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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarInitiative to deal with medical emergencies in far-flung Andaman and Nicobar island
The 'Swasthya-Doot' project, a community based volunteer programme, was taken up after Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM), Great Nicobar, Nitin Shakya, was woken up by a phone call in the early hours in October last year. The Nicobar district administration has launched...
How anti-vaccine misinformation hampers the conversation about genuine vaccine injuries
In very rare cases though, vaccines can be linked to serious injuries and even death. Vaccine injuries (also often called adverse events) are a difficult area in which to carry out research or advocacy, partly because anti-vaccine communities persistently muddy the...
Household wealth optimism collapses, global survey shows
Globally, only 40% agreed with the statement "my family and I will be better off in five years" compared to 50% a year before, with advanced economies most downbeat: the United States (36%), Britain (23%), Germany (15%) and Japan (9%). Barely two in five people...
Malfunctioning of system human error could have caused Nepal plane crash Experts
The aircraft involved is a 15 year old ATR 72-500 with registration number 9N-ANC and serial number 754. This aircraft was equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data. We are downloading high resolution data and verifying the data quality," flight tracking...
High arsenic concentration in groundwater of 18 districts in Bihar: Study
Now, arsenic as a possible risk factor for gallbladder cancer has been found in the study. Public health intervention in the form of removing arsenic from drinking water is the need of the hour in the endemic regions of Bihar and Assam. Tackling arsenic pollution may...
Two more hotels lean towards each other in Joshimath, cracks widen at many places
Many houses were damaged in varying degrees in the land-subsidence areas while water from the aquifer was constantly flowing down with great force. Dehradun/Joshimath (U’khand): Two more hotels were dangerously leaning towards each other while wider cracks have...
China’s 2022 growth seen as its lowest in 40 years
Strict lockdowns, quarantines and compulsory mass testing prompted abrupt closures of manufacturing facilities and businesses in major hubs — like Zhengzhou, home of the world’s biggest iPhone factory — and sent reverberations across the global supply chain China’s...
FSIB recommends names of CEOs for BOB and BoI
Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB), the headhunter for directors of state-owned banks and financial institutions, on Saturday recommended elevation of Executive Director (ED) Debadatta Chand as managing director of Bank of Baroda Bureau recommended Union...
Demat accounts rise 34% to 10.8 cr in Dec on attractive returns from equity mkts
Increased financial savings, financial literacy and the growing popularity of trading amongst youths have been some other major factors contributing to the rise, Yes Securities' Shankar said Mumbai: The number of demat accounts rose to 10.8 crore in December 2022, a...
Domestic automobile industry scaling up efforts to enhance localisation of electric components
With growth in consumption of electric vehicles, the industry is witnessing fast transformation of the auto components sector to be an integral part of the electric vehicle manufacturing supply chain New Delhi: The domestic automobile industry is scaling up efforts to...
Entire country will be covered by doppler weather radar network by 2025: Union minister Jitendra Singh
Union minister Jitendra Singh Addressing the 148th foundation day of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the minister said disaster-related mortality has dropped to single digit with improvement in forecast New Delhi: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday...
I belong to middle class, understand their pressures, says Sitharaman days before Budget
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman The minister assured them that the government can do more for the middle class as its population is growing and it has become sizeable now New Delhi: Ahead of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on...
68 killed in Yeti Airline plane crash in Nepal; fate of 5 Indians not known
Yeti Airlines' 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am and crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport minutes before landing, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal...
Covid cases in China touch 900 million,60,000 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals
A top Chinese epidemiologist has also warned that cases will surge in rural China over the lunar new year The peak of China's Covid wave is expected to last two to three months, added Zeng Guang, ex-head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control Some 900 million...
Banks allowed to use face recognition, iris scan for transactions: Reports
The verification is not mandatory and is intended for cases where another government identification card used for tax purposes, the Permanent Account Number (PAN) card, is not shared with banks. New Delhi: The Indian government is allowing banks to verify individual...
U.S. FDA, CDC see early signal of Pfizer bivalent COVID shot’s link to stroke in people 65 and older
Investigation of the signal raised a question of whether people 65 and older who received the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent shot were more likely to have an ischemic stroke, a loss of blood flow in the brain, in the 21 days following vaccination compared with days 22-44...
Torrent stalls Reliance Capital Resolution, COC approves 90 days extension to complete resolution process
In the hearing on Thursday, January 12, senior counsel Kapil Sibal appearing for RCAP's COC informed the court that the bid submitted by Torrent is non-compliant. Mumbai:The Committee of Creditors (COC) of Reliance Capital has approved the extension of 90 days (from...
Gehlot reiterates suggestion to implement Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme across country
''Social security should be compulsory. It is the responsibility of the government to look after the needy families,'' he said. Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday reiterated that the state government's Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme should...