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Early detection, effective treatment helped in bringing down Nipah mortality rate to 33 pc: Kerala Health Minister
The virus strain seen in Kerala was the Bangladesh variant, which generally has a high mortality rate, Kerala Health Minister Veena George said in a Facebook post Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Health Minister Veena George has said that the effective and timely...
RBI extends deadline for deposit,exchange of Rs 2000 banknotes till Oct 7
The central bank said that from October 8, Rs 2000 banknotes can continue to be exchanged by individuals at the 19 RBI Issue Offices up to a limit of Rs 20,000 at a time Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) on Saturday said that the deadline for deposit/exchange of...
Punjab to conduct study to find reasons behind rising infertility among couples
Pertinently, the state's appropriate authority has already granted registrations to the 106 institutions including 11 ART clinics (Level 1), 53 ART clinics (Level 2), 26 ART banks and 16 surrogacy clinics Chandigarh: Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Thursday...
China to waive security checks for some data exports
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it was considering waiving data export security assessments for activities such as international trade, academic cooperation, cross-border manufacturing and marketing that do not contain personal information or...
Weight-Loss drugs estimated to save airlines millions
Weight is a major concern for airlines because the more a plane weighs, the more fuel it burns. Fuel and labor are the two largest expenses for carriers, with fuel accounting for about 25%. Over the years airlines have used a variety of methods to reduce pounds on...
UK expert warns of pandemic worse than Covid in new book
“Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease,” the WHO said. Some public health experts believe the next Disease X will be zoonotic, meaning it will originate in wild...
Demat accounts grow 26% to 12.7 cr in Aug
Market experts said additions in dematerialized (demat) accounts are driven by attractive returns from equity markets and the ease of account opening process offered by brokers to their clients New Delhi: The number of demat accounts in India rose to 12.7 crore in...
New investor registrations on NSE hit 1 crore in last 8 months
''The eight crore unique PAN investors correspond approximately to around 5 crore unique households in India amounting to around 17 per cent households directly investing in the Indian stock market via the NSE's extensive nationwide network of trading members,'' it...
Singapore’s total population touch new high at 5.92 million: Government
Of the 5.92 million in the multi-national city-state, there were 4.15 million residents and 1.77 million non-residents, which comprise the foreign workforce, dependants and international students, reported Channel News Asia, citing the report By 2030, around one in...
EPFO extends deadline to upload details till Dec 31 for higher pension scheme
The deadline for uploading wage details which was ending on September 30 has been extended following representations from Employers & Employers' Associations, according to a labour ministry's release New Delhi: Retirement fund body EPFO has given three more months...
Young women more prone to risk of heart disease, say experts
In India, heart disease is responsible for approximately 25 per cent of all deaths, and women account for a significant portion of these deaths "While we previously believed women were protected from heart disease before menopause, this is no longer the case. Young...
Bupa to buy 20% in Indian health JV Niva Bupa from True North for Rs 2700 crore
True North is set to sell around 20 per cent of its stake in the Indian health insurance joint venture to its overseas partner Bupa, increasing latter's shareholding to approximately 63 per cent Mumbai: Indian private equity firm True North has agreed to sell 20 per...
HC asks Centre and AAP govt to streamline process of availing facilities under health welfare schemes
“The procedure required for availing free medical treatment must be streamlined, including various surgeries, as well as surgeries for implants/devices and to put in place a single-window mechanism with designated nodal officers at each hospital in Delhi,” a bench of...
Strategic shift: LIC increases its g-sec exposures
Presently, more than 70 per cent of LIC's investments from its non-participating fund of Rs 13.5 trillion ($162.39 billion) is invested in debt, they said. Most insurers keep debt levels at above 90 per cent in their non-participating book to cushion their solvency...
If new cars are safer, why are fatalities on the rise?
Roadway deaths in the U.S. are mounting despite government test data showing vehicles have been getting safer. While the number of all car-related fatalities has trended upward over the last decade, pedestrians and cyclists have seen the sharpest rise: over 60%...
IOC publishes new statement to protect athletes’ health
The consensus was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine and centered on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs), a syndrome affecting health and performance caused by a mismatch between calories eaten and burned during exercise, the IOC said Geneva:...
GIS, remote sensing key to battling vector-borne diseases during monsoon: experts
In Bengaluru, where dengue cases exceeded 4,000, a disease surveillance dashboard and mobile application named PRISM-H (Platform For Research, Integrated Surveillance and Management of Health) were launched by Karnataka government’s Department of Health and Family...
Exposure to air pollution linked to increased stroke risk within 5 days: Study
``Earlier,the correlation between short-term exposure to air pollution and stroke had been less clear. For our study, instead of looking at weeks or months of exposure, we looked at just five days and found a link between short-term exposure to air pollution and an...