are the largest in Mexico’s history, and criminal groups see the elections as an opportunity to further their interests. Much of the recent fighting has focused on the western state of Michoacán, where the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (Jalisco New Generation cartel) has stepped up its conflict with an alliance of local groups calling themselves the United Cartels. The violence has forced more than a thousand people to flee the area, feeding the flow of migrants heading to the US to seek asylum. “They are leaving because they get caught in the crossfire, because their homes have been destroyed, [and] because the main roads into [the area] have been carved up to stop the advance of the Jaliscos,” said Gregorio López, a Catholic priest who has sheltered refuges in the nearby city of Apatzingán. The Jalisco cartel, Mexico’s fastest-expanding criminal network, considers Michoacán, rich in international trafficking routes and extortion markets, a key building block in its bid for national criminal hegemony. But its decade-long attempt to take over the region has so far been frustrated by the local opponents’ deep political and social roots. With neither side able to impose its designs on the other or willing to back down, more than 15,500 homicides have been recorded here from January 2011 to February this year.

In Putin’s Standoff With Navalny, Many Russians Put Faith in President (WSJ) Thousands of demonstrators are expected to take to the streets in many Russian cities Wednesday in support of Alexei Navalny, the jailed opposition leader who has galvanized popular discontent with the long rule of President Vladimir Putin. But even as the opposition leader stirs dissent, Mr. Putin can count on the support of many Russians who either trust in his leadership, fear the uncertainties of political change or disapprove of Mr. Navalny and his protest movement. “If it were up to me, Putin would stay another 20 years in power,” said fashion designer Irina Larkina from her home in a drab apartment block in this Russian city on the Baltic sea. “He’s the one who has boosted our living standards and given us respect for ourselves again.” Even amid falling living standards and Western sanctions, Mr. Putin continues to enjoy enviable approval ratings. Sociologists say while few may feel deep support for Mr. Putin, the Kremlin can continue to count on approval ratings of around 60%. “There’s a point at which popularity won’t fall any further,” said Lev Gudkov, head of independent polling organization Levada Center. “The country has fallen into two camps, but the Kremlin knows there is a wealth of support it can still draw from within the population, even though it’s fallen in recent years,” he added.

Indian hospitals buckle amid virus surge (AP) Seema Gandotra, sick with the coronavirus, gasped for breath in an ambulance for 10 hours as it tried unsuccessfully to find an open bed at six hospitals in India’s sprawling capital. By the time she was admitted, it was too late, and the 51-year-old died hours later. Rajiv Tiwari, whose oxygen levels began falling after he tested positive for the virus, has the opposite problem: He identified an open bed, but the resident of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh can’t get to it. “There is no ambulance to take me to the hospital,” he said. These tragedies are now everyday occurrences in the vast country, which is seeing its largest surge of the pandemic so far and watching its chronically underfunded health system crumble. Tests are delayed. Medical oxygen is scarce. Hospitals are understaffed and overflowing. Intensive care units are full. Nearly all ventilators are in use, and the dead are piling up at crematoriums and graveyards. India recorded over 250,000 new infections and over 1,700 deaths in the past 24 hours alone, and the U.K. announced a travel ban on most visitors from the country this week. Overall, India has reported more than 15 million cases and some 180,000 deaths—and experts say these numbers are likely undercounted. “The surge in infections has come like a storm and a big battle lies ahead,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an address to the nation Tuesday night.

Further evidence in case against Indian activists accused of terrorism was planted, new report says (Washington Post) An unknown hacker planted more than 30 documents that investigators deemed incriminating on a laptop belonging to an Indian activist accused of terrorism, a new forensic analysis finds, indicating a more extensive use of malicious software than previously revealed. The report will heighten concerns about the controversial prosecution of a group of government critics under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Known as the Bhima Koregaon case, the prosecution is considered a bellwether for the rule of law in India. Human rights groups and legal experts view the case as an effort by the government to clamp down on critics. The space for dissent has diminished in Modi’s India, where journalists, activists and members of nongovernmental organizations have faced arrest and harassment. The activists accused in the case deny the charges against them. They include a prominent academic, a labor lawyer, a leftist poet, a Jesuit priest and two singers. All are advocates for the rights of the country’s most disadvantaged communities and vocal opponents of the ruling party. Many of them have been jailed for nearly three years as they await trial.

