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10 killed in fire at COVID care facility in India
“We have recovered seven bodies. The hotel was taken by a private hospital to treat COVID-19 patients. The fire broke out in the early hours. Rescue operations are on,” the official said
Record 64,399 new COVID cases, 861 deaths
There are 6,28,747 active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), comprising 29.20 per cent of the total caseload in the country. The total coronavirus cases have mounted to 21,53,010
This is the third consecutive day that the COVID-19 cases have increased by more than 60,000. India had crossed the 20-lakh mark on Friday.
DGCA,airport authority ignored warnings on Kozhikode table top runway
The runway at Kozhikode, where the latest crash took place, doesn’t have an adequate safety mechanism, especially in wet conditions with a tailwind, a member of the aviation regulator’s Civil Aviation Safety Advisory Council wrote in a letter to top bureaucrats in 2011, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg News.
A ground arrestor system, similar to those maintained at Air Force bases, should be installed at table top airports to bring any skidding aircraft to a halt, an investigation report into the 2010 crash of another Air India Express jet recommended.
PM Modi launches financing facility worth Rs 1 lakh crore under Agriculture Infrastructure Fund
Already, 11 of the 12 public sector banks have signed memorandum of agreement with the Agriculture Ministry.
Under the fund, about 3 per cent interest subvention and credit guarantee of up to Rs 2 crore will be provided to the beneficiaries to increase the viability of the projects.
COVID-19 impact: Major ports’ cargo handling drops 18% to 193 MT in April-July
India has 12 major ports under the control of the central government — Deendayal (erstwhile Kandla), Mumbai, JNPT, Mormugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Chennai, Kamarajar (earlier Ennore), V O Chidambarnar, Visakhapatnam, Paradip and Kolkata (including Haldia).
These ports handle about 61 percent of the country’s total cargo traffic. These ports handled 705MT of cargo last fiscal.
IMA says nearly 200 doctors in India have succumbed to Covid-19
“As per the latest data collected by the IMA, our nation has lost 196 doctors, out of which 170 of them are above the age of 50 years, with general practitioners attributing to around 40 per cent of it,” the IMA said expressing concerns over the safety of doctors losing their lives in the fight against the Covid-19 crisis.
While an increasing number of doctors are getting infected and losing their lives every day, substantial number of them have been found to be general practitioners.
61,537 new COVID cases in India,933 deaths
The number of recoveries surged to 14,27,005 and the recovery rate rose to 68.32 per cent, according to ministry data.
India attracts $22 billion FDI during COVID-19: Amitabh Kant
The Niti Aayog CEO said that if India wants to transform then it needs a programme like aspirational district programme.
Aspirational districts programme, launched in January 2018, aims to transform 112 districts that have shown relatively lesser progress in key social areas and have emerged as pockets of under-development.
India suffers record jump of 62,538 new COVID-19 cases,tally crosses 2 million
India has been posting an average of around 50,000 new cases a day since mid-June, but experts say its testing rate at 16,035 per million people is far too low.
Still, the government has taken some solace from the relatively low death rate, at about 2%, with 41,585 deaths so far, though that figure will be understated as only deaths of people who have been tested for the virus are counted.
Epidemiologists say the epidemic in India is likely to be months away from hitting its peak, which will put an already overburdened healthcare system under more strain.
AI Express plane overshoots runway at Kozhikode airport,broken into 2 pieces,17 dead
.There were 191 passengers, including crew members on board the flight and both the pilots along with 15 other persons have died and100 passengers have been injured.
Mumbai based state owned New India Assurance(NIA) is the primary insurer of Air India and the total cover for the airlines is heavily reinsured, upto almost 95 per cent, in the London market.
“There will be major hull claims as the aircraft is completely damaged. There will be also claims on account of the death of two pilots and and other passengers ,” said insurnace industry sources.