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<ul><li>Delhi has reported a surge in <keyword id="20233512" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dengue-cases" source="keywords">dengue cases</keyword>, with 300 new cases reported in the last seven days.</li><li>This takes the total number of dengue cases reported in Delhi to 1,229 in 2024.</li><li>There has also been a rise in malaria and <keyword id="22649903" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chikungunya-cases" source="keywords">chikungunya cases</keyword>.</li></ul>Delhi has reported over 300 dengue cases in the past seven days, taking the total number of cases in the national capital so far this year to 1,229 as mosquito-borne diseases seemingly are on a slow but steady rise in the city, according to official data. Cases of malaria are considerably higher so far when compared to last year. Delhi has reported 363 malaria cases till this month while the figure stood at 294 in the corresponding month in 2023. As per a PTI report, the total malaria cases last year were 426. Most malaria cases are reported from the West Delhi zone. As for Chikungunya, 43 cases have been reported so far. This is nearly double than last year when the figure stood at 23. A total of 65 cases of the virus were reported last year. The most number of chikungunya cases have been reported from the South Delhi zone this year. Last week, the city witnessed a spike of nearly 250 cases of dengue in seven days. As per Municipal Corporation of Delhi's (MCD) data from January till September 21, a total of 1,229 dengue cases have been reported in the city with the death of a 54-year old registered in Lok Nayak Hospital, a senior official at the hospital had confirmed. Delhi reported 651 cases of dengue this month. Last month, a total of 256 dengue cases were reported in the city. The number of cases has become three-digit since August, it said. Last year, Delhi reported 3,013 dengue cases till the corresponding month, a manifold increase from 525 in 2022. A total of 9,266 cases were reported in the entire year while 19 dengue deaths were registered in the city last year. In September alone, the figure stood at 2,141 cases in 2023. The most number of cases this year are reported from the Najafgarg zone at 180. In a week, 45 cases have been reported in the area, the highest of all the zones besides the south zone where an equal number of cases were reported this week. The non-MCD areas governed by other agencies like NDMC, Delhi Cantt, and Railways, reported 312 dengue cases to the total tally, as per the data. To enforce mosquito control laws, the MCD has issued over 1.14 lakh legal notices and 39,338 challans to those who allowed mosquito breeding on their properties. Repeat offenders have been fined Rs 24.82 lakh, and police complaints have been filed against 9,241 people who didn't follow the rules, as per the data. The civic body also plans to increase fogging operations at major upcoming public events like Dussehra and Durga Puja and step up inspections and anti-larval measures in areas with high mosquito populations to curb the infectivity of the virus. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/sebi-report-reveals-the-ugly-truth-of-fo-trading-in-india-93-of-retail-traders-incurred-losses/articleshow/113620397.cms">SEBI report reveals the ugly truth of F&amp;O trading in India – 93% of retail traders incurred losses</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/gopro-hero-the-companys-smallest-4k-camera-launched-at-23990/articleshow/113591944.cms">GoPro Hero, the company’s smallest 4K camera launched at ₹23,990</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/telecom/news/jio-and-airtel-lost-subscribers-in-july-after-tariff-hike-bsnl-records-growth/articleshow/113548793.cms">Jio and Airtel lost subscribers in July after tariff hike, BSNL records growth</a>

Delhi reports over 300 dengue cases in a week; malaria and chikungunya cases on the rise