Community pantries offer reprieve from covid-19 hardships in the Philippines (Washington Post) They were of different ages, genders, and walks of life. Some had been there since sunrise. A number carried umbrellas and canvas bags. Hundreds stood in a line that stretched three blocks on Wednesday, all waiting for their turn to stock up on donated food. The community pantry, as it is known, bore a sign: Give what you can, take what you need. A week after the initiative began as a humble cart with free vegetables and canned goods, over 300 similar donation-driven efforts have popped up across the Philippines. The grass-roots action underlines the economic pain Filipinos are experiencing as they battle one of Southeast Asia’s worst coronavirus outbreaks and a harsh lockdown. The idea began when a small-business owner teamed up with local vegetable vendors and farmers who offered their produce to those in need. Within days, it grew into a multi-sector effort encompassing a variety of food and essential items—bread, eggs, fruit, rice, water, noodles—donated by rich and poor alike.

Iran Rattled as Israel Repeatedly Strikes Key Targets (NYT) In less than nine months, an assassin on a motorbike fatally shot an Al Qaeda commander given refuge in Tehran, Iran’s chief nuclear scientist was machine-gunned on a country road, and two separate, mysterious explosions rocked a key Iranian nuclear facility in the desert, striking the heart of the country’s efforts to enrich uranium. The steady drumbeat of attacks, which intelligence officials said were carried out by Israel, highlighted the seeming ease with which Israeli intelligence was able to reach deep inside Iran’s borders and repeatedly strike its most heavily guarded targets, often with the help of turncoat Iranians. The attacks, the latest wave in more than two decades of sabotage and assassinations, have exposed embarrassing security lapses. Most alarming for Iran, Iranian officials and analysts said, was that the attacks revealed that Israel had an effective network of collaborators inside Iran and that Iran’s intelligence services had failed to find them. “That the Israelis are effectively able to hit Iran inside in such a brazen way is hugely embarrassing and demonstrates a weakness that I think plays poorly inside Iran,” said Sanam Vakil, deputy director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House.

With most adults now vaccinated, Israelis are busting loose (Washington Post) Israel is partying like it’s 2019. With most adults now vaccinated against the coronavirus and restrictions falling away—including the lifting this week of outdoor mask requirements—Israelis are joyously resuming routines that were disrupted more than a year ago and providing a glimpse of what the future could hold for other countries. Restaurants are booming outside and in. Concerts, bars and hotels are open to those who can flash their vaccine certificates. Classrooms are back to pre-covid capacity. The rate of new infections has plummeted—from a peak of almost 10,000 a day to about 140—and the number of serious coronavirus cases in many hospitals is down to single digits. The emergency covid-19 ward at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv resumed duty as a parking garage, and waiting rooms are suddenly flooded with non-covid patients coming for long-deferred treatments.

Rebels threaten to march on capital as Chad reels from president’s battlefield death (Reuters) Rebel forces set their sights on Chad’s capital N’Djamena on Wednesday following the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby, threatening to bring more disruption to a country vital to international efforts to combat Islamist militants in Africa. Schools and some businesses were open in N’Djamena on Wednesday but many people had opted to stay home and the streets were quiet, a Reuters witness said.

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Why is Sustainable Real Estate Considered to be the Future of India?

In the context of a sustainable lifestyle, the demand is pretty high. After the coronavirus pandemic caused a severe threat to human existence, the world is moving towards sustainable growth in all industries. Real estate is not lagging, and a few brands have already taken the vibrant initiative of building sustainable houses like 1-OAK.

There are some significant 4BHK apartments in Lucknow built by these builders where strategic location, amenities, and a better lifestyle are the new features to attract the crowd. 

To cope with the everlasting demand for housing and balance it with nature, 1-OAK didn't stop in the process of focusing on sustainable living. The houses/apartments act as a habitable space where the occupants can reside long-term with conducive socio-economic development, respecting nature. The underlying motive is to maintain a comfortable lifestyle that will enhance living standards and create a positive impact on the environment.

