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Two North East districts record highest cancer incidence rate in India A new report published by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), under its National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP), recorded Aizawl in Mizoram and Papumpare in Arunachal Pradesh as districts with the highest age adjusted cancer incidence rate in the country. A Nandakumar, principal coordinator of NCRP, on Saturday said unhealthy lifestyle choices and increased consumption of smoked meat and tobacco are to be blamed. Age adjusted cancer incidence rate is a scientific method to compare aged patients and the young adults attacked by the disease. It also takes into consideration the number of old and young people affected comprising a particular local population. While Aizawl was found to have the highest cancer incidence rate in men with 271 affected in a population of 1,00,000, Papaumpare was found to have the highest cancer incidence rate in women with 249 affected in a population of 1,00,000. Thi...

USD 100 billion is the Economic Cost of 2016 Drought in India Yet no Implementation Plans to prevent the same in future is visible, just plans and promises on paper Author has made some assessment, placing before you for your comments and feedback. Share with others if you like it. Government and planners are stuck in the game of averages and ignoring the ground reality. It is of new use of average if one area is flooded and other is suffering from drought. Average may seem comfortable on paper, but fact is on both ends people are suffering.  Panic is setting in: The ground situation is so frightening that Ministry of Agriculture has stopped reporting area under crop from the weekly weather reports in recent weeks. Why they stopped sharing information with people? What is the motive? Let us analyse the situation with facts: Current water shortage both in reservoirs as well as lowering of ground water table has created a serious challenge fo...