Get latest articles and stories on Business at LatestLY. Globally, tobacco control measures are not yielding the desired outcomes exacerbating the challenges for policymakers. WHO statistics indicate that 8 million deaths occur every year due to tobacco and an additional 1.2 million deaths are caused due to second-hand smoke. An article by two former WHO officials Prof. Robert Beaglehole and Prof. Ruth Bonita published on Lancet, a global medical journal, suggests that only 30 per cent of the countries are on track to achieve WHO s target of 30 per cent reduction by 2030 in adult tobacco usage. The number of tobacco smokers worldwide is reducing at a much slower rate than expected. India with close to 100 million adult smokers - has a critical public health concern. Business News | Former WHO Officials Highlight a Science-backed Solution to Reduce Tobacco Harm.
While India will finally have a data protection legislation to secure the right to privacy of its citizens, data protection advocates have raised concerns over the powers given to the executive.
India on Friday proposed a
new data privacy law that will allow companies to transfer some
users data abroad, while giving the federal government powers
to exempt state agencies from the law in the. | November 18, 2022
India has defended stricter regulations citing the need to safeguard users interests in a country that has more than 760 million internet users, , data transfer, data transfer bill