The positive change in the consumer's demand will probably shift towards the most efficient properties. The energy-intensive buildings with green living by 1-OAK are well-designed with a gorgeous exterior architect. The houses mostly have enough sunlight entering the rooms, spacious balconies, organic gardening areas, and organic kitchens. It is a great way to stay connected to the greens that lit up the occupants' lives in a positive way.

In the long run, premium living in Lucknow will remain an attractive asset compared to other investments owing to the lower risk factors and rewards of a sustainable lifestyle. The design of sustainable houses is constructive, functional, and reduces carbon emissions, energy waste, and water waste while prioritising safe amenities and lowering toxicity release.Green housing addresses the worldwide issues of climate change, global warming, and a lack of green spaces in cities while also improving the health and well-being of its residents.

Frankly, real estate has created a more substantial impact when it comes to climate change. With the sustainable lifestyle and green living concept, the environment is less polluted. Suppose the real estate industry has the motive of embracing and investing in sustainable building. In that case, the transformation will significantly impact both humans and the environment. 1-OAK by the Singapore-based company Greenfield Advisory Pte. Ltd. has developed a much-needed move with sustainable house buildings. By adopting this lifestyle, you'll have a positive life and contribute to the progressive eco-friendly world.

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IT raids on Sonu Sood

IT raids on Sonu Sood

Income Tax- IT officials visited around six locations in Mumbai and Lucknow, and  they also visited Sonu Sood’ residence. The sources say the IT department is looking into a land deal between Sonu Sood firm and a real estate company in Lucknow following complaints of alleged tax evasion. A real estate deal is under the scanner of the department.

Sonu Sood grabbed the national spotlight for helping migrants reach their home states during the nationwide lockdown clamped last year in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic.

The sources close to Income Tax Officials revealed that  a recent deal between Sonu Sood’s company and a Lucknow based real estate firm is under the scanner. The survey operation has been initiated on allegations of tax evasion on this deal. This is not the first time Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has been raided. He was among Bollywood personalities raided in  the year 2012 over alleged tax evasion.

IT raids came days after  Sonu Sood met Aam Aadmi Party National Convener Arvind Kejriwal.  The actor had later dismissed speculations that he was joining the  AAP- Aam Aadmi Party.

During an event in the month of  August,  Arvind Kejriwal had named Sonu  Sood as a brand ambassador of his government’s mentorship programme for school students.

On the work front, Sonu Sood will be seen playing a crucial role in upcoming Telugu film Acharya starring Megastar Chiranjeevi, Kajal Aggarwal, Pooja Hegde and  Ram Charan.

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20 Uttar Pradesh villagers get vaccine cocktail shots

20 Uttar Pradesh villagers get vaccine cocktail shots

LUCKNOW: At least 20 residents of a hamlet bordering Nepal in UP’s Siddharthnagar district were administered a cocktail of two Covid-19 vaccines in a shocking violation of norms laid down under the coronavirus prevention programme. The vaccine mix-up for the first and second dose took place at Badhni primary health centre in Audhai Kalan village of the district, where a group of villagers were…

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India hospitals running out of oxygen and beds

 An alarming spike in COVID-19 cases has created a crisis across India, particularly in the capital, New Delhi, recording more than 25,000 cases — about one in three of those tested — in the past 24 hours, according to official data. The situation in New Delhi, which has a population of more than 20 million people, forced Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to write to the federal government seeking more hospital beds. Several health care facilities have said they can no longer accommodate patients, leading to a rise in fatalities due to lack of space, oxygen cylinders and drugs. “The situation in Delhi is very grim,” Kejriwal wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He asked the PM to “earmark 7,000 beds out of 10,000 in the federal government-run hospitals in Delhi” for COVID-19 patients to “tide over the crisis.” “There is an acute dearth of oxygen in Delhi, and it should be supplied immediately,” Kejriwal added. On Sunday, India registered a record single-day rise of 261,500 coronavirus infections taking the nationwide case total to almost 1.48 million.