<ul class="summary-list"><li>North Korea floated another 720 trash-filled balloons into South Korea, local reports said.</li><li>Pyongyang says it is retaliation for activists sending anti-North Korean leaflets across the border.</li></ul>North Korea launched another 720 balloons across its border with South Korea Saturday night, carrying plastic bags full of cigarette butts, scraps of cloth, and waste paper.Pyongyang says it was retaliation for activists sending anti-North Korean leaflets and USB drives containing K-pop music across the border.South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240602000753315">720 balloons carrying trash </a>were floated into the country, while Reuters quoted a figure of 600.Since last Tuesday, North Korea has sent up between 850 and almost 1,000 balloons across the demilitarized zone, spreading trash in the capital Seoul and other parts of the country.The trash balloons adds to a recent series of provocative steps by North Korea, including its failed spy satellite launch on Monday and a barrage of short-range missile launches on Thursday seen as an attempt to demonstrate the country's ability to preemptively strike its neighbor.The South Korean military advised citizens not to touch the balloons, warning of possible danger, said the Yonhap News Agency.The government in Seoul sent text alerts informing the public that unidentified objects from North Korea had been detected in the skies above the city and that the military was responding to them, <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-trash-balloons-leaflets-tensions-7a9b372462a8390f279e5288923a8da3">per the Associated Press.</a><div type="image" title="South Korean soldiers in uniform stand in the road, with two balloons atop a utility pole in the background." height="2400" width="3000" msid="110640858" hostid="261" sizebytes="453822"></div>Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Sunday denounced North Korea's launch of trash balloons as a "depraved provocation," adding that such actions were "unacceptable to the international community," said the Yonhap News Agency."The government will deal with them calmly, focusing on securing national safety," Han said.Sung Tae-yoon, director of national policy in the presidential office, said, "North Korea's ballistic missile provocations, GPS jamming, and trash balloons harm our people and threaten our security."<div type="image" title="FILE - This photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, shows balloons with trash presumably sent by North Korea, in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. North Korea launched more trash-carrying balloons toward the South after a similar campaign earlier in the week, according to South Korea's military, in what Pyongyang calls retaliation for activists flying anti-North Korean leaflets across the border. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP, File)" height="1024" width="682" msid="110640860" hostid="261" sizebytes="66506"></div>South Korea's military deployed chemical rapid response and explosive clearance teams to recover debris from approximately 260 North Korean balloons <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-launches-trash-manure-balloons-south-korea-2024-5">discovered</a> across the country on Tuesday night.According to the military, this first barrage of balloons contained manure but no hazardous substances such as chemical, biological, or radioactive materials.South Korea's defense ministry confirmed the presence of fertilizer <a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-sends-balloons-filled-trash-waste-south-kim-jong-un-rcna154435">to NBC News</a>, not human excrement, which earlier reports had speculated — though the outlet said human feces were sent by North Korea in 2016.Some of the balloons were equipped with timers, suggesting that they were intended to release the trash in midair, AP reported.In a statement on Wednesday, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, called the balloons "sincere presents" for South Korean "goblins of democracy who are crying for the guarantee of freedom of expression," <a target="_blank" href="https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-05-30/national/northKorea/Norths-Kim-Yojong-calls-fecesfilled-balloons-sincere-presents-for-goblins-of-democracy-in-South/2057993">according to a statement by state-run Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday.</a>

