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Cash for query row: CBI initiates investigation against TMC MP Mahua Moitra

New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI): The CBI has initiated an investigation against TMC MP Mahua Moitra to look into ‘quid pro quo’ allegations of raising questions in Parliament, sources said on Saturday. In this regard, a senior CBI official said that no Preliminary Enquiry (PE) has been registered however an investigation has been initiated as the matter was referred by the anti-corruption body Lokpal. “We are enquiring into the matter that was sent to us by Lokpal. We have yet to gather more details into the matter,” the CBI official told ANI. Mahua Moitra is facing the heat of

Unique punishment for delay: Officers ordered to serve students with disabilities

New Delhi, Nov 25 (PTI) The Disability Affairs Department has meted out a unique punishment to the officers — serve students with disabilities for five days — found responsible for delaying by four years updating the category of an employee to PwD in the service book. Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities Rajesh Aggarwal expressed strong disapproval of state-owned MTNL’s failure to just change the category of the complainant employee from General to the PwD. Through an interim order on November 16 whose copy was shared with PTI, the Chief Commissioner has issued the unique recommendation aimed at fostering awareness

Reducing calorie intake could slow down aging

Nov 25, 2023 – A new study says we can slow down aging by 2% to 3% if we lower the number of calories we eat by 25%. That may seem like a little benefit for a large cut in calories. But experts say it’s actually a pretty big deal. “In other studies, that same difference in pace of aging had meaningful consequences for people’s risk of dying,” says senior study author Daniel W. Belsky, PhD, a researcher at the Butler Columbia Aging Center at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. Cutting calories by 25%

Public health groups, doctors urge for hike in tobacco tax

New Delhi, Nov 25 (PTI) Public health groups along with doctors and economists have urged the government to increase excise duty on all tobacco products in the Union Budget 2024-25 to generate additional revenue. In their appeals to the Finance Ministry, they asked for an increase in health taxes on cigarettes, bidis and smokeless tobacco. Health taxes are excise taxes imposed on products such as tobacco that have a clear negative public health impact. According to these experts, among the several public policy tools to regulate the consumption of tobacco, increasing the excise tax is considered to be one of

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