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South Korea jet crash puts fast-growing Jeju Air’s safety under scrutiny
Authorities have suggested a bird strike contributed to the...
Los Angeles fire to cause about $20 billion of insured losses, unlikely to trigger major losses for cat bonds
The fires sweeping across Los Angeles are now on track to cause...
Cyclonic storm ‘Jawad’ shows mercy, spares India’s east coast havoc
People of Odisha, already battered by cyclone 'Gulab' and 'Yaas' in the last one year, heaved a sigh of relief as the storm began ebbing away while still rolling over the sea. Bhubaneswar | Visakhapatnam | Kolkata Cyclonic storm 'Jawad' shows mercy, spares India's...
Maharashtra man tests positive for Omicron; India’s fourth case
Cases with the Omicron variant have already been detected in Karnataka and Gujarat Mumbai: A 33-year-old man from Thane district near Mumbai who had arrived at the Delhi airport from South Africa via Dubai before flying to the Maharashtra capital has tested positive...
Work underway to set up EV charging stations at 22,000 of 70,000 petrol pumps in country: Government
"Our ministry along with the ministries of petroleum and power are jointly working towards implementation of FAME India. We are working towards setting up charging stations in 22,000 of the total 70,000 petrol pumps across the country and work is on in this regard,"...
soil salinization poses riskS to global food security:FAO
New report on soil shows 55 percent of countries surveyed lack adequate capacities for soil analysis Some of the worst affected regions are in Central Asia, the Middle East, South America, North Africa and the Pacific. “Soil is the foundation of agriculture and the...
WHO Tells Asia-Pacific To Brace For Omicron
"People should not only rely on border measures," Takeshi Kasai, WHO regional director for the western Pacific, told a virtual media briefing. "What is most important is to prepare for these variants with potential high transmissibility. So far the information...
South Africa sees second highest Covid-19 infection in children under 5
"Now, at the start of this fourth wave, we see quite a sharp increase across all age groups, but particularly in the under-fives," said Dr Waasila Jassat of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) at a media briefing by the Health Ministry on Friday "As...
Omicron Spreads To 38 Nations, No Deaths Reported, Says WHO
The World Health Organization has warned it could take weeks to determine how infectious the variant is, whether it causes more severe illness and how effective treatments and vaccines are against it. "We're going to get the answers that everybody out there needs,"...
Omicron impact may be less severe due to vaccination, Delta exposure: Govt
From the list of FAQs, the ministry, answering to whether the existing vaccines work against the Omicron variant, said, "While, there is no evidence to suggest that existing vaccines do not work on Omicron, some of the mutations reported on spike gene may decrease the...
With 1.3 million annual road deaths, UN wants to halve number by 2030
With a notable funding gap in most countries, 90% of road deaths happen in low and middle-income countries. UN: Road accidents are still responsible for 1.3 million annual deaths and 50 million injuries all over the world, but the United Nations has a Global Plan to...
Raj govt increases amounts to be reimbursed under Chiranjeevi Swasthya Bima Yojana
Under the scheme, patients will now be able to get free treatment related to organ and tissue transplant surgery and its post-transplant medication, arthroscopy, general surgery related to gastrointestinal bleeding and various neurosurgeries, the statement said....