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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...
Experts say bird flu threat small despite Cambodian fatality
Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, normally spreads between sick poultry but can sometimes spread from poultry to humans. The recent detection of infections in a variety of mammals, including at a large mink farm in Spain, has raised concern among experts that...
Bhutan to implement “Health in all policies” strategy to ensure public well-being
``This is because at the end of the day, who are we designing the policy for? We are designing the policy for people, we are designing policies so that the people are healthy. If people are healthy, people are economically productive so there are many incentives to...
Exercise is more effective than medication in managing mental health: Study
"Physical activity is known to help improve mental health. Yet despite the evidence, it has not been widely adopted as a first-choice treatment, Our review shows that physical activity interventions can significantly reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in all...
Singapore witnesses lowest ever total fertility rate at 1.05
In view of the declining Total Fertility Rate(TFR) the government has decided to provide more support for the early stages of family formation, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Indranee Rajah. Rajah said the government will provide more support for...
Impact Guru Study: More than two lakh donors helped over 3,500 cancer patients fundraise for their treatment
- Over 900 blood cancer patients benefited through crowdfunding solutions in 2022, treatment cost for which is reported to fall approximately between Rs 5 lakh to Rs 15 lakh in private hospitals. Mumbai: A study conducted by ImpactGuru.com, India's leading medical...
Reliance General’s PBT at Rs 334 crore in 9FY23, wants capital infusion
Company has grown its investments assets at 20 per cent to Rs. 16,581 Crore for 9M FY23 as against Rs. 13,861 crore for the corresponding period 9M FY22 Mumbai: Profit before tax of Reliance General Insurance has grown to Rs 334 crore for 9M FY23 as against Rs 314...
IMF flags debt restructuring hurdles, says banning crypto should be an option
"We have to differentiate between central bank digital currencies that are backed by the state and stable coins, and crypto assets that are privately issued," Georgieva said. "There has to be very strong push for regulation… if regulation fails, if you're slow to do...
Jack Ma-backed Ant Group to reduce stake in Vijay Shekhar’s Paytm
The deliberations follow Ant affiliate Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s sale of its stake in Paytm, as the e-commerce giant pared back investments in India amid growing geopolitical tensions. Ant’s sale would be for technical and not political reasons, the people added...
Rising heat across parts of India raises alarm on another energy crunch
Temperatures have been as much as 11C above normal in some regions in the past week and prompted the India Meteorological Department to advise farmers to check wheat and other crops for signs of heat stress The unusually early onset of hotter weather — and forecasts...
Agriculture budget rises 5 times in 9 years to over Rs 1.25 lakh cr: PM Modi
The Prime Minister also highlighted that the Budget focuses on agri-tech startups and an accelerator fund too has been proposed to create new funding avenues for them He observed that the number of startups in the agriculture sector has increased to more than 3,000...
Sebi proposes changes to rules for REITs, InvITs
Coming out with a consultation paper on the subject, the markets regulator said the changes are being proposed keeping in mind the interest of unit holders and the structural vulnerabilities associated with absence of a sponsor for Real Estate Investment Trusts...
Most female blue collar employees in India confident about equal pay: Survey
Currently, the top four things which employers surveyed are doing are offering the same salary to male and female employees for the same job role, offering the same incentives to male and female employees, zero tolerance for sexual harassment and gender discrimination...
MFI portfolio jumps 26 pc in December quarter: Report
The micro credit portfolio for all the lenders combined together stood at Rs 2.56 lakh crore in the year-ago period, and Rs 3.04 lakh crore at the end of the preceding September quarter, according to data collected by Sa-Dhan, an association of impact finance...
India needs regulatory data protection to attract drug research: Novartis CEO
, Vasant Narasimhan,Chief Executive Officer,Novartis ''I think the next step is when you think about how we generate data and how protected that is in regulatory filings. India does not have regulatory data protection,'' he said replying to a query. Hyderabad: India...
China asks state-owned firms to phase out use of Big four auditing firms over data security
China is seeking to rein in the influence of the US-linked global audit firms and ensure the nation’s data security, as well as to bolster the local accounting industry, the people said. . Chinese authorities have urged state-owned firms to phase out using the four...
Shipping industry steps up calls to free seafarers still trapped by Russia’s war
In the weeks after the war began, some 2,000 crew members were caught in the crossfire on ships in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Safe corridors helped reduce that number in the months that followed. But the total remaining stands at an estimated 331 seafarers on...
New Zealand needs to rebuild for weather resilience, PM says
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said there had been a nine-fold increase in government spending in the 2021-22 fiscal year on helping farmers cope with floods, storms and drought. The number of weather events that require emergency road work more than doubled from an...