More than 1,500 people died from the coronavirus disease on Sunday alone, another record for the nation of 1.39 billion, bringing the national toll to 177,168 deaths. Several residents in New Delhi said that most private and government hospitals had run out of beds with many patients desperate to get admitted to hospital. “Since yesterday evening I have been trying to admit my sister in a hospital but seven or eight hospitals I reached refused admission,” Tabish Jamal, a Delhi resident, told Arab News on Sunday. “My sister’s oxygen level is dipping, and she needs immediate medical intervention, but it’s a grim scenario. We are so helpless,” she said, adding that “a small nursing home with basic facilities” had admitted her sister, but “we are getting desperate.”

Lucknow, the capital of the eastern state of Uttar Pradesh, is also facing a bleak scenario with media reports saying that people were “waiting in hordes to be admitted to hospitals,” with at least 50 seen queueing outside the King George’s Medical University, the city’s main facility. “It’s a grim scenario in the city and around Lucknow,” Kulsum Mustafa, a senior journalist in Lucknow, said on Sunday. She accused the government of “hiding the exact figures and not showing the true picture.” “The fact is that there is not only an acute shortage of beds and oxygen, but the testing facilities are minimal too,” Mustafa said. India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh reported close to 27,550 cases on Sunday making it the second-worst affected area, after the western state of Maharashtra, which had registered more than 67,000 patients in the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, in the western state of Gujarat, which is PM Modi’s home state, officials reported scenes of “chaos at most hospitals” in the capital city of Ahmedabad. “Ahmedabad city, like other places in India, is facing a shortage of oxygen, hospital beds and important medicines such as Remdesivir,” Dr. Mona Desai, chief of Ahmedabad Medical Association, said on Sunday. “With the new variant of coronavirus, the oxygen level starts to dip very soon, and the state is not prepared to supply oxygen to all. The timely intervention of oxygen is important; otherwise, vital organs fail,” she added. On Sunday, Gujarat registered nearly 10,000 cases, which Desai said is “not the real figure.” “The death toll is high this time, but the government data is not showing that. I don’t know why they hide the data.” Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said that the “oxygen production is being doubled.”

Courtesy : Arab News

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Lucknow University tightens COVID-19 restrictions, asks students to stay back at homes- The New Indian Express

Lucknow University tightens COVID-19 restrictions, asks students to stay back at homes- The New Indian Express

By ANI LUCKNOW: The University of Lucknow has issued directives to tighten the COVID-19 restrictions. Nalini Pandey, Chief Provost of the University said in a letter on Tuesday, “Due to a sharp surge in Coronavirus cases in the city, as a precautionary measure the hostel students are requested to stay back at home and not return to the hostel till offline classes resume.” “The students residing…

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Covid-19 surge: Uttar Pradesh govt shuts schools for students up to Class 8 till April 4

Covid-19 surge: Uttar Pradesh govt shuts schools for students up to Class 8 till April 4

Amid a spike in coronavirus cases, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday extended to April 4 the closure of all schools for students up to Class 8, according to an official. Earlier, the state government had shut schools for students up to Class 8 till March 31. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued the fresh directions during a review meeting at his 5-Kalidas Marg residence in Lucknow. The CM…

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Ensure safety of vaccine storage spots as that of EVMs: UP CM to officials

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday directed officials to increase storage capacity for anti-coronavirus vaccines, when they become available, as he virtually equated the security for the vaccines with that of electronic voting machines. At a meeting at his official residence, he directed officials to increase the cold storage capacity to 2.30 lakh litres by December 15, according to an official statement. Adityanath also said that cold chain facilities would be arranged at each districts and divisions. “All security arrangements should be made to ensure its availability. The safety of the vaccine storage spots should be ensured in the same manner as that of the electronic voting machines,” the chief minister said. He also directed officials to ensure that healthcare workers are trained in large number to administer vaccines. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said a Covid-19 vaccine may be ready in a few weeks as he noted that experts believe the wait for it will not be long, and asserted that the vaccination drive in India will begin as soon as scientists give the nod. Five vaccine candidates are in different phases of clinical trails in India with the Serum Institute of India conducting phase-three trial of the Oxford-Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Covaxin, a vaccine indigenously developed by Bharat Biotech in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has also started its phase-three clinical trial. Another vaccine, developed in the country by Zydus Cadila, has completed phase-two clinical trail.

