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8 Facts About Pollution In India That Will Leave You Gasping For Breath 1. Children Suffer The Most Almost 44% of schoolchildren in Delhi had reduced lung function compared to 25.7% in the other cities  studied . Delhi kids were also 1.8 times more likely to suffer from upper respiratory symptoms. 2. Pollution Is Responsible For Premature Deaths In India, 627,000 premature deaths are  attributable  to ambient, or outdoor PM 2.5 exposure. When a household or indoor pollution is added to this figure it rises to 1.6 million. 3. Air Quality Was Healthy Only 7/730 Days Between 2013-2015 One study  found  that over a 730 day period between 2013 and 2015 the Indian capital’s air met ‘healthy’ standards for the participate matter on only 7 days. Beijing’s air made the grade 58 times during the same period. 4. We Are Home To 22/50 Most Polluted Cities Globally. India has the dubious  distinction  of being home to 22 of the 50 mos...

68.4% Milk In India Is Adulterated, Finds Survey! 1. Are you getting your nutrition with a glass  full of milk ? Think again, you might be ruining you body with detergents! 2.Adulteration in milk has been a great cause of wrong for the everyday consumer and the daily industry. Spiked with ingredients like detergent, urea, starch, paint   and the most common one being water, adulterated milk has hazardous side effects. While the immediate effect of drinking milk adulterated with urea, caustic soda and formalin is gastroenteritis, the long-term effects are far more serious.  3 . According to a report by the Animal Welfare Board, about 68% of the milk production in the country, along with the milk byproduct were found to be laced with polluting ingredients.  4.Samples which failed the test, nearly 46 per cent, belonged to the category of low Solid Not Fat (SNF), and this was due to dilution of milk with water. Skimmed milk powder, generally used to in...

Lesser Known Facts About RAW, The Invisible Backbone Of India’s Defence Forces 1. RAW was established on the 21st of September, 1968, in response to the Sino-Indian war. Following the failures of intelligence services, which were the responsibility of the Investigation Bureau (IB) at the time, during the Sino-Indian conflict in 1962 and the India-Pakistan conflict of 1965, the Indira Gandhi government had to take extreme measures to increase foreign intelligence gathering. This is when the government called on the services of the first director of RAW, Rameshwar Nath Kao. 2. RAW once turned around a strategic move made by Pakistan, against them. The  Indian Airlines hijacking  of aircraft  Ganga  back 1971, was in fact, a strategic move by RAW that subsequently gave India a reason to retaliate by banning flights by Pakistani aircraft. This would later have a significant impact on troop movement by Pakistani forces into East Pakistan during the 1...