“The month of August has almost been dry, so a drought situation is...
Category:
Disaster & Management
Latest
Rajasthan govt committed to ensuring minimum loss, maximum relief for people during disasters: Gehlot
Department of Agriculture and Horticulture Secretary Prithviraj...
African children bearing the brunt of climate change impacts
Children in 48 out of 49 African countries assessed were found to...
China’s annual dog-meat fair opens; activists hope for last time
The coronavirus, which is believed to have originated in horseshoe bats before crossing into humans in a market in the city of Wuhan, has forced China to reassess its relationship with animals, and it has vowed to ban the wildlife trade.
In April, Shenzhen became the first city in China to ban the consumption of dogs, with others expected to follow.
India’s COVID-19 tally 4,25,282 with 14,821 fresh cases, death toll rises to 13,699
The country crossed the four lakh-mark on Sunday eight days after recording three lakh COVID-19 cases and has witnessed a surge of 2,34,747 infections from June 1 till 22.India registered over 10,000 cases for the 11th day in a row
The number of recoveries also continued to surge with 2,37,195 patients cured so far, while there were 1,74,387 active cases, according to the updated official figures at 8 am.One patient has migrated
Hetero, Cipla get nod to manufacture, market antiviral drug remdesivir
The Union health ministry, in its ‘Clinical Management Protocols for COVID-19’, recommended the use of the remdesivir on patients in moderate stage of the disease that is, those on oxygen. The drug has been included as an “investigational therapy” only for restricted emergency use purposes.
It is not recommended for those with severe renal impairment and high level of liver enzymes, pregnant and lactating women, and those below 12 years, the document on ‘Clinical Management Protocols for COVID-19’ stated.
Coronavirus crisis: Centre extends Rs 50 lakh insurance cover for healthcare providers till September
The insurance cover despite being a well-publicised scheme, awareness of the same appearsto be little amongst some of State Nodal Agencies as a substantial number of some 75 claims, lodged till date are outside the purview of the policy on account of either the deceased not being a health worker or the deceased having died of other than corona related ailments, said Atul Sahay CMD, NIA.
SBI’s new mantra work-from-anywhere
On the business side, the focus of the bank in the days ahead would be on revisiting risk assessment and business procedures in addition to rapid adoption of digital technology, said State Bank of India’s annual report.
“Bank will also have to revisit its risk management framework, its internal models of risk assessment and capital planning and business procedures to better adapt to new operating environment,” the report said.
China bans some US hen, shuts Pepsi plant to struggle coronavirus
Officials on Friday additionally introduced a nationwide marketing campaign to examine all contemporary merchandise coming from “high-risk countries” following stories of recent virus clusters at crops in Germany and the US.
Insurers need to be flexible with customers following unemployment spikes,says GlobalData
“Insurers need to be flexible with their customers in order to reduce the impact of rising unemployment. Payment holidays can help for a limited time period. Insurers should also be flexible and allow their customers to adjust their level of cover to one that is more affordable for them. The development of usage-based policies and short-term, on-demand policies with lower premiums will also help insurers retain some of their customers during difficult times, said Yasha Kuruvilla, Insurance Analyst at GlobalData
Govt warns against large-scale phishing attacks using COVID-19 as bait
‘Such emails are designed to drive recipients towards fake websites where they are deceived into downloading malicious files or entering personal and financial information,’ Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said in its latest advisory dated June 19.
The advisory noted that the ‘malicious actors’ are claiming to have 2 million individual/citizen email IDs and are planning to send email with the subject line: free COVID-19 testing for all residents of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Ahmedabad in a bid to coax users to disclose personal information
Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s wealthiest man, joins club of world’s 10 richest
The net worth of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd., has jumped to $64.5 billion, making him the only Asian tycoon in the exclusive club of the world’s top 10 richest people, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He overtook Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp. and France’s Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the wealthiest woman, to reach the No. 9 spot.mbani, who owns 42% of Reliance, has benefited from a flurry of investment into the company’s digital unit, Jio Platforms Ltd., that Reliance said has made it net-debt free ahead of a March 2021 target. The shares of the Indian conglomerate have doubled from a low in March, just as other billionaires on the list have been hit by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
New quarantine norms may turn away Delhiites from getting tested: Experts
Noted city-based lung surgeon Dr Arvind Kumar on Saturday said the move would ramp up the demand for Covid care beds manifold, given the fact that the city government was already trying hard to manage beds to meet the huge projected requirements in view of the growing number of Covid-19 cases.