North Korea sends new wave of up to 720 trash-filled balloons into South Korea

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The BRICS group of emerging nations is exploring the idea of a common currency.</li><li>But China and India — the two biggest economies in the bloc — often can't get along.</li></ul>Whether it's the Chinese yuan or gold or even bitcoin, a discussion about <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dedollarization-usd-greenback-gold-yuan-euro-bitcoin-brics-alternate-2023-5#the-dollar-isnt-going-away-but-other-assets-classes-are-slowly-chipping-away-at-its-dominance-1">alternatives to the US dollar</a> as the world's reserve currency has been raging for over a year.Fanned by fears that <a href="https://www.statestreet.com/sg/en/asset-manager/insights/weaponization-of-us-dollar" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Washington is weaponizing</a> the US-dollar-denominated global financial system against Russia over the Ukraine war, the debate has gotten so intense that there was even talk during a bloc summit in August about <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/de-dollarization-dominance-yuan-china-brics-alternative-currency-sanction-russia-2023-4?utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest&amp;utm_source=markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">creating a dollar-challenging common BRICS currency</a>.The bloc is helmed by the major emerging nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.And one expert — the former White House economist Joseph Sullivan — even said a BRICS single currency could erode the dominance of <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/de-dollarization-dominance-yuan-china-brics-alternative-currency-sanction-russia-2023-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the dollar</a>.Creating a common currency isn't easy, however, and would require the diverse <a href="https://theconversation.com/a-brics-currency-is-unlikely-to-dislodge-dollar-any-time-soon-but-it-signifies-growing-challenge-to-established-economic-order-206565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BRICS countries to align</a> on several issues, including setting up a central bank and phasing out their currencies.For example, <a href="https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/euro/history-and-purpose_en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the euro</a> took decades of preparation within Europe, and the currency's use globally is still a far second to the US dollar's. In August, the greenback accounted for 48% of global payments via the SWIFT messaging system — way ahead of the euro's share at 23%.There's also one other problem. India and China — the two biggest economies in the bloc — can't quite get along.Even Jim O'Neill, the former Goldman Sachs chief economist who came up with the BRIC acronym in 2001 (South Africa joined the bloc in 2010 to round up BRICS) has been fielding interview questions about the proposed idea of a BRICS single currency on repeat mode recently."You can't even get India and China in the same room, so the idea that they would commit to a shared currency and abandon their own domestic monetary policy, it's just kind of crazy," O'Neill told Insider.Other analysts also described relations between China and India as tense.<h2>China-India's terse relations are said to be a 'pain point' in the BRICS bloc</h2>While Beijing and New Delhi appear actively engaged with each other, the two counties' ties have been strained. In short, they appear to be <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/world-can-learn-from-frenemies-india-china-akbaruddin/articleshow/63414400.cms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frenemies</a>.China and India's relationship <a href="https://www.mea.gov.in/Portal/ForeignRelation/China_October_2017.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goes back centuries</a>, but the two have been embroiled in a territorial dispute along their shared Himalayan border in contemporary history — and even fought a war in 1962.While recent decades have been more amicable, the neighbors have appeared to be getting deeper into frenemy territory since 2020 amid the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-china-border-dispute-conflict-soldiers-killed-himalayas-2020-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border dispute</a> and rising nationalism in both <a href="https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/01/21/how-nationalism-is-shaping-chinas-young" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> and <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/india/2022-04-13/unstoppable-rise-hindu-nationalism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">India</a>.The two sides appeared to make up in August at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, when China's leader, Xi Jinping, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to de-escalate tensions at the disputed border.Barely a month later, the relationship was again in question when Xi did not attend the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china-says-premier-li-will-attend-g20-summit-2023-09-04/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">G20 Summit</a> in New Delhi — the first time since 2008 when he didn't attend the conference. Beijing didn't explain Xi's absence, and Premier Li Qiang led the Chinese delegation instead.Liu Pengyu, China's Washington, DC, spokesperson, told Insider that Xi most recently spoke with Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit — at the request of the Indian leader."President Xi stressed that improving China-India relations serves the common interests of the two countries and peoples, and is also conducive to peace, stability, and development of the world and the region," said Liu, who added that the situation at the border was stable.Politics aside, it doesn't help that the two countries have become strategic competitors on the economic front, too. China, the world's second-largest economy, is worth $19.4 trillion, per the International Monetary Fund. India is the world's fifth-largest economy, with a gross domestic product of $3.7 trillion. There's little indication India's GDP will overtake China's in the <a href="https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/how-india-could-rise-to-the-worlds-second-biggest-economy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">next five decades</a>, but there's still no denying the world's top two emerging markets are fierce rivals.By UN estimates, India overtook China earlier this year as the world's most populous country. As a large country with a young population — the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/09/key-facts-as-india-surpasses-china-as-the-worlds-most-populous-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">median age is 28</a> — it's an enticing draw for companies looking to diversify their risks beyond China, which has been the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-india-supply-chain-covid-sanctions-manufacturers-relocating-tariffs-options-2022-12" rel="">factory of the world</a> for 40 years.Among the five BRICS members, the "biggest pain point" is India-China friction, Abishur Prakash, the founder of the advisory firm The Geopolitical Business, told Insider. He added it's "highly unlikely either country will rely on a currency dominated by the other party."And given that China and India are the biggest players in BRICS, it's crucial they must at least come to some common ground for a common currency to happen, O'Neill said.For what it's worth, the August <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/dedollarization-china-india-russia-leaders-brics-summit-yuan-rupee-2023-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BRICS summit</a> ended with no new currency and all five members issuing differing and contradictory commentary on de-dollarization. It also appears that it's just <a href="https://think.ing.com/opinions/brics-the-new-name-in-reserve-currencies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russia</a> and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/spain-brazil-lula-idUSL1N36T1WW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brazil</a> that have really pushed for a BRICS common currency. China hasn't commented on the idea, while India and South Africa said it wasn't on the agenda at the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/what-is-brics-currency-could-one-be-adopted-2023-08-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest summit</a>.<h2>A BRICS currency — if it comes to pass — could have a narrow use</h2>For Amitendu Palit, the research lead for trade and economics at the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, there are bigger issues standing in the way of a common BRICS currency — like diverse regulatory environments and how all its members' currencies can't be easily traded on foreign-exchange markets.As for political differences, Palit thinks countries are ultimately rational. Both China and India are conscious that they are competitors, and while "nobody is going to really grant concessions to each other, that does not mean that they stop working with each other," Palit told Insider."The important thing," Palit continued, "is that both countries have stayed engaged with each other."O'Neill, the skeptical father of the BRICS political bloc, still sees great potential for the group — if its members can only work together. But even if a BRICS currency comes to pass, its use could be limited.Prakash said a BRICS currency would be used in "very narrow and vertical settings, or for BRICS projects."India's External Affairs Ministry did not respond to multiple requests for comment sent by Insider.

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