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HIV test compulsory before marriage? Goa is considering, says health min

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HIV test compulsory before marriage? Goa is considering, says health min Health Minister Vishwajit Rane added that the proposal to make HIV testing compulsory before marriage was being vetted by the Law Department Current Affairs :- Goa Health Minister Vishwajit Rane on Tuesday said that the beach front state’s legislature was thinking about making HIV tests obligatory before the enrollment of relational unions. “We are thinking about making a HIV test mandatory for the imminent couples before enlistment of marriage in Goa. It isn’t required at the present time,” Rane told IANS. Rane, who is likewise a Minister for Law, added that the proposition to make HIV testing necessary before marriage was being checked by the Law Department. “On the off chance that it is cleared by the Department soon, at that point we will table the law in the storm session of the state Legislative Assembly,” Rane said. The rainstorm session will start on July 15. In 2006, a comparative pro...

3 times higher poverty rates in Indian households with children: Survey

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3 times higher poverty rates in Indian households with children: Survey A household is 1.6 times more likely to be deprived in access to basic necessities such as shelter, sanitation, education and water if there is an illiterate woman in the family. Current Affairs :- Almost half (47.9 percent) the Indian family units that have in excess of five youngsters are seriously denied of safe house, water, sanitation, wellbeing and instruction when contrasted with 7.8 percent of poor families without kids, as indicated by the most recent Indian Human Development Survey discharged on May 11, 2019. Up to 24 percent of the world’s poor live in India, the fifth biggest nation by total national output in 2017, as indicated by the World Bank. India’s most extravagant 1per penny held 58 percent of the nation’s all out riches, which was higher than the worldwide figure of about half, demonstrating outrageous disparities. Destitution antagonistically influences the prosperity of a poor ...

Hockey World Cup lead to an estimated 60% higher tourist footfall in Odisha

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Hockey World Cup lead to an estimated 60% higher tourist footfall in Odisha By utilizing on Bhubaneshwar’s amplifying advance as a games goal, the state government plans to support visitor footfall and profit in the travel industry   Current Affairs   :By leOdisha has seen a record flood in visitor footfall amid November-December 2018, affability the Men’s Hockey World Cup corresponding with the state’s pinnacle the travel industry season. According to provisional figures ordered by Odisha’s travel industry office, the state got 1.61 million and 2.22 million household voyagers in November and December separately, upto 60 percent higher than ordinary. Remote travelers additionally touched base in higher numbers in the two months with a normal month to month entry of 15,000, higher by around 50 percent. “The all out sold out status of the inns in Bhubaneswar and Puri was extraordinary in Odisha. It was all because of Hockey World Cup. Indeed, even after the World...