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NDRF developing app, national plan to bring down number of drowning deaths, pegged at 38k a year
NDRF Director General Atul Karwal said that every year, as per the NCRB data, about 38,000 drowning deaths are reported in the country. This is more than 100 deaths each day. We need to find ways to deal with this situation in the earnest New Delhi: Drowning accounts...
Health ministry urges doctors to make it mandatory to mention reason for prescribing Antibiotics
Director General of Health Services Dr Atul Goel has also appealed to all pharmacists to strictly implement schedule H and H1 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules and stop over-the-counter sale of antibiotics and sell them only on the prescription of a qualified doctor...
HC issues summons to TATA SIA Airlines on minor’s plea for Rs 2.5 cr damages for burns
The girl, aged 10, and her parents have claimed damages of Rs 2.68 crore along with medical expenses incurred by them in Frankfurt, Germany and other consequential reliefs arising from the incident that occurred on August 11, 2023 on the flight from Delhi to Frankfurt...
India saw 15% spike with 2,138 weekly cyberattacks per organisation in 2023: Report
According to the cybersecurity company Check Point Research (CPR), India emerged as the second most targeted nation, trailing only behind Taiwan's 3,050 incidents New Delhi: India has recorded a spike of 15 per cent in cyberattacks within APAC (Asia-Pacific), with...
Poverty, chronic inflammation together triple cancer death risk: Study
Poverty has been documented to individually heighten the risk of mental illness, heart disease, hypertension, and stroke, in addition to higher mortality and lower life expectancy The combined effect of poverty and chronic inflammation could more than double the risk...
COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1: India logs 1,226 cases, highest from K’taka, Andhra Pradesh
Data compiled by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) showed that 17 states and UTs have detected the presence of the variant New Delhi: A total of 1,226 cases of COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 have been reported in the country so far with Karnataka and...
Half- day holiday declared for PSU insurers on Jan 22
Public sector banks, insurance companies, financial institutions and regional rural banks will remain closed for half day on January 22 due to the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya. Earlier in the day, the Department of Personnel and Training issued an order...
Russia allocates another $1.23 bln to company buying planes from Western lessors
Russia has allocated an additional 107.7 billion roubles ($1.23 billion) from its rainy day fund to a state company that has been purchasing aircraft from foreign lessors, the finance ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said it had purchased bonds of NLK-Finance,...
FB, Insta collect all the data they can: Report
a US judge has ruled that Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg must participate in a deposition as part of an ongoing lawsuit in Texas concerning the company's face recognition technology San Francisco: Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram are the two most...
Sensex crashes 1,628 points, Domestic equities plunge 2%
HCL Technologies, SBI Life Insurance, Infosys, LTIMindtree, and TCS were the top gainers on the Nifty, while the biggest losers were HDFC Bank, Tata Steel, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Axis Bank, and Hindalco Industries. Mumbai: The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex tanked 1,628...
Innovation is key for achieving Insurance for all by 2047 : LIC Chief
Siddharth Mohanty, chairman, Life Insurance Corporation In the age of high competition for the business in the industry, Mohanty, however,emphasised that insurance companies also need to prioritize purpose before profit and should focus on social consciousness rather...
Miller appoints Shaun Sinniah as Head of Reinsurance and Capital
Miller, the leading independent specialist (re)insurance broker today announce the appointment of Shaun Sinniah as Head of Reinsurance and Capital, as the firm builds out its reinsurance offering and international presence. Shaun will be based in London.Shaun was...
ACKO appoints Mallesh Bommanahal as Chief Data Scientist
ACKO has announced the appointment of Dr Mallesh Bommanahal as a chief data scientist. An expert in the world of artificial intelligence, Mallesh has 16 years exposure in the insurance and healthcare industries. He is also the founder of i3systems.ai, widely known for...
France sees collapse in births to lowest since World War Two
The most common reasons people gave for not having more children were concerns about the economic, social and climatic outlook, cited by 30% of those polled. Some 28% said raising children cost too much PARIS: France saw the lowest number of births since World War Two...
Insurance cover under Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme likely to be doubled
The increase in coverage to Rs 10 lakh per family per year and increase in beneficiary base to 100 crore individuals will involve an additional allocation of Rs 12,076 crore per annum.The AB PMJAY crossed the milestone of generating 30 crore Ayushman cards on January...
Google’s new AI chatbot to converse with patients, make diagnosis like docs
"We trained and evaluated Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer(AMIE) along many dimensions that reflect quality in real-world clinical consultations from the perspective of both clinicians and patients," Alan Karthikesalingam and Vivek Natarajan, Research Leads,...
China’s population drops for 2nd year, raises long-term growth concerns
The National Bureau of Statistics said the total number of people in China dropped by 2.75 million to 1.409 billion in 2023, a faster decline than in 2022, which was the first since 1961 during the Great Famine of the Mao Zedong era Beijing: China's population fell...
Climate change may claim 14.5 mn lives by 2050: WEF
Flooding alone is estimated to cause 8.5 million deaths by 2050, posing "the highest acute risk of climate-induced mortality", according to the study. Droughts, as the second leading cause of climate-related mortality, are forecast to claim 3.2 million lives. Heat...