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IMD DG Mohapatra receives UN’s Sasakawa Award-2025 for Disaster Risk Reduction
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of Meteorology, India...
India is a strategic focus for World Business Council for Sustainable Development, says President CEO Peter Bakker
Peter Bakker. President and CEO, World Business Council for...
Green Bonds purchase by insurers to be treated as infrastructure investments: IRDAI
The regulator, in a circular dated Jan. 13, said the move was made with the objective of "de-concentration and diversification" of insurers' infrastructure portfolios as well as "from the perspective of participation in environmental, social and governance (ESG)...
India Inc may dole out 9.8 pc salary hike in 2023: Survey
To stay ahead, most businesses will need to transform their workforce to meet these demands. Further, 60 per cent of the organizations in the survey indicated that they have adopted some kind of a hybrid model. New Delhi: India Inc is likely to see an average salary...
Mutual funds’ SIP collection jumps 31 pc to Rs 1.5 lakh cr in 2022 on higher retail participation
The 42-player mutual fund industry mainly depends on SIPs for inflows, with equity mutual funds attracting Rs 1.6 lakh crore in 2022, way higher than Rs 96,700 crore seen in 2021 The consistent monthly increase in SIP flows have helped the industry to add Rs 2.2 lakh...
Centre to enhance disaster fund for Himachal Pradesh: CM Sukhu
Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu,Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh The Chief Minister said that these radars will be able to forecast heavy rain, thunderstorm and hailstorm within 100 kilometer radius in all directions, especially for short-range forecasting and will be helpful...
Centre earmarks Rs 2,000 crore to encourage states to scrap old vehicles
Incentive for scrapping of old vehicles has been added to the scheme and an amount of Rs 2,000 crore has been earmarked for scrapping state government vehicles which are older than 15 years, waiver of liabilities on old vehicles and providing tax concessions to...
India’s richest 1% own more than 40% of total wealth: Oxfam
Since the pandemic begun to Nov 2022, billionaires in India have seen their wealth surge by 121 per cent or Rs 3,608 crore per day in real terms, Oxfam said On the other hand, approximately 64 per cent of the total Rs 14.83 lakh crore in Goods and Services Tax (GST)...
India continuously striving to provide high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to everyone: Mandaviya
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya India's experience has reinforced the fact that capacity building of healthcare workers at various levels of governance, coupled with harnessing digital technology, is the way forward. With more than 1.3 million (13 lakh)...
Initiative to deal with medical emergencies in far-flung Andaman and Nicobar island
The 'Swasthya-Doot' project, a community based volunteer programme, was taken up after Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Great Nicobar, Nitin Shakya, was woken up by a phone call in the early hours in October last year. The Nicobar district administration has launched...
High arsenic concentration in groundwater of 18 districts in Bihar: Study
Now, arsenic as a possible risk factor for gallbladder cancer has been found in the study. Public health intervention in the form of removing arsenic from drinking water is the need of the hour in the endemic regions of Bihar and Assam. Tackling arsenic pollution may...
Two more hotels lean towards each other in Joshimath, cracks widen at many places
Many houses were damaged in varying degrees in the land-subsidence areas while water from the aquifer was constantly flowing down with great force. Dehradun/Joshimath (U’khand): Two more hotels were dangerously leaning towards each other while wider cracks have...