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Deaths, diseases attributed to air pollution in India led to 1.4% GDP loss in 2019: Study
The findings in the paper highlight that while the disease burden due to household air pollution is reducing in India, the same has increased due to ambient outdoor air pollution. Updated: December 22, 2020 11:18:39 pm
The findings reported in the paper are part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.(Representational)
As many as 1.7 million deaths in India 18 per cent of the total deaths in the country were attributable to air pollution in 2019. The economic impact of this health loss due to lost productivity was huge, resulting in 1.4 per cent loss in the country’s GDP in 2019, which is equivalent to Rs 260,000 crore (US$ 36.8 billion), a new study has said.
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Roddam Narasimha
THE LAST major honour bestowed on Roddam Narasimha was a lifetime achievement award from Nature magazine in 2019 for ‘Mentoring in Science’. Some of his students, outstanding scientists themselves, say Narasimha, one of the doyens of Indian science who passed away in Bengaluru on Monday at the age of 87, was as great a teacher and mentor as an accomplished scientist.
“He was almost the perfect guru, deeply steeped in the Indian tradition. I could sense that in the very first lecture I attended from him at the Indian Institute of Science. He had already done some formidable scientific work during his stay at Caltech in the US by then. He had great insight into the subject, but the way he interacted with the students is something that left a lasting impression on us. We could immediately see that we were dealing with a very different kind of a person, very different teacher, and