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Insurers eye tax benefits, incentives in Union Budget
On Budget expectations, Anup Rau, Managing Director and Chief...
AB PM-JAY: Rs1.13 lakh cr spent, 8.19 crore hospital admissions recorded, says Nadda
JP Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare &...
Covid can be said to have become endemic only after 4 weeks of consistently low cases: Virologist
He also said the endemic phase of COVID-19 is expected to last many months and it is '' most unlikely'' that another variant with higher transmissibility than Omicron and greater virulence than Delta will emerge The third wave of COVID-19 in India has been plateauing....
US Judge blocks Biden administration order on climate risks
The “social cost of greenhouse gases” estimate is used in rule-making and permitting processes to estimate economic damages associated with a rise in greenhouse gas emissions. Those could include things like impacts to agricultural productivity or property damage from...
UN to finalise science report on how warming hits home hard
Without getting into specifics, report co-chair Hans-Otto Poertner said the science is clear that there are limits — including temperature limits — to what key ecosystems, species and humans can withstand. And in some places, warming is near those limits and in a few...
LIC IPO: Market crash makes India’s biggest listing a tough task
India will need bulky commitments from anchor investors, who will raise about a third of the total money. A further 35% -- or Rs 21,000 crore, based on the estimated valuation -- will be sold to millions of retail investors. That’s a challenging task To overcome a...
India bans 54 more Chinese apps citing security concerns
The apps banned by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology include those belonging to large China tech firms such as Tencent, Alibaba and NetEase, and are re-branded versions of apps already banned by India in 2020, the people said asking not to be...
What coronavirus has in store for the world next
The crisis isn’t over until it’s over everywhere. The effects will continue to reverberate through wealthier nations — disrupting supply chains, travel plans and health care — as the coronavirus largely dogs under-vaccinated developing countries over the coming...
Switzerland to vote on becoming first nation to ban animal testing
Campaigners who want to end all experiments on mice, rats and other animals gathered enough signatures to stage the vote under the Swiss system of direct democracy, meeting strong opposition from the country's huge pharmaceutical sector Voters in Switzerland will...
NGT junks plea seeking permission to use 10-year-old diesel vehicle in Delhi-NCR
The NGT had earlier dismissed the Centre's plea seeking modification of its order banning 10-year-old diesel vehicles in the Delhi-NCR It had noted that emissions from diesel vehicles are carcinogenic in nature and one diesel vehicle causes pollution equivalent to 24...
Covid-19 pandemic: Era of restrictions is fast coming to an end
Expanding home-testing, improving ventilation in public buildings, increasing efforts to track mutations and developing better vaccines and drugs that can work against a broad range of variants and other diseases are all part of the toolkit. Soumya Swaminathan, chief...
Tesla manufacturing in China and selling in India not digestible: Gadkari
Nitin Gadkari,Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Stressing that Musk has to manufacture here first in order to roll out Tesla cars on the roads, the Minister said: "Now his (Musk's) interest is to manufacture the Tesla car in China and make it sell in...