Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Phase IV of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to connect 25,000 villages with all-weather roads, and allocated an outlay of Rs 19,000 crore for the financial year 2024-25. She also announced three crore additional houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in rural and urban areas. Of these, 2 crore homes will be constructed in villages under PMAY-Gramin (PMAY-G) with an allocation of Rs 54,500 crore. The Jal Jeevan Mission has been allocated Rs 69,926.65 crore, Sitharaman said in her Budget speech. While the overall…
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Blushing linked to brain regions being set off when feeling ‘exposed’ | Life-style News
Blushing – the reddening and warming of cheeks when one becomes self-conscious – could come from increased activity in brain parts involved in emotional arousal when one feels “exposed,” a study has found. Researchers said that little is known about what is going on underneath while we are blushing – famously described by biologist Charles Darwin as “the most human of all expressions.” The team, including researchers from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, turned to girl teenagers performing karaoke to find out if blushing was a rapid, spontaneous emotional…
Over 4% newborn deaths linked to climate change in lower, middle income countries: Study | World News
Over four per cent of newborn deaths are related to high and low temperatures, driven by climate change, according to research looking at 29 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. Of the four per cent, on average, 1.5 per cent of annual newborn deaths across these countries were linked to extreme heat, while nearly three per cent were linked to extreme cold, said researchers who studied the data between 2001 and 2019. Further, 32 per cent of all heat-related deaths in newborn babies over the…