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Air pollution reduces the life of a common Indian by one and a half years. Scientists say that the superior quality of air can increase human life in the world.

This is the first time that data has been studied simultaneously on air pollution and life span in order to find out how the global difference in it affects overall life expectancy.

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin, USA, studied air pollution from particles (PM) less than 2.5 microns found in the atmosphere. These micro particles can enter the lungs and there is a risk of heart attack, strokes, respiratory diseases and cancer. PM 2.5 pollution is generated by power plants, cars, trucks, fire, farming and industrial emissions.

Scientists found that the air pollution reduces the age in 1.87 years in Bangladesh, 1.85 years in Egypt, 1.56 years in Pakistan, 1.48 years in Saudi Arabia, 1.28 years in Nigeria and 1.25 years in China. According to the study, the air pollution reduces 1.53 years in the average age of Indians.

A fear of sexual attacks is hanging over Spain's famous running of the bulls.

The annual event is under way in Pamplona but there's outrage over what's been called the ''Wolf Pack'' case.

A group of five friends were convicted on a lesser charge after being accused of gang-raping a woman at the festival.

Al Jazeera's Karl Penhaul looks at what women are doing to protect themselves.

The US seafood industry is feeling the pinch of Trump's tightening immigration policies, which has created a shortage of labourers.

Those in Maryland's crab meat sector say many businesses that employ foreign workers are now in danger of shutting down.

Al Jazeera's Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Hoopers Island.

Cities around the world are struggling with the effects of climate change.

One of the biggest challenges is ensuring clean drinking water now and in the future.

As part of Al Jazeera's "thirst" series, Rob Reynolds reports from Los Angeles on the looming problems for millions of Californians.

Nine out of 10 people worldwide are breathing air with high levels of pollutants.

That's the alarming assessment from new data produced by the World Health Organization.

And it is the people living in poorer countries who are at the highest risk.

Al Jazeera's Natasha Ghoneim reports.

In India, an Islamic institution of Hyderabad has issued a fatwa for Muslims. Fatwah says that Muslims do not eat prawns, crab and shrimp. These foods are harm in Islam. According to the news, Fatwa was released on January 1 by Mufti Mohammad Azimuddin of Jamia Nizamia.

This institution is about 142 years old. It also comes under Deemed University. In this case Mufti Mohammad Azimuddin has come under the scourge of dispute by issuing fatwa by the institution.

However, other religious institutions have expressed their opinion against the fatwa. They say that there is no logic behind this fatwa.

Actually, fatwas have said that prawns is an arthropod and it is in the category of Makarooh Tarahim, for Muslims, this food is haram. The fatwas further said, "Therefore Muslims are advised, they do not eat all this."

In fact, Mufti says that Islam has three categories under which the food is haram. These are the categories - halal, ban and disgusting.

Tell that there is also a subcategory in Makarooh category. There are also things, that are considered disgusting to eat, but they can be eaten, while completely prohibited food items coming in Makarooh Tarahim from eating.

Significantly, Jamia Nizamia is a famous Islamic educational institution, which is seen as a prestigious institution in many other countries.

Famous physicist Stephen Hawking has once again warned mankind. He said that in order to preserve mankind's existence, mankind should soon find another earth or planet.

In his interview to Wire Magazine, Stephen Hawking said that the world is facing highly environmental and technological challenges and needs to work together and unite together to protect humanity.

He said that we now have the technology to destroy our planet, but the ability to escape from it has not developed so far. Maybe in a few hundred years we will settle human habitations between stars, but at the moment we have only one planet and we need to work together to save it.

The famous scientist Hawking said that Artificial Intelligence will cause the destruction of humans on Earth. He said that I am afraid that Artificial Intelligence will force humans to migrate from Earth to another. In such a situation people should find their new location soon on other planets during the time.

American scientists have created two new molecular editing equipment on Wednesday. This will help to fix the mutations. Mutations cause many diseases, some of which have no cure.

David Leu of Howard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard provide a very accurate way to correct the mistakes of gene, which are made of Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA.

A second discovery by the molecular biologist Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute, which focuses on editing ribonucleic acid or RNA. It does genetic direction to make the protein without replacing the DNA.

India's doctor or primary care consultant gives patients two minutes only. It has been revealed by a research. This is revealed in the largest international research on medical consultation.

The situation is even worse in neighboring countries of Bangladesh and Pakistan, where consultation time is only 1.3 minutes from 48 seconds.

This research was published on Thursday in Medical Journal BMJ Open. In contrast, in countries like Sweden, America and Norway, the average time of consultation is 20 minutes.

This research was done by researchers from many hospitals in the United Kingdom.

It has been said in the journal, "It is a matter of concern that 18 countries where 50 per cent of the world's population live. The average consultation time here is 5 minutes or less.

According to the study, patients are spending more time on pharmacy or eating antibiotics and their relationships with their doctors are not as good.

Reduction of consultation time means that there is a big problem in the healthcare system. In the context of India, local experts say that these hospitals show crowd and a lack of primary care physicians. Primary care doctors are different from consultants who are trained in a particular branch of medicine.

Nobody was surprised by the fact that the consultation in India got two minutes. Health commentator Ravi Duggal says, "Everyone knows that doctors are able to give patients less time due to crowding in hospitals."

According to Dr Duggal, "There is no new thing that doctors get confused with the symptoms of patients."

In the private clinics and hospitals, this is also the case of the crowd. Here doctors only ask questions and can perform very little physical examination.

There is a difference in diseases in the Western and Indian consultations. Dr. Suhas of Maharashtra explains, "In Sweden, patients have a Psychosocial problem rather than viral fever. In the same India, if the doctor has information about any particular virus in the air, then they can easily treat many people." In the BMJ Open Study, the poor condition of health services of many countries was noticed.

To prevent the growing pollution in India's Delhi, the administration on Tuesday increased the vehicle parking fee four times. This decision was taken at a meeting of the Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control Authority (EPCA) appointed by the Supreme Court so that people make less use of private vehicles.

The situation of air pollution in Delhi has worsened and on Tuesday it reached the alarming level. The National Capital Territory witnessed the worst air quality and mist position of the year, which is worse than Diwali. There is a yellow blanket of mist in the sky of Delhi.

It is worth mentioning that 18 of the 21 active pollution monitoring centers have recorded serious air quality. Along with this, pollution has reached the hazardous level.

Since last evening, the quality and visibility of the air has been declining rapidly and due to the combination of moisture and pollutants, the city has a dense mist. This is a very serious situation, but according to global standards, it is also dangerous.

If the situation is bad and persists for at least 48 hours then the workforce under GRAP can close schools and start the even-odd plan.

In this regard, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asked Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia to consider keeping the schools closed for a few days in view of the rising pollution in the city. After this, Sisodia has convened a meeting of officials of the education, health and environmental departments.

Sisodia has also directed the Environment Department to submit a report on the city's pollution level by Tuesday evening. He said that the Delhi Government will take a final decision on closing schools after studying the report and on the different days of the week to plan to run vehicles according to the even-odd numbers.