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Legal heirs can claim reimbursement if govt employee dies during treatment: Allahabad HC
The court rejected this argument of the state government, stating...
Dip-stick Survey:DFS Secy takes up unsatisfied closed complaints with banks and insurers
M Nagaraju, secretary, Department of Financial Services Till date...
General Insurers’ total Jan premium rises 15% to Rs 33,346 crore
With another two months, February and March, to go before the current fiscal, FY 26, comes to an end , the industry’s total premium has already exceeded Rs 2.83 trillion till January whereas in FY 25,the industry’s total premium was over Rs 3.07 trillion Mumbai:Post...
India expected to see surge in Parkinson’s disease, becoming 2nd-highest in 5 yrs
With a prevalence rate of 15-43 per 100,000, India is experiencing a surge, with cases projected to increase significantly by 2030. A significant portion (40-45%) of Indian cases are early-onset, occurring between ages 22 and 49, with an average onset age of roughly...
Long-Term Care: National infra for sr citizens
As per the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), conducted under the aegis of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 23.8 per cent of persons aged 60 years and above in the country suffer from at least one limitation in Activities of Daily Living (ADL),...
Trafigura wins $600 million nickel fraud lawsuit against businessman Gupta
Geneva-based Trafigura alleged Gupta was the mastermind of a fraudulent “Ponzi scheme” in which he and his companies agreed to provide high-quality 99.8% pure nickel but delivered low-value or even worthless materials instead. London:Trafigura won its London lawsuit...
IRDAI to come out with new regulations on industry’s commission structure soon:Seth
Ajay Seth, chairman, IRDAI ``We are working on the regulations pertaining to the new commission structure in the industry. There will not be any surprise element in it. We will soon put out a consultative paper on it and will like to have industry views before...
Budget-26-27:Allocation for PM-JAY raised 5.56% to ₹ 9,500 crore
Nirmala Sitharaman,Finance minister Allied Health Professional Institutes in 10 key disciplines will be set up and upgraded to create nearly one lakh skilled professionals over the next five years, through public and private sector participation. Additionally, a...
Budget 2026–27:Interest awarded by MACT to a natural person exempted from income tax
The tax holiday period on business income earned by a unit in International Financial Services Centre has been increased from 10 to 20 years (out of a block of 25 years. The FM also proposed to set up five hubs for medical tourism and a Rs 10,000-crore outlay for...
Eco Survey 2025-26: Rising lifestyle diseases due to nutrition gap
The survey noted that concerns of rising lifestyle diseases, rising burden of cancers, increasing antibiotic resistance, and falling general immunity levels have exacerbated as a consequence of nutritional deficiencies Dietary reforms should be treated as a public...
WHO sees low risk of Nipah virus spreading beyond India
"The WHO considers the risk of further spread of infection from these two cases is low," the agency told Reuters in an email on Friday, adding that India had the capacity to contain such outbreaks.There is no evidence yet of increased human to human transmission,''...
Economic Survey 2025-26:Towards a healthy India
Obesity is rising at an alarming rate and is today a major public health challenge in India. Driven by unhealthy diets, lifestyle changes, including sedentary lifestyles, increased consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), it is affecting people across all age...