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WHO predicts up to four million Zika virus cases
World Health Organization (WHO) predicts, three to four million people could be infected with Zika virus in the Americas this year. Most will not develop symptoms, but the virus, spread by mosquitoes, has been linked to brain defects in babies.
WHO Director General Dr Margaret Chan said Zika had gone from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions. She has set up a Zika emergency team after the explosive spread of the virus. It will meet on Monday to decide whether Zika should be treated as a global emergency. The last time an international emergency was declared was for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has killed more than 11,000 people.
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Finland joins Sweden to deport failed asylum seekers
Jan 29
Finland joined Sweden in announcing plans to deport tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers in a bid to contain the migrant crisis. The Finnish government is likely to deport around two thirds of the 32,000 asylum seekers that arrived in 2015.
Earlier, Sweden government announced to deport up to 80,000 people whose asylum applications were set to be rejected. Many countries including Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and France have tightened asylum rules in a bid to discourage new arrivals.
Hydro-Power in Crisis :
Enertia : The Power Think Tank today talked on power sectors, Thermal, Hydro, Renewable. Norway survives on Hydro power’s. The essence of the speakers in growing demand of power, the present Governance community is unfair to Hydro projects. When BBD is golden examples of its utility.India produces 42k Mw whereas potential of one Lakh and pump storage of 90k. Thus power minister need to re look the structure how far balancing act can be restructured in variant power sector.further on irrigation aspect the hydro projects shall be an overall assets of the nation in long term which shall accrue and catchment of rain water. In thermal water need in enormous quantity . North east has potential of 58k MW on Brahamputra and china is making three dams on upstream of this mighty river. Thus economy on firm footing need Hydro projects must be viewed on merits. Power Sector in crisis, Hydro untouchable and fiscal constraints, Pro Iyer talks said huge funds available
The present NDA Government has added 30 thousand megawatt capacity of Thermal Power during last 20 months. Addressing an interactive session of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata yesterday, Minister of State with independent charge for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy, Piyush Goyal said this. He said, Power being the most important ingredient of infrastructure for nation’s development, the government is laying utmost emphasis on this sector.
Mr Goyal informed that his Ministry has achieved 60 per cent working capacity of power plants and aims to achieve 90 per cent working capacity in near future. Asserting that India’s coal production has increased substantially by 9.6 per cent resulting in remarkable reduction in coal imports.
The Power Minister said, more than 5 crore 36 lakh LED bulbs have been distributed at government subsidized rates due to which the rate per bulb has come down from 310 rupees to just 64 rupees. This has resulted in 1600 MW reduction in power consumption.