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UP govt to install TrueNAT machines in every district for rapid coronavirus testing

UP govt to install TrueNAT machines in every district for rapid coronavirus testing

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the TrueNAT testing machine through a virtual event at his residence in Lucknow. He had sent a state plane to bring these machines from Goa.

A TruNAT machine has been installed at the Balrampur hospital in Lucknow for testing.(Photo: Nelanshu/India Today)

To ramp up testing for the novel coronavirus, the Uttar Pradesh government…

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Covid-19 surge: Uttar Pradesh govt shuts schools for students up to Class 8 till April 4

Covid-19 surge: Uttar Pradesh govt shuts schools for students up to Class 8 till April 4

Amid a spike in coronavirus cases, the Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday extended to April 4 the closure of all schools for students up to Class 8, according to an official. Earlier, the state government had shut schools for students up to Class 8 till March 31. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath issued the fresh directions during a review meeting at his 5-Kalidas Marg residence in Lucknow. The CM…

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”Unfortunate”: Mayawati On Delhi Reserving Hospitals For Its Residents The BSP leader also demanded that the Centre intervene in the matter. Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Monday termed as "unfortunate" Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's announcement that hospitals run by the Delhi government and private entities will only treat Delhiites during the novel coronavirus crisis.

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”Unfortunate”: Mayawati On Delhi Reserving Hospitals For Its Residents The BSP leader also demanded that the Centre intervene in the matter. Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Monday termed as "unfortunate" Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's announcement that hospitals run by the Delhi government and private entities will only treat Delhiites during the novel coronavirus crisis.

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Indians losing 5.2 years of their lives due to air pollution: Study

NEW DELHI: Indians’average life expectancy is reducing by 5.2 years due to air pollution, behind only Bangladesh (6.2 years), with particulate pollution levels rising by 42 percent in India since 1998, a new analysis has revealed. The study, carried out by the University of Chicago through its Air Quality Life Index (AQLI), puts into account pollution levels till 2018, stating 84 percent of people in India live in areas that exceed the country’s own air quality standards and the entire population is exposed to levels that exceed the WHO guideline. As a result, the average resident sees their life cut short by more than 5 years relative to what it would be if the WHO guideline was met, while it is cut shot by 2.3 years if the national standards were met. Delhiites meanwhile are losing 9.4 years of their lives in relation to what they would have lived, if the air quality was meeting the WHO standards, while it is 6.5 years, if the national standards are met. Lucknow, in Uttar Pradesh, has the highest level of pollution in the country, with pollution levels 11 times greater than the WHO guideline. Residents of Lucknow at present stand to lose 10.3 years in terms of life expectancy, if the current pollution levels persist. The study states overall, a quarter of India’s population is exposed to pollution levels not seen in any other country, with 248 million residents of northern India on track to lose more than 8 years of life under the current scenario. “Though the threat of coronavirus is grave and deserves every bit of the attention it is receiving—perhaps more in some places—embracing the seriousness of air pollution with a similar vigor would allow billions of people around the world to lead longer and healthier lives,” says Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and creator of the AQLI along with colleagues at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). “The reality is, no shot in the arm will alleviate air pollution. For a country like India, the solution lies in robust public policy. The AQLI tells citizens and policymakers how particulate pollution is affecting them and their communities and can be used to measure the benefits of policies to reduce pollution,” he added. The study also states Particulate pollution has been sharply increasing over time. Since 1998, the average annual particulate pollution has increased 42 percent, already cutting 1.8 years off the life of the average resident over those years. The AQLI findings also indicate that citizens in states like Bihar and West Bengal can add more than 7 years to their life if air quality met the WHO guideline, while residents in Haryana can expect to live 8 years longer if the WHO guideline was achieved. In 2019, the central government announced the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to reduce particulate pollution by 20-30 percent relative to 2017 levels by 2024. Though the NCAP’s goals are non-binding, if India does achieve and sustain this reduction, it would lead to remarkable health improvements, according to the AQLI. A nationwide reduction of 25 percent—the midpoint of the NCAP’s target—would increase India’s national life expectancy by 1.6 years, and by 3.1 years for residents of Delhi, the study adds.

