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India can avert 4.6 mn deaths by 2040 with better hypertension control: WHO
Uncontrolled hypertension is known to cause heart attack, stroke...
Annual cost for reaching the SDGs? More than $5 trillion
When expanded to cover all developing economies, using the median...
India facing shortage of 600,000 doctors, 2 million nurses: Study
The majority of the world’s annual 5.7 million antibiotic-treatable deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries where the mortality burden from treatable bacterial infections far exceeds the estimated annual 700,000 deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections.
India delays May order for Iran oil, awaits clarity on US sanctions: Report
Washington had given a six-month waiver to eight nations including India, allowing them to import some Iranian oil until early May. India, Iran’s top oil client after China, was allowed to buy about 9 million barrels a month.
SC refuses to entertain plea challenging Aadhaar Ordinance
A bench of Justices S A Bobde and S A Nazeer said they are not expressing anything on the merits of the case and they would like to have the view of the high court on the issue.
Monsoon rains seen below normal this year: Skymet
The monsoon season delivers about 70 per cent of India’s annual rainfall and is key to the success of the farm sector in Asia’s third-biggest economy.
Air pollution kills 1.2 mn Indians in a year, third biggest cause of death
Worldwide, air pollution is responsible for more deaths than many better-known risk factors such as malnutrition, alcohol use and physical inactivity, according to the annual report.
Congress Party promises `Right to Healthcare Act’
The party will work towards improving public healthcare. “We will ensure the poor have access to high quality health care,” he said. The manifesto promised to double expenditure on healthcare to 3% of GDP by 2023-’24 and to enact the Right to Healthcare Act.
More US industries depend on weather tracking
About one-third of the U.S.’s $18 trillion gross national product is generated by industries vulnerable to changes in the weather. There were 14 weather events that caused at least $1 billion in damages in the U.S. last year, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. That’s more than the 6.2 per year average from 1980 to 2018.
IRDA set to allow claim settlement in installments in healh & PA policies
IRDA has favoured the concept of payments of claims in installments in respect of personal accident policies issued by general and health insurers and benefit based health insurance policies issued by all insurers as claims offer an income in the hands of the claimants for a reasonable period of time on the happening of the contingent event insured under an underlying policy.
Foreign investors pull out Rs 44,500 crore from Indian market in 2018-19
On last Friday, the last working day of FY 2018-19 ,the 30-share pack Sensex closed higher by 127 points, or 0.33 per cent, at 38,673. This was Sensex’s best gains in four financial years.
India has huge potential, the real question is speed of growth: Indra Nooyi
“As long as you go into a country and develop a local model and execute it locally, you live within the rules of that country. Don’t compromise your corporate governance principles.You have got to be aware of politics, be sensitive to all the minefields, but don’t play in them, don’t take a voice in them because that is a losing proposition,” she said, adding that if companies have knowledge of what’s going on but they just focus on doing their business, they will be successful.