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Identify high-value cash transactions at hotels, hospitals; pursue arrear demands: CBDT to I-T dept
Senior IT officials told that transactions over Rs 2 lakh in cash...
Nagaraju Maddirala appointed as new DFS Secy
Nagaraju Maddirala, Secretary-Designate, Department of Financial...
Amazon, Citi, other companies take stance on abortion rights in US with travel benefit
The issue has gained urgency now that 31 states have introduced abortion bans this year, according to policy analysis by research group Guttmacher Institute By offering support for employees who may need to travel out of state for abortions, Yelp and other companies...
EU citizens may sue countries for health-damaging dirty air, top court adviser says
The opinion concerns a case brought by a Paris resident seeking 21 million euros in compensation from the French government, on the grounds that air pollution damaged his health and the government failed to ensure compliance with EU limits BRUSSELS: Citizens in...
Validity of models, methodology of data collection questionable: India on WHO COVID deaths report
In a report released on Thursday, the WHO estimated that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million According to the WHO...
India’s Health Card: Fertility rate falls further, Obesity rises
According to the National Report of the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5),the Total Fertility Rates (TFR), an average number of children per women, has further declined from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level between NFHS-4 & 5. At national...
Nearly 15 million deaths directly or indirectly linked to COVID-19
“The United Nations system is working together to deliver an authoritative assessment of the global toll of lives lost from the pandemic. This work is an important part of UN DESA’s ongoing collaboration with WHO and other partners to improve global mortality...
WHO warns of worsening obesity ‘epidemic’ in Europe
"Obesity is influenced by the environment, so it is important to look at this problem from the perspective of every stage of life. For example, the life of children and adolescents is impacted by digital environments, including marketing of unhealthy food and drinks,"...
India’s ‘first’ tribal health observatory to come up in Odisha
It will perform systematic and ongoing observation on disease burden, health-seeking behaviour and healthcare delivery system pertaining to tribal health in the state Bhubaneswar: Odisha is set to come up with India's ''only'' observatory that will establish a...
Heat waves-testing the limits of human survival in India
Daily power outages driven by a surge in demand for electricity have resulted in blackouts as long as eight hours in some parts of India, while coal stocks — the fuel that accounts for 70% of the country’s electricity generation — are running low, prompting warnings...
82 lakh deaths in 2020 in India; 1.48 lakh due to COVID-19: RGI
According to Union health ministry data, provided on Tuesday morning, 5,23,889 people have lost their lives to the virus in the country since early 2020. Registered births, the data said, decreased from 2.48 crore in 2019 to 2.42 crore in 2020, a drop of about 2.4 per...
India’s Covid positivity rate past 1% again after 2 months
The number of active cases rose by 408 in a 24-hour span to reach 19,500, the data updated at 8 am showed New Delhi: India's Covid case positivity rate went past one per cent again after over two months as the country witnessed a single-day rise of 3,157 infections...