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Climate change poses lifelong child health risk, says report

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Climate change will damage the health of an entire generation unless there are immediate cuts to fossil fuel emissions, from a rise in deadly infectious diseases to surging malnutrition, experts warned on Thursday.

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• Children across the world were already suffering the ill effects of air pollution and extreme weather events, said The Lancet Countdown in its annual report on the impact of climate change on human health.
• And far worse is to come for future generations, it warned: air-borne diseases, malnutrition due to mass crop failures, and even mental and physical trauma from increased flash flooding and wildfires.
• The Lancet Countdown is a coalition of 35 institutions including the World Health Organization and the World Bank.
• Their warning comes as some of Australia’s worst wildfires in living memory continue to burn across its eastern seaboard, and after a global youth strike inspired by Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg.

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Telangana gets its first ‘child-friendly’ police station

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Telangana’s first ‘child- friendly’ police station inaugurated at Medipally here, in association with Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), founded by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi.

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• As part of the joint initiative, BBA will also organise a training session in order to raise awareness, sensitise and inform police personnel on the guidelines laid down by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) for establishing child-friendly police stations, an official release said.
• With assistance from BBA, the child-friendly police station with “child-friendly corners” was decorated with wall paintings,furnished with beds, water coolers, in order to make children, visiting the police stations, comfortable and feel relaxed.
• Police said during the operation Smile and Operation Muskaan, a total of 1,884 children — 1,460 boys and 424 girls, were rescued in the limits of Rachakonda Commissionerate from 2017 till date.

Pakistan rules out any deal with India in Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case

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Pakistan ruled out any deal with India in death-row convict Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case and said any step taken to implement the ICJ’s decision will be according to its Constitution.

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• Mr. Jadhav, 49, a retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of “espionage and terrorism” after a closed trial in April 2017.
•  India has maintained that Mr. Jadhav was kidnapped from Iran where he had business interests after retiring from the Navy.
• In a major victory for India, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on July 17 ruled that Pakistan must review the death sentence given to Mr. Jadhav.
• After much dilly-dallying, Pakistan on September 2 granted India consular access to Mr. Jadhav under the direction of the ICJ.

Putin meets Modi at BRICS, invites him for Victory Day celebrations in May

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Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Victory Day celebrations in May next year as the two leaders met at Brasilia and discussed ways to further cement their special strategic partnership.

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• Mr. Modi, who is in Brazil for the 11th BRICS Summit which will focus on building mechanisms for counter-terrorism cooperation and strengthen India’s ties with the world’s five major economies, met Mr. Putin on the sidelines of the meeting.
• The annual May 9 Victory Day parade in Moscow, where Russia shows off its military might, commemorates the May 1945 allied victory over Nazi Germany.
• India had announced an “unprecedented” $1 billion line of credit for Russia’s resource-rich Far East with Prime Minister Modi vowing to support President Putin’s “stupendous efforts” to develop the extremely harsh region.
• India and Russia signed 15 agreements/MoUs in areas such as defence, air, and maritime connectivity, energy, natural gas, petroleum and trade in September.

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• At 4.62%, retail inflation in October hits a 16-month high

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Retail inflation climbed to a 16-month high of 4.62% in October, driven by food inflation, which hit its highest level since August 2016.

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• The Consumer Price Index (CPI) grew sharply in October from 3.99% in September, which itself was the highest reading in 14 months. The inflation level in October breached the 4% benchmark, set by the RBI and the Finance Ministry till 2021.
•  It, however, still remains within the upper limit of 6%. Within the CPI, inflation in the food and beverages category continued its sharp acceleration, at 6.93%. This figure is the highest since August 2016. Food inflation was at 4.7% in September, the highest in nearly two years.
• Inflation in the paan, tobacco and other intoxicants category eased to 3.92% in October from 4.59% in the previous month. The housing sector also saw inflation easing in October, to 4.58% from 4.75%.
• The fuel and light category saw a continued contraction in prices by 2.02% in October, compared with a contraction of 2.18% in the previous month. October marks the fourth consecutive month of contracting fuel prices.
• Inflation in the clothing and footwear category quickened to 1.65% in October from 0.96% in September.

WPI inflation eases to 0.16 pc in Oct

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Wholesale prices based inflation eased further to 0.16% in October, as against 0.33% in September due to subdued prices of non-food articles and fall in prices of manufactured items.

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• The annual inflation, based on monthly wholesale price index (WPI), was at 5.54% in October 2018.
• The rate of price rise for food articles was at 9.80 per cent during the month, while for non-food articles it stood at 2.35%, showed the data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
• For manufactured products, the wholesale inflation was at (-)0.84 per cent in October 2019.
• However, the retail inflation for the month hit a 16-month high of 4.62% due to soaring prices of food articles, including fruits and vegetables.

Indo-Tibetan Border Police to get special cold climate clothing

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More than 15,000 personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force deployed along the China border are set to benefit from a policy decision on altitude specifications that makes them eligible to get special cold climate clothing.

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• Earlier only those ITBP men deployed at an altitude of up to 12,000 feet from the sea level were entitled for a special protective clothing. However, last year, the guidelines were revised and personnel deployed at 9,000 feet also became eligible for the uniforms to get the special clothing.
• ITBP has procured around 600 ‘Made in India’ Ghatak 7.62 assault rifles, 55 high powered vehicles and 126 SUVs for smooth travel in the rugged terrain in the Ladakh sector.

U.S. initiates new anti-dumping duty, countervailing investigations

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The United States has announced the initiation of new anti-dumping duty and countervailing duty investigations to determine whether forged steel fittings from India and South Korea are being dumped in the country and to find if producers in India are receiving unfair subsidies.

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• These investigations were initiated based on petitions filed by Bonney Forge Corporation (Mount Union, PA) and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union.
• The department said dumping margins range from 45.31 to 198.38% for Korea and 52.48 to 293.40 for India.
• According to the Department of Commerce, there are 45 subsidy programs alleged for India, including allegations that the Government of India provides export subsidies, as well as subsidised financing, land, steel, and other raw materials.
• In 2018, imports of forged steel fittings from India and South Korea were valued at an estimated $92.6 million and $67.6 million, respectively.

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