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Miller establishes new M&A and Strategic Solutions Team
The team will sit within Miller’s Professional & Financial...
Govt wants insurance payouts to replace its compensation in managing natural disasters: DFS Secy
L to-R-Hitesh Kotak, Chief Executive, Japan, India, Korea, and...
Funds for ABDM implementation to be given on performance of states, UTs in recording data: NHA
R S Sharma, CEO, NHA This performance-based fund allocation will help in structured implementation of ABDM at the state and UT level, with verified entries strengthening the key national registries being built under the scheme, an NHA statement said R S Sharma, CEO,...
Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
The update came after the tech sector - which counts India as its top source of skilled foreign workers - received a wake-up call in June 2020 when California's employment regulator sued Cisco Systems on behalf of a low-caste engineer who accused two higher-caste...
PM may announce ‘Heal in India’, ‘Heal by India’ projects on I-Day: Report
Inclusion of the Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus vaccine (qHPV) against cervical cancer in the National Immunisation Programme and the expansion of the National Health Mission under a new name 'PM Samagra Swasthya Mission' may also figure in Modi's speech from the...
Avoid large gatherings while celebrating I-Day in view of Covid cases: Centre to States
A new Omicron sub-variant has been detected in the majority of samples taken from Covid patients in Delhi as part of a study at the LNJP Hospital All 230 swab samples collected from Mumbai in June-July were found to have been infected by Omicron sub-variants of...
Biden admin announces $3 billion in FEMA climate resilience funding
The White House said in April that the upper range of climate change’s hit to the U.S. budget by the end of the century could total a 7.1% annual revenue loss, equal to $2 trillion a year in today’s dollars The Biden administration on Friday announced it is putting...
India must implement global best health practices after considering local needs: Rajesh Bhushan
Rajesh Bhushan,Union Health Secretary National Medical Library's Electronic Resources in Medicine (NML-ERMED) Consortium is the flagship electronic resources consortium by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and the health ministry, wherein access to 228...
Chinese technology in ‘Internet of Things’ poses new threat to West: Reports
The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved from niche industrial applications to being ubiquitous in homes, offices and some vehicles. These technologies are great to help in our day-to-day life but it turns out to be data collectors which can be used by a hostile state...
Assam govt planning universal health insurance: Himanta
Himanta Biswa Sarma,Chief Minister,Assam “We are planning to come up with universal health insurance through Ayushman Assam for those left out of Ayushman Bharat. The scheme will cover senior citizens, journalists, people without NFSS ration cards, etc.” Assam Chief...
India’s annual green finance is just one-fourth of its needs, finds study
The report estimates that for India to achieve its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris agreement, the country requires approximately Rs 162.5 lakh crore (USD 2.5 trillion) from 2015 to 2030, or roughly Rs 11 lakh crore (USD 170 billion) per...
Wage Revision: PSU general insurance industry unions stick to their demand of pay parity with LIC
``Pay scales offered to us as on 01st August 2017 with loading factor of 10 per cent put us in most disadvantage when compared to those granted to LICI and ECGC,’’ said unions in their letter to Suchita Gupta, chairperson of GIPSA, the official coordinating agency...