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Emphasising the need for India to address flavoured smokeless tobacco with stronger regulation, the authors recommended a ban on use of flavours such as menthol to reduce the appeal of smokeless tobacco and introduction of stricter rules for loose SLT, which currently escapes many regulatory measures.
The government of Karnataka had issued an order in 2021-22 granting 730 days’ CCL to women employees, in the cases of those with physically and mentally challenged children, subject to certain conditions. It also announced CCL for other women government employees for a total period of six months (180 days), in addition to the existing maternity leave.
Project Raptor Watch 2.0 by Madras Naturalists’ Society has spread its wings and achieved elevation. Among the exercises that have taken substantial shape are: the data-driven study of Peregrine falcons in markedly urban sites and a close look at the fluctuating Black kite population around the Perungudi dump site and the breeding patterns of the Red necked falcon