• Indian-origin global health expert Anil Soni has been appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer of the newly launched The WHO Foundation, which works alongside the World Health Organization to address most pressing health challenges across the world.
• Mr Soni will assume his role as The WHO Foundation's inaugural Chief Executive Officer on January 1 next year.

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Mount Everest is 2.8 feet taller as China and Nepal finally agree on the height of the world's highest peak

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• The world’s highest peak just got a little taller.
• A joint survey by China and Nepal has concluded that the height of Mount Everest is not 8,848 metres but 8,848.86 metres — an increase of 2.8 feet.
• Nepal and China share the grand expanse of the mountain.

Disagreements on height
• This brings the disagreements between Nepal and China over Mount Everest’s exact height to an end.
• The disagreement over the difference in the height of a little of three metres stemmed from a single question — whether to include the mountain's snowcap or limit its height to the rock base.
• Since Nepal’s measurement of the ‘Sagarmatha’ — what the locals call Mount Everest — agreed with India’s 1954 Survey, it became the global standard. This was bolstered by the fact that most other countries included the snowcap when measuring their peaks.
• It also puts to rest the speculation by geologists th