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'Turning point': Number of male smokers falling for first time, says WHO

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'Turning point': Number of male smokers falling for first time, says WHO Declines in tobacco use amongst males mark a turning point in the fight against tobacco, says WTO Current Affairs :The administration is wanting to set up more than 100 biogas plants and furnish a large number of composers with machines to discard crop stubble in an offer to stop the stifling harvest copying contamination that scourges the nation each winter. A significant wellspring of the exhaust cloud that overwhelms huge swathes of northern India is the consuming the straw and stubble of the past rice harvest to get ready for new planting in October and November. Government-upheld Indian Oil Corp will welcome privately owned businesses to apply to set up 140 biogas plants that will utilize rice stubble as feed stock, two government authorities, who didn’t wish to be distinguished in accordance with legitimate approach, said. The plants would cost Rs 3,500 crore and each would require two ton...

China accounted for around 67% of India’s bulk drug imports in FY19

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China accounted for around 67% of India’s bulk drug imports in FY19 The import of bulk drugs and drug intermediates from China stood at $2,055.94 million in 2017-18, accounting for 68.68 per cent of their total import International :- China represented 67.56 percent of all out imports of mass medications and medication intermediates in 2018-19 at $2,405.42 million, Parliament was educated on Tuesday. The import of mass medications and medication intermediates from China remained at $2,055.94 million of every 2017-18, representing 68.68 percent of their complete import, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers D V Sadananda Gowda said in an answer to the Lok Sabha. Refering to information from DGCIS Kolkata, he said portion of China in the absolute mass medication imported to the nation during 2018-19 was around 67 percent. “The nation imports mass medications/dynamic pharmaceutical fixings (APIs) for delivering prescriptions including certain fundamental drugs. As India i...