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Lucknow: 4 nurses among 15 test Covid-19 positive, 5 hospitals partially shut for sanitization | Lucknow News

Lucknow: 4 nurses among 15 test Covid-19 positive, 5 hospitals partially shut for sanitization | Lucknow News

LUCKNOW: Four nurses and two employees engaged in non-medical work at two superspecialty Covid-19 hospitals were among 15 new cases of novel coronavirus infection reported in the city on Wednesday, taking the tally to 417 so far. Fresh patients also included five migrants, a resident of New Hyderabad and a sanitary worker from PGI area. Five hospitals – three private and two missionary – were…

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Coronavirus: UAE residents revisit lost hobbies, pick new ones

Banker Saud Rivzi has launched his personal cooking present on YouTube Picture Credit score: Equipped

Dubai: Saud Rizvi smiled appreciatively because the gravy turned a wealthy golden brown. He let it simmer, whisking often earlier than reaching for the digital camera to shoot yet one more episode for his newly-launched YouTube Channel referred to as Saud’s Kitchen.

The Dubai-based banker is amongst many UAE residents who’ve picked up new hobbies or rekindled previous ones to maintain themselves gainfully preoccupied whereas being sequestered at house due to COVID-19 restrictions.

British life coach Melanie Blackwell, as an illustration, has taken to portray. Disaster communication specialist Eve Hester-Wyne from Eire has began meditation. Indian advertising and marketing supervisor Evarist Rego is studying easy methods to play the guitar, whereas enterprise proprietor Zaid Shakman from Jordan is discovering the well being advantages of yoga.

The hobbyists mentioned their newfound passions haven’t solely given them a respite from the grim actuality of the coronavirus but additionally bolstered shallowness.

Saud Rivzi

“I always wanted to spread the word about the gastronomical delights of my hometown Lucknow,” mentioned Rizvi. “The overabundance of time has allowed me do that by sharing their secret family recipes passed down through generations through my own YouTube channel. I am loving every bit of it and gaining more confidence with each show,” he mentioned.

Blackwell, whose work have gained her rave critiques from buddies and family, mentioned she picked up a paint brush after a number of a long time. “The last time I painted anything before this was when I was the age of my nine-year-old son Jack,” mentioned Melanie who lives in Dubai together with her Aussie husband David.

Melanie Blackwell with husband David and son Jack Picture Credit score: Equipped

“We started with hard-boiled Easter eggs as a family friendly activity but kept going. I have painted quite a few pieces over the past few weeks and found the experience very therapeutic. Most of my works are about nature – something we are all appreciating during the restrictions,” she mentioned.

Blackwell’s creations have gained rave critiques from buddies and family Picture Credit score: Equipped

Evarist Rego, head of selling at Ajmal Perfumes mentioned he’s utilizing the spare time discover ways to play the guitar from YouTube.

Evarist Rego is studying to play the guitar Picture Credit score: Equipped

“Being an avid music buff, I always cherished a dream to learn playing the guitar but as the harsh realities of life took over, this dream faded into oblivion. But life has its own ways. Who would have thought that a pandemic would result in something positive,” mentioned the 48-year-old, who’s presently taking on-line tutorials to play The Scientist, a well-liked tune by British rock band Coldplay.

Eve Hester-Wyne

One other Dubai resident, Eve Hester-Wyne mentioned she is utilizing the overabundance of time to take pleasure in her latest pastime – meditation. “I never thought I was the meditation type. I am more Zumba than yoga! But the lockdown left me looking for a calming hobby,” mentioned Wyne. “I have started to see a difference already – after just 10 days. Meditation has helped me feel more calm and centered in these tricky times,” she mentioned.

Zaid Shakman, founding father of Aretha Pure Magnificence, mentioned he had been doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for the previous 13 years however has now switched to yoga and physique motion exercises. “It’s fascinating and I find myself hooked,” he mentioned.

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