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Relating Giloy to liver damage completely misleading:Ayush Ministry
”Apart from this, relating Giloy or TC to liver damage would be misleading and disastrous to the Traditional Medicine system of India as herb Guduchi or Giloy has been used in Ayurveda for long. The efficacy of TC in managing various disorders is well established,” it said.
India’s health minister quits as Modi readies cabinet reshuffle
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan quit, a source close to the minister said, paying the political price for the government’s struggles to cope with a devastating second wave of coronavirus infections. read more
Safety audits mandated at all stages of road development to reduce accidents, says Nitin Gadkari
The Minister said that his vision is to achieve 50 per cent reduction in road accident deaths and zero accidents and deaths by 2030. About 60 per cent deaths are of two-wheeler riders.”
Rural India sinks deeper into debt as Covid-19 pandemic wipes out work
The coronavirus and a lockdown aimed at stopping it last year saw millions of people thrown out of jobs in cities and towns and forced back to their villages, and ever higher levels of debt.
Interviews with 75 households in a cluster of eight villages in India’s most populous state showed household incomes have slumped nearly 75% on average. Almost two thirds of the households have taken on debt.
Rural unemployment rate, which used to hover around 6% before the pandemic, rose to 8.75% in June, according to the Mumbai-based Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).
India’s COVID death rate hit record in June after calls for better data
“The Delta variant is both the most contagious variant and among the most dangerous variants in terms of infection fatality rates,” said Christophe Z Guilmoto, a demographer at the French Institute of Research for Development in New Delhi, who has studied COVID-19 mortality in India. “It did play an increasing role at the end of India’s second wave, and this may explain why the daily count of deaths in India isn’t coming down as fast as we expected/hoped.”
Delhi govt launches financial assistance scheme for families of Covid victims
”Each family in which a death has occurred due to Covid will be provided an ex gratia of Rs 50,000.”
”We are launching a portal through which such people can apply for financial assistance. Our representatives will also visit such families and get applications filled up,” he added.
The chief minister said such representatives will not reject claims of families in case any document is missing and will only facilitate the process.
There is no income criterion to apply for financial assistance under the scheme.
73 districts reported over 10 pc Covid positivity rate in June 29-July 5 week: Govt
Addressing a press conference, Joint Secretary in the health ministry Lav Agarwal said these 73 districts include Arunachal Pradesh (18), Rajasthan (10), Manipur (9), Kerala (7), Meghalaya (6), Tripura (4), Sikkim (4), Odisha (3), Nagaland (3), Assam (2) and Mizoram (1).
Ayurveda practitioners to discuss devplt, adopting uniform treatment protocol for covid-19 in kids
Last month, the Ayush ministry released detailed guidelines to deal with COVID cases in children, stressing the need for preventive treatment (Prophylaxes) as the most effective approach to protect children from this deadly virus.
Twitter loses immunity over user-generated content in India
India’s IT ministry told the High Court in New Delhi that Twitter’s non-compliance amounted to a breach of the provisions of the IT Act, causing the U.S. firm to lose its immunity, according to the filing dated July 5. The filing came in a case filed by a Twitter user who wanted to complain about some allegedly defamatory tweets on the platform, and said the company was not complying with the new law that requires appointment of certain new executives.
Two-thirds of communicable infections animal borne, knowledge of zoonotic diseases important: Kerala Minister
She further said that besides the common zoonotic diseases, like leptospirosis, scrub typhus, monkey fever, Nipah, rabies, Japanese fever and West Nile fever, which are commonly reported in Kerala, COVID-19 also poses a threat to public health.