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India bans imports from Pakistan amid tension over tourist killings
India's Directorate General of Foreign Trade in a notification said...
UK-India investment treaty lets companies sue government
The Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism is aimed at...
Congress will ‘compel’ Centre to implement old pension scheme in entire country Rajasthan CM Gehlot
On April 6, the Union Finance Ministry set up a committee under Finance Secretary T V Somanathan to review the pension system for government employees. The committee would suggest whether in the light of the existing framework and structure of the National Pension...
Rights of consumers to safe internet can never be compromised: Min Chandrasekhar on accountability of Big Tech
Rajeev Chandrasekhar,Minister of Information Technology ''…it is a commitment that we have to the people of India…1.2 billion Indians who are going to use the Indian internet, that we will keep the internet open for them. We will deliver safety and trust on the...
Non-communicable diseases bigger issue than Covid pandemic: Apollo JMD
"Non-communicable disease is a larger pandemic than Covid. We must protect against cancer, cardiovascular, nephro, neuro problems," Apollo Hospitals Joint Managing Director Sangita Reddynoted Spread of non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart...
Climate change will speed up inflation in next decade, says ECB
Climate change poses risks to price stability by having an upward impact on inflation,” said the researchers Maximilian Kotz, Friderike Kuik, Eliza Lis and Christiane Nickel. That would “place global incomes under pressure from rising prices and could impact inflation...
PM asks states, districts to develop long-term vision to make India developed nation by 2047
Prime Minister Narendra Modi NITI Aayog’s eighth Governing Council meeting deliberated on several issues including, health, skill development, women empowerment and infrastructure development, with an aim to make India a developed nation by 2047 New Delhi: Prime...
Anti-tobacco warnings for OTT programmes soon, health ministry to amend rules
According to the proposed amendments to the Rules, the display of tobacco products or their use in online curated content will not be extended to the display of brands of cigarettes or other tobacco products. New Delhi: OTT platforms may soon be mandated to display...
UN says U.S. concerns have led to insurers quitting climate alliance
Reinsurer Swiss Re on Monday joined Munich Re, Zurich Insurance, and Hannover Re in exiting the Net Zero Insurance Alliance amid growing pressure in the U.S., where some Republican politicians say these alliances could be breaking antitrust rules The United Nations...
Covid kills one person every four minutes as vaccination rates fall
A key question is how to handle a virus that’s become less threatening to most but remains wildly dangerous to a slice of the population. That slice is much bigger than many realize: Covid is still a leading killer, the third-biggest in the US last year behind heart...
How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics
A new pact is a priority for WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who called it a “generational commitment that we will not go back to the old cycle of panic and neglect” at the U.N. agency’s annual assembly. It seeks to shore up the world’s defences against new...
Vaping ban violations: Centre issues public notice for stricter implementation of Act
Binoy Mathew, Manager, Voluntary Health Association of India, said, "Despite a ban on electronic cigarettes by the government of India in 2019, they are easily available in tobacco shops and online and are sold to children below 18 years of age". New DelhI: With...