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Investors’ wealth plunges Rs 10.42 lakh crore in 7 trading sessions
Shrikant Chouhan, Head of Equity Research (Retail) at Kotak Securities Ltd, said weak Asian markets cues and worsening global macro economic indicators like higher inflation level, rising interest rates and volatile commodity prices are forcing investors to slash...
Centre sets eye to ensure universal health coverage
Through initiatives like the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY), which aims to develop tertiary healthcare capabilities in clinical treatment, medical research, and in teaching to far-flung areas in the country. It intends to address regional disparities...
Over 1 billion in 43 nations at risk amid cholera outbreaks, WHO says
Right now, 22 countries across the world are fighting outbreaks of the acute diarrhoeal infection caused by eating or drinking contaminated food or water. Cholera cases climbed in 2022, following years of falling numbers of cases, and the trend is expected to continue...
Nations step closer to global guides on pandemics, disease outbreaks:WHO
At the UN General Assembly’s first-of-its-kind science session, held in early February, epidemiologists and researchers had called for a global pandemic warning system. Suggestions included forging a new global digital collaboration comprising a network of researchers...
Eligible EPFO members can now apply for higher pension benefits till May 3, 2023
In November 2022, the Supreme Court had upheld Employees' Pension (Amendment) Scheme 2014. The EPS amendment of August 22, 2014 had raised the pensionable salary cap to Rs 15,000 a month from Rs 6,500 a month, and allowed members along with their employers to...
National Pension System: Investing for Retirement
An impending challenge employees or workers may face in India, is the risk of inadequate pension arrangements after retirement from work. As a fallout, individuals may either be required to put severe curbs on their post-retiral expenses or continue working beyond the...
Buffett’s Berkshire records annual operating profit despite inflation, rate pressures
Warren Buffett, chairman,Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire did spend $11.5 billion in the fourth quarter to buy the insurance company Alleghany. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway on Saturday reported its highest-ever annual operating profit, even as foreign currency...
Due to commercialisation and overburdened healthcare system, mistrust and suspicion on medical services becoming narratives: CJI
DY Chandrachud,Chief Justice of India The Chief Justice said, “We as a society need to counteract structural and policy constraint which prevent access to good healthcare in order to achieve healthcare justice”, while lamenting that growing socio-economic inequalities...
FPIs sell-off spree continues; withdraw Rs 2,300-cr from equities in Feb
This was also the worst outflow in the last seven months, data with the depositories showed Prior to that, they made a net investment of Rs 11,119 crore in December and Rs 36,238 crore in November Foreign investors have turned cautious and pulled out Rs 2,313 crore...
Some companies begin replacing human employees with ChatGPT
Companies are using ChatGPT to write codes, copywriting and content creation, customer support and preparing meeting summaries Companies that use ChatGPT said they saved money using the AI tool, with 48 per cent saved over $50,000 and 11 per cent saved over $100,000,...
IndiGo, Go First face P&W engine headwinds; over 50 planes on ground
"Like many in the industry, we are experiencing global supply chain challenges, which are limiting the availability of structural castings and other parts and we are working mitigation strategies with our supply base and expanding MRO (Maintenance, Repair and...
Earthquake in India’s Himalayas to be felt in Sri Lanka
If India experiences a quake of magnitude 8, it would be felt in Colombo and Jaffna, Athula Senaratne, a local university professor, told reporters Sri Lanka's capital Colombo and the northern capital of Jaffna are likely to feel the effect of any powerful earthquake...
Regular use of laxatives linked with increased risk of dementia: Study
“Constipation and laxative use are common among middle-aged and older adults,” said study author Feng Sha, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangdong, China “However, regular laxative use may change the microbiome of the gut, possibly affecting nerve signalling...
Nearly 60% of long Covid patients suffered organ damage a year later: Study
The research, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, focused on 536 long Covid patients who reported extreme breathlessness, cognitive dysfunction and poor health-related quality of life. Organ damage persisted in 59 per cent of long Covid patients...
‘More value to be discovered, NCLT has usurped the jurisdiction of the CoC’, RCap to NCLAT
Earlier this month, NCLAT had issued notices to Torrent Investments and other respondents on a petition filed by the lender of Reliance Capital seeking a second round of financial bids for the debt-ridden firm, currently going through insolvency resolution process The...
India asks IMF, FSB to prepare technical paper on regulating crypto
Despite the rapid evolution of the crypto universe, there is no comprehensive global policy framework for crypto assets. Given the concerns over greater interconnectedness between crypto assets and the traditional financial sector as well as the complexity and...
Getting good sleep could add years to your life: Harvard Research
"We saw a clear dose-response relationship, so the more beneficial factors someone has in terms of having a higher quality of sleep, they also have a stepwise lowering of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality," said Frank Qian, MD, an internal medicine resident...
Feds seek to limit telehealth prescriptions for some drugs
Drug Enforcement Administration said late Friday it plans to reinstate once longstanding federal requirements for powerful drugs that were waived once COVID-19 hit, enabling doctors to write millions of prescriptions for drugs such as OxyContin or Adderall without...