Washington, March 31 (IANS) Senior US lawmakers have pressed the Commerce Department to release detailed data on exports of American-made semi-automatic weapons, citing concerns that such sales are fuelling criminal violence abroad.In a letter to Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Jeffrey Kessler, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Gregory Meeks said US firearm exports account for a significant share of crime guns traced globally.Data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobac…
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New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Nearly 360 companies have migrated from the SME platforms of the NSE and BSE to the mainboard exchanges, reflecting the growing maturity of India’s small and medium enterprises, a new report said on Saturday.The data compiled by B2K analytics said that 199 companies from the BSE SME platform and 158 companies from the NSE Emerge platform are now listed on the mainboards.Migration refers to the process through which a company shifts its securities from the SME exchange …
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Up to four in 10 or 7.1 million cancer cases worldwide could be prevented, according to a new global analysis from the World Health Organization (WHO) and its International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on Wednesday.The study, released on World Cancer Day on February 4, identified tobacco as the leading preventable cause of cancer globally, responsible for 15 per cent of all new cancer cases.It also found, for the first time, that nine cancer-causing infections are…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Increasing taxes on fruit juices, sugary drinks, and alcohol is essential to curb the rising non-communicable diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancers, and injuries, especially in children and young adults, said the World Health Organization (WHO).In two new global reports, the WHO flagged concerns that sugary drinks and alcoholic beverages are getting cheaper, due to consistently low tax rates in most countries.While more than 100 countries tax sugary …
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) More than six out of 10 people in India are suffering from mouth (buccal mucosa) cancer due to frequent consumption of alcohol, with locally brewed drinks associated with the greatest risk, along with chewing of smokeless tobacco products such as gutkha, khaini, paan, according to a large study published on Wednesday.The study, authored by a team of researchers from the Center for Cancer Epidemiology, and Homi Bhabha National Institute, in Maharashtra, showed that as lit…