Day: January 19, 2021

Jammu and Kashmir pushes for GI tag for Guchi Mushrooms.

January 19, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

14 January 2021. Introduction: A geographical indication (GI) tag has been sought for one of the costliest mushrooms in the world that grows in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district. The GI tag application for Gucchi mushroom was filed at the Geographical Indication Registry recently by Jammu-based NGO Border World Foundation and facilitated by the Director […]

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Flint Water Crisis.

January 19, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

18 January 2020. Introduction: The Flint water crisis is an ongoing public health crisis that began in 2014 when the City of Flint in Michigan–which has a population of roughly 100,000–changed its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint river. This switch caused the water distribution pipes to corrode, as a result of which […]

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