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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...

10 PUBG Facts That you didn’t Know  1. PUBG is so popular that Gamers have bought  a virtual Bandana nearly worth 1000 $ that came with the original pre order version of the game . Earlier only few people pre ordered and now this Bandana has became a rare item which does not drop in any of the crates and is available only with the Original pre order PUBG bundle. 2. PUBG set the world record for most simultaneous players at  once . The number of players which played PUBG  simultaneously records for 1,342,857 beating record of Valve  Dota 2. 3. Brendon PlayerUnknown Greene creator of PUBG  , started in game design by modding ARMA series.Playing DAYZ a mod for ARMA , led to Brendon interest in modding . Basic concept of PUBG was originated from Battle Royal mod Greene created for PUBG.  4. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner’ came from alley craps back in the Depression. They used to play craps in alleys and didn’t always use [money], but if...

                              The War Inside CBI Why Alok Verma and Rakesh Asthana are at each other's throats. Special Director Rakesh Asthana and Director Alok Verma Who are the two officers at the centre of the ongoing battle within the CBI? CBI Director Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana. Until this unprecedented showdown, both had long and uncontroversial careers. Verma joined the IPS in 1979 at age 22 and was allotted to the AGMUT (Arunachal, Goa, Mizoram, UTs) cadre. He was the youngest officer in his batch. Prior to assuming the office of CBI Director, Verma had been Commissioner of Police, Delhi; Director General of Prisons, Delhi; Director General of Police, Mizoram; DGP, Puducherry and IGP, Andaman & Nicobar Islands. He is the only CBI Director to hold the top post without any prior experience in the agency. Asthana, a 1984 batch IPS officer of the Gujarat cadre, has inve...

Things You Didn't Know About ... Aliens 1  Astronomers Margaret Turnbull and Jill Tarter of the  Carnegie Institution in Washington , D.C., have compiled a list of 17,129 nearby stars most likely to have planets that could support complex life. 2  According to Turnbull, stars must be at least 3 billion years old (to allow life time to evolve), have low mass, and have high levels of iron; metals are needed to form rocky, Earth like planets. 3  Leading the list is Epsilon Indi A, a dim orange star just 11.8 light-years away, in our local corner of the Milky Way. 4  What's the frequency, Frank? Astronomer Frank Drake made the first scientific attempt to contact alien beings in 1960, when he used an 85-foot radio dish at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in West Virginia to listen for signals from two nearby sun like stars. 5  You haven't heard about it because his search turned up zilch. 6  The more sophistic...

Animals With Surprisingly Smart Lives 1. Cows in Cliques Are Smarter Than Lone Bovines 2. Female Mule Deer Have Each Other’s Backs 3. Coyotes and Badgers Team Up to Hunt 4. Orcas Teach Their Friends How To Fish 5. Elephants Talk To Each Other (Sometimes In Secret Tones) 6. Cuttlefish Show Their True Colors 7. Spiders Know That Millions of Legs Are Better Than Eight 8. Penguins Get in Sync