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Passenger vehicle retail sales increase 39 pc in August: FADA
Commercial vehicle sales surged 98 per cent to 53,150 units last month against 26,851 units in August last year.
Blue sky thinking: 5 things to know about air pollution
Air pollution is also harming also harms our natural environment. It decreases the oxygen supply in our oceans, makes it harder for plants to grow, and contributes to climate change.Around 90 per cent of people go through their daily lives breathing harmful polluted air, which has been described by the United Nations as the most important health issue of our time. To mark the first International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, on 7 September, UN News explains how bad it is and what is being done to tackle it.
Automakers expect better festive season even as chip shortage lingers on
“While we compare with last year, it looks positive this year. But when you compare it to the peak of 2017-19, then we are still 22-23 per cent off that peak so I think we would have to be very careful in saying whether the market situation is better. It looks better than last year but when you compare it with the peak in 2017-19, we are way off, Srivastava noted.
Govt determined to vaccinate everyone by December this year: Union Minister Kishan Reddy
”We want to reach out to the last person to be vaccinated in the country, in the most remotest part by December this year. It is also a matter of great pride that India was one of the two countries which invented a vaccine for COVID, besides USA, this raised the stature of Indian scientists and the country in the world,” the release quoted Kishan Reddy as saying.
”As many as 153 countries have sought our vaccines and some even paid the respective companies advance amount, but the government placed an embargo on export till people in our country are vaccinated,” he said.
VW CEO says smart cars, not e-cars, are ‘gamechanger’
“Autonomous driving is really going to change our industry like nothing else before,” Diess said in Munich ahead of the official opening of the IAA car show, adding the shift towards electrified cars was “kind of easy” in comparison.
One in every two families paid over Rs 750 for COVID antibody test in India: Survey
According to the survey, 29 per cent of the respondents said they paid Rs 1,000 or more during their COVID antibody test. Further, 21 per cent said they paid between Rs 750-1000 and 14 per cent said they paid between Rs 500-750.
While, 24 per cent said they paid Rs 250-500 and 7 per cent said they paid less than Rs 250. 5 per cent respondents did not say anything. “On an aggregate basis, 50 per cent of citizens who got a COVID antibody test done paid over Rs 750 for it,” said LocalCircles release.
Govt appoints SL Tripathy as CMD of United India Insurance
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the proposal of the Department of Financial Services for appointment of S.L. Tripathy as CMD of UII till Feb 2024,” said an order by the ACC, headed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
OneWeb signs unveils insurance programme for its satellites
Marsh arranged a multi-launch insurance programme covering physical loss or damage to the remaining GEN 1 satellites and launch vehicles with a global panel of leading specialist insurers. The insurance programme underpins the next stage in the development of OneWeb’s global communications capabilities.
Covid-19 jabs effective at reducing severe illness, hospitalisation: Lancet
They found that of more than 1.2 million adults who received at least one dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca, or Moderna vaccine, fewer than 0.5 per cent reported a breakthrough infection over 14 days after their first dose.
People most vulnerable to a breakthrough infection after their first vaccine dose included frail older adults, 60 years and older, and those living with underlying conditions such as obesity, heart disease, kidney disease, and lung disease, they said.
After dropping below one, Covid R-value rises sharply to 1.17 in second half of August
When the second wave swept through the country between March to May, the R-value was 1.37 (between March 9 to April 21). From May 15-June 26, the R-value stood at 0.78. However, it slowly started increasing — it was 0.88 from June 20-July 7, 0.95 from July 3-22, 0.96 from July 24-27. It breached the value of 1.03 for the first time after the second wave during July 27-31. However, since then it has slowly started to decline.