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Need to step up efforts to tackle climate change impact on agriculture, entire ecosystem: PM

Modi said, “Not only agriculture, climate change is a big challenge to the entire ecosystem. …Due to climate change, new types of pests, new diseases, epidemics are coming. Due to this, there is a big threat to the health of humans and livestock and crops are also being affected.?

Climate change impact is on fish production and animal health and output. As a result, farmers and fishermen have to bear the losses, he said

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National Consumer Court asks NIA to pay Rs 1 lakh health claim linked to alcohol consumption

 Clearly, nothing is mentioned in the policy relating to exclusion that treatment expenditure of any disease caused by use of alcohol or arising out of the use of alcohol will  not be admissible, said the National Consumer Court..
New India Assurance had rejected the claims saying that disease of of the patient (claimant) was due to the alcohol consumption that IS not covered in the company’s policy.

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PM Modi launches National Digital Mission to ensure health IDs for all

The key components of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission include a health ID for every citizen that will also work as their health account, to which personal health records can be linked and viewed with the help of a mobile application, a Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and Healthcare Facilities Registries (HFR) that will act as a repository of all healthcare providers across both modern and traditional systems of medicine.

This will ensure ease of doing business for doctors and hospitals and healthcare service providers.

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FM Sitharaman to launch 3-day Global FinTech Fest on Sept 28

Senior policy makers addressing the Fest are R S Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare; Shri Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; Dr Krishnamurthy V Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Ministry of Finance,T Rabi Sankar, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India; G Mahalingam, Whole Time Member, Securities and Exchange Board of India; Lord Mayor William Russell; City of London and Saurabh Garg, CEO, Unique Identification Authority of India.

Among the international regulatory and institutional speakers are: Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund; Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore; Dr Oliver Prill, CEO, Tide; Preeti Sinha, Executive Secretary, United Nations Capital Development Fund.

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India reports 26,041 new COVID-19 cases

At least 73 percent of Odisha’s population and over 93 percent of health workers have developed antibodies against SARS-CoV2, according to a recent serosurvey conducted by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

The survey was conducted in 12 of the state’s 30 districts between August 29 and September 15 by experts of ICMR’s Regional Medical Research (ICMR), Bhubaneswar with help of the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Odisha government.

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ICICI Gen sees fall in claims for heart ailments

According to the claims data of ICICI Lombard General Insurance ,females are seeing a sharper decline in the trend with 63.79% as compared to men with only 62.4%, in the year 2021-22 so far, as compared to 2019-20

All cities showcase a downward trend of claims arising from heart ailments. Mumbai has the highest number of claims for cardiovascular ailments in India, followed closely by National Capital Region NCR,

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Gulab impact: Heavy crop damages reported in Andhra Pradesh

“An ex gratia of Rs 5 lakhs to the families of the deceased and Rs 1,000 should be given to each family while returning home from relief camps,” said Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Agricultural and horticultural crops in over 1.63 lakh acres suffered damaged due to the heavy downpour in Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari and Krishna districts, Agriculture Minister K Kanna Babu said while citing preliminary estimates.

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