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Operating mall without environmental nod extremely serious HC upholds closure order
The petitioner company, Grauer and Weil (India) Limited, considers...
Finland ranks world’s happiest again with US at worst-ever level
Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and the Netherlands rounded out the top...
Sensex sheds 1,300 points in trade today, investors lose Rs 4 lakh crore
The shares touched three-week lows on Monday, hammered by losses in IT stocks after Infosys crashed 9% on missing March-quarter profit estimates, while inflation concerns globally also weighed on investors' sentiment. Within an hour of trading, market capitalisation...
China hiding real Covid deaths by masking cause of death: Report
Citing Financial Times, Taiwan News reported that if someone dies after contracting COVID-19 but had, for example, cancer, heart disease, or diabetes at the time, Chinese hospitals would not classify the death as resulting from COVID-19, but as a chronic illness...
China unlikely to achieve GDP targets due to COVID-19 crisis
Experts from 12 financial institutions polled a French-based media forecast a GDP growth of 5.0 pc for the full year. They expect a figure of 4.3pc for the first quarter, just above the 4.0pc recorded in the three months prior, as per the media outlet It is not just...
Govt mulling integrating helpline numbers to improve emergency response
Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) is a Pan-India single number (112) for citizens in emergencies while 1098 is a toll free, phone outreach service for children. The helpline 181 is for providing services to women in need and distress. The official said the...
Mutual funds add over 3 cr folios in FY22 on sharp rally in equity market, digitisation
The mutual fund space has been witnessing consistent growth in folio numbers in the past few years. It saw an addition of 73 lakh investor accounts in 2019-20, 1.13 crore in 2018-19, 1.6 crore in 2017-18, over 67 lakh in 2016-17 and 59 lakh in 2015-16 Mumbai: Mutual...
Study: Agriculture will play important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Although most greenhouse gas emissions come from energy production, agriculture and changes in land use account for about 22 per cent of all carbon dioxide emissions. If these numbers could be reduced, either by curbing deforestation or turning to alternative...
India questions WHO’s methodology to estimate COVID-19 mortalities
The Union health ministry issued a statement in response to a New York Times article titled “India Is Stalling WHO's Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public” dated April 16, saying the country has on several occasions shared its concerns with the global health...
Mysterious liver illness seen in kids in US, Europe
“Given the increase in cases reported over the past one month and enhanced case search activities, more cases are likely to be reported in the coming days,” WHO officials said in a statement. The U.S. children ranged in age from 1 to 6 years old, and two required...
Rising Covid cases causing anxiety among Delhi traders, businessmen
After bearing the brunt of intermittent Covid waves and subsequent lockdowns over two years, things finally started to look upside for the businesses in the capital. However, the recent rise in cases has caused anxiety New Delhi: Delhi on Saturday witnessed another...
Cyclones in Africa exacerbated by climate change: Study
“While our analysis clearly shows that climate change made the storms more damaging, our ability to establish precisely by how much was hampered by inconsistent data and lack of weather observations. This would also help to improve forecasts of extreme weather events...