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Gadkari blames faulty DPRs, road designs for increasing road accidents in India
Nitin Gadkari ,Minister of Road Transport & Highways Gadkari...
Miller establishes new M&A and Strategic Solutions Team
The team will sit within Miller’s Professional & Financial...
No proposal for restoration of old pension scheme Karad
"The state governments of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand, have sent proposals to the central government/PFRDA to return the accumulated corpus of subscribers under NPS to respective state governments. No such proposal has been received from the state...
Canada prepares to expand assisted death amid debate
Starting in March, people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness will be able to access assisted death. Mental illness was excluded when the most recent medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law was passed in 2021 More than 30,000 Canadians have died with...
PM Modi to lay foundation stone for National Institute for One Health in Nagpur today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi With increased interaction between humans and animals -- domestic and wild, and influenced by climate change, human health can no longer be seen in isolation. More than half of all infections that people get can be spread by animals. In...
Lack of climate risk expertise and data seen as main obstacles for climate-related financial disclosure in India: WTW
Eighty-two percent of companies have had some form of Board-level discussion on the financial impact of climate change to their business. 73% have Board-level or CEO level oversight of climate risk. New Delhi; With Asia being one of the most vulnerable regions to...
Par panel stresses on urgent need to develop second-generation vaccines for COVID-19
The panel also observed that the provisions for Emergency Use Authorisation are absent in the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 and under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.It regretted that vaccines have been given EUA without any specific provision in the...
13.92 lakh cancer cases in India in 2020, projected to increase by 12.8 per cent: Health Minister Mandaviya
Under the Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN), financial assistance is provided to poor patients belonging to families living below the poverty line, suffering from major life-threatening diseases for medical treatment at any of the super specialty hospitals/institutes or...
Govt may seek a private sector chief to lead LIC – sources
"The government is planning to broaden the eligibility criteria for appointment of LIC CEO so that private sector candidates can apply," said one of the government officials, who declined to be identified as the discussions are private New Delhi: India aims to appoint...
Kerala govt releases revised action plan on climate change
Building disaster resilient infrastructure and strengthening institutional mechanisms for better disaster responses and raising incomes to bolster capabilities of individuals and communities to adapt to local impacts of climate change are important,'' said Kerala...
Sebi relaxes rules for govt for PSU disinvestment
Against this backdrop, Sebi has decided to dispense with the requirement of calculating 60 days' VWAMP for the determination of open offer price in case of disinvestment of PSU companies wherein it results in its change in control, either by way of direct acquisition...
Govt to allow foreign funds to own over 51% in IDBI Bank
The current guidelines of the Reserve Bank of India restrict foreign ownership in new private banks. The government and Life Insurance Corporation of India together hold 94.71% in IDBI Bank and are looking to sell 60.72%. New Delhi: The Indian government will allow a...