Venya Rai

Recent monsoon rainfall distribution in India has shown significant variations, with some states facing deficits and others experiencing surpluses. The delay in La Nina formation could impact crop sowing. Despite government efforts to promote millet cultivation, acreage has declined while overall kharif crop acreage has increased compared to last year.

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Oxford's 12 lakh excess death estimate using NFHS 2019-21 data, rejected by India's health ministry as 'gross and misleading,' showed a 2.6-year life expectancy decline, particularly affecting Muslims (5.4 years). Union health ministry Saturday criticised the methodology of taking a subset of households included in the NFHS survey between Jan and April 2021, and comparing the mortality in these households in 2020 with 2019, and then extrapolating the results to the entire country.

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A faulty software update from CrowdStrike caused widespread disruptions, impacting critical services globally. CEO George Kurtz explains the issue and provides a fix for customers. Incident not a cyberattack, and systems affected during specific timeframe.

A candidate with muscular dystrophy, Kartik Kansal, has been denied service despite clearing the civil services exams four times. There are discrepancies in the eligibility criteria for different services. In 2021, when he was ranked 271, even without a disability quota he ought to have got the IAS, since that year those ranked 272 and 273 got IAS. However, in 2021, muscular dystrophy was not included in the list of conditions in functional classification eligible for IAS.