The Freedom House report had demoted Indias freedom score from free to partly free, decreasing it to 67 from 71, with 100 being the ranking for the most free country.
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The new rules expand the governments already considerable control over digital entities and will likely affect freedom of expression and privacy.
Indias score decreased from 71 to 67, with 100 being the ranking for the most free country, and its rank fell from 83 to 88 out of 211 countries
Nearly three-quarters of worlds population lived in a country where rights and freedoms dropped, Freedom House says.
Data from the 2021 Freedom in the World report suggests a worldwide "democratic recession" deepened in 2020, with notable declines in the US and India.
The "world's largest democracy" is no longer one of them.
Rights group Freedom House notes a steady erosion of democracy in India, amid declining liberty globally.
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Touchscreens in cars are getting bigger and bigger, and the Cadillac Escalade is the prime example.
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The Biden administration will transform two Texas facilities where detained migrant families are held into Ellis Island-style rapid processing centers, meaning adults and children who cross the border will be housed for a maximum of 72 hours before being released into the U.S.
ICE has begun releasing migrant parents and children from three family detention facilities in Texas and Pennsylvania.
For families separated at the border, the trauma remains even after being reunited.
More than 4,000 migrant children were transferred in January to the custody of the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement.
U.S. immigration authorities will no longer use a small Pennsylvania detention center to hold parents and children seeking asylum, part of a broader shift by President Joe Biden's administration to reduce the use of family detention. In a court filing Friday, the U.S. government said it had released all families detained at the 96-bed Berks County family detention center in Leesport, Pennsylvania. The detention center will instead be used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hol
U.S. immigration authorities will no longer use a small Pennsylvania detention center to hold parents and children seeking asylum
HOUSTON (AP) U.S. immigration authorities will no longer use a small Pennsylvania...
Several men at a Montreal-area immigration detention centre refused food this week to protest what they say are inhumane conditions at the facility and to try and secure their release
In an attempt to prevent the detention of migrant families for weeks or months at a time, the Biden administration plans to release parents and children within 72 hours of their arrival in the United States, a new policy that already is being carried out along the Texas border.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on March 4, 2020, released Yariel Valds Gonzlez from custody. The Washington Blade contributor from Cuba spent nearly a year in detention.
Parents and children arriving at the border would be more quickly released within 72 hours, sources say.
The lawsuit covers people at a detention center in upstate New York.
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I cannot stand the toxic atmosphere of glee around the link between coronavirus and obesity
Studies haveshown that people with obesity are more likely to have worse outcomes from COVID-19 than others with a lower body mass index (BMI).
Death rates were 10 times higher in countries such as the US where at least 50 percent of the total population is overweight, according to a World Health Organization-backed study.
Children burn same calories whether active or sedentary, raising questions about activity and metabolism.
Behavioural psychology aims to help us understand why we make the choices we do.
Britain, Italy and the United States
"We'll bounce back better together," Prime Minister Boris Johnson told overweight Britons on Thursday, championing his own weight loss and health eating diet to try to persuade others to get in shape to reduce coronavirus risks.
The report, which described a "dramatic" correlation between countries' COVID-19 death and obesity rates, found that 90% or 2.2 million of the 2.5 million deaths from the pandemic disease so far were in countries with high levels of obesity. The study analysed the COVID-19 death figures from Johns Hopkins University in the United States and the World Health Organization's Global Health Observatory data on obesity. Strikingly, the authors said, there is no example of a count
COVID deaths about 10 times higher in countries where half or more of the population is overweight, new study finds.
A report by the World Obesity Federation found that 88 percent of deaths due to covid-19 in the first year of the pandemic were in countries where more than half of the population is classified as overweight.
NHS and councils in England also being given £70m towards weight loss and fitness courses
Interpol warns fake vaccines seized in China and South Africa are tip of iceberg; Brazil suffers another day of record Covid deaths; Greece prolongs lockdown to 16 March
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These areas are vehicle electrification, sustainable energy, and carbon "sequestration." For the first, FedEx plans to replace its entire fleet of pickup and delivery trucks with zero-emission...
Logistics giant FedEx said on Wednesday that it aims to replace all of its parcel pickup and deliveryvehicles with a sustainable electric fleet by 2040.
The Texas winter storm caused major power fluctuations and outages, but a UPS, or uninterrupted power supply, kept home Wi-Fi connected.
Keep your packages and groceries secure and fresh for hours with the DeliverySafe insulated package delivery box.
Lee Klaskow, a senior transportation and logistics analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence, said FedEx is unlikely to follow suit.
Our Green Zone Ratings model is "Strong Bullish" on UPS stock as shopping online becomes the new norm for households across America.
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The US delivery giant says the job cuts will happen over 18 months as it integrates former rival TNT.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) FedEx plans to cut up to 6,300 jobs in Europe as it completes the process of folding a Dutch company it bought into its own delivery...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) FedEx plans to cut up to 6,300 jobs in Europe as it completes the...
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