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Tata AIG General Insurance Company has introduced a faster process for online travel insurance claims. The customers can simply register their claim directly on the tataaig.com website, submit the relevant documents, and track its status, minimizing the need to engage...
Climate change may make India and the Indus Valley too hot for up to 2.2 billion: Study
Results of the study indicate that if global temperatures increase by 2 C above pre-industrial levels, the 2.2 billion residents of Pakistan and India’s Indus River Valley, the one billion people living in eastern China and the 800 million residents of sub-Saharan...
Stroke could cause nearly 10 million deaths annually by 2050: Lancet study
The report recommended establishing cost-effective surveillance systems for precise epidemiological stroke data to guide prevention and treatment Strokes, a highly preventable and treatable condition, could lead to nearly 10 million deaths annually by 2050, primarily...
Cyber insurance: Indian market set to witness exponential growth, Deloitte’s report
Indian cyber insurance market is valued at USD 50-60 million, maintaining a steady 27-30 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in the past three years Anand Venkatraman, Partner, Risk Advisory, Deloitte India, said, "Despite the current market fluctuations and...
California Governor signs bill expanding conservatorship law
The law is designed to make it easier for authorities to provide care to people with untreated mental illness or addictions to alcohol and drugs, many of whom are homeless. Local government said their hands are tied if a person refuses to receive help under existing...
netreach.co.in – One Stop Website for Sexual Healthcare in India
The primary objective of NETREACH is to accelerate the national HIV response in India by targeting the first 95 goals set by the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP). It runs with support from India HIV/AIDS Alliance and with guidance from the National AIDS Control...
Use of digital technology in mental health a force multiplier: Mandaviya
''Mental health is a universal human right. The use of technology in mental health care is a force multiplier. The Tele Manas Seva, launched last year on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, has counselled more than 3,50,000 people till date and currently provides...
Mental health should be recognised as basic right: Kerala CM
Pinarayi Vijayan,Chief Minister,Kerala It is not merely the absence of mental disorders but a positive state of mental and emotional well-being. This definition aligns with the broader conception of human rights as not only freedoms from harm but freedoms to lead a...
INSIGHT-Down syndrome families’ fight for access to Alzheimer’s trials, treatments
Down syndrome affects 400,000 people in the United States and more than 6 million globally. When Lianor da Cunha Hillerstrom of Lexington, Massachusetts, learned her now 9-year-old son Oskar had Down syndrome, she was concerned but not panicked. As a child, Lianor...
Losses from China disasters reach $42 billion in first nine months of 2023
The emergency management ministry unveiled the unprecedented toll wrought on the nation of 1.4 billion by calamities that ranged from sandstorms to rains that brought massive flooding and historic rainfall in Beijing, the capital BEIJING: China suffered direct...
80 per cent Indians with mental health issues don’t seek treatment, say doctors
'The treatment cost is quite high in the private sector while at government setups there is a lot of rush and people do not want to go through that inconvenience,'' said Asthana who was the chief coordinator of the mental health festival organised recently by Mental...
Modify insurance policies, hold awareness drives: NHRC advisory for welfare of people with mental illness
Insurance policies and schemes should include treatment for mental illnesses to increase the accessibility and affordability of mental health care. To boost accessibility to treatments for mental disorders for financially disadvantaged populations, it is necessary to...
Over 1 crore OPD tokens generated using ABHA-based scan and share service: National Health Authority
Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir have emerged as the top-performing states in the implementation of this digital OPD registration service, it said. The paperless service, launched in October last year under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM),...
Union Health Minister Mandaviya inaugurates ‘Centre for Brain and Mind’ in Bengaluru
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya ''The primary focus of the centre involves a comprehensive investigation into a large cohort of severely mentally ill patients including those diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
Ambani pips Adani to become richest Indian on Hurun list
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Pune-based Cyrus Poonawalla of vaccine maker Serum Institute of India has retained the position as the third wealthiest Indian, with a 36 per cent jump in the fortune at Rs 2.78 lakh crore, while Shiv Nadar of HCL...
IMF raises India’s GDP growth forecast marginally to 6.3 pc for FY24
'Growth in India is projected to remain strong, at 6.3 per cent in both 2023 and 2024, with an upward revision of 0.2 percentage point for 2023, reflecting stronger-than-expected consumption during April-June,'' the 'World Economic Outlook' said. China's growth...
RBI bars Bank of Baroda from more customers on bob World app
"This action is based on certain material supervisory concerns observed in the manner of onboarding of their customers onto this mobile application. Any further onboarding of customers of the bank on the 'bob World' application will be subject to rectification of the...
CCI plans market studies on impact of artificial intelligence on competition landscape
``We are looking at doing some market studies on that, so that we can understand the market better. We can look at whether there is any possibility of anti-competitive practices and if so, how they can be addressed. Whether we can even do a self-regulation. That is...