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Manufacturers will have to assess the cybersecurity risks of their products and take appropriate procedures to fix problems for a period of five years or during the expected lifetime of the product. The companies will have to notify EU cybersecurity agency ENISA of...
Temp expected to go up by 2.2 degrees Celsius by 2050 in Assam
Assam is highly vulnerable to climate change due to its geographic proximity to the delta region and poor socio-economic conditions and it is reflected in the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of the local population to climate-induced extreme events such...
20 crash-prone zones identified as hit-and-run zones in 2021: Delhi Police
The report identified pedestrians as the most vulnerable road users and two-wheelers as the second most vulnerable categories constituting 41 per cent and 38 per cent of the total persons killed in road crashes, respectively in 2021 New Delhi; The Delhi Police...
Nirmala Sitharaman chairs 26th meeting of Financial Stability and Development Council
Nirmala Sitharaman,Union Finance Minister The council stressed on the early warning indicators for the economy and the preparedness to deal with them, improving the efficiency of the existing financial and credit information systems, and issues of governance and...
Climate Change intensified rain that fueled Pakistan’s deadly floods, heatwave
The death toll from the floods has risen to nearly 1,500 and the physical damage to the country may surpass $30 billion. More than a million homes are damaged and thousands of schools and health facilities were destroyed Climate change made peak rainfall last month in...
Hysterectomies in younger Indian women are influenced by insurance subsidies
The research found that women eligible for Aarogyasri health insurance (which reimbursed both public and private hospitals) were 2.8 percent more likely to undergo hysterectomy than women outside the programme – and also found that their odds of undergoing a...
Discrimination accounts for 100 pc employment inequality for women in rural India: Oxfam
There is also a significant gap in the earnings between men and women in the case of regular and self-employment in urban areas. The average monthly earning is Rs 15,996 for men and merely Rs 6,626 for women in urban areas in self-employment Discrimination accounts...
Govt drops antacid Ranitidine from National List of Essential Medicines 2022
"People keep on taking these drugs for long duration that can give some kind of side effects. I must say that these drugs should be used for a specified duration and only under prescription and treating physician or gastroenterologist," emphasized Dr. S Chatterjee,...
World Bank sees rising risk of global recession in 2023 amid rate hikes
"Global growth is slowing sharply, with further slowing likely as more countries fall into recession," World Bank President David Malpass said, adding his worry that these trends would persist, with devastating consequences for emerging market and developing economies...
Older adults with COVID-19 at 80 percent higher risk of Alzheimer’s: Study
''The factors that play into the development of Alzheimer's disease have been poorly understood, but two pieces considered important are prior infections, especially viral infections, and inflammation,'' said Pamela Davis, from the Case Western Reserve School of...
WHO issues Global guidance framework for responsible use of life sciences
Ministries of health are called upon to work with other ministries, including of science and technology, education, agriculture, environment and defense, along with other key stakeholders, to assess the risks posed by life sciences locally and nationally, and identify...
Several anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics to become more affordable
''Antinfectives such as Ivermectine, Meropenem, Cefuroxime, Amikacin, Bedaquiline, Delamanid, Itraconazole ABC Dolutegravir have been added to the NLM,'' Dr Y K Gupta, Vice Chairman of the Standing National Committee on Medicines, said New Delhi: Several anti-cancer...
Memory care facility for dementia patients starts in Gurgaon
''The one-of-its-kind facility, specially curated for seniors with ambulatory, neurological and ageing-related conditions provides comprehensive neuro-cognitive care and wellness for dementia including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other cognitive...
Fire at e-scooter showroom in kills 8 in Secunderabad deadliest such incident
India wants e-scooters and e-bikes to make up 80% of total two-wheeler sales by 2030, from about 2% now Hydearabad: A fire that started at an electric scooter showroom in Secunderabad killed at least eight people and injured 11, police said on Tuesday, in what is the...
Bengaluru braces for more heavy rain after short reprieve
The chaos over the past few days has raised questions over poor urban planning as the fast-growing city expanded over the years, and on climate change, which has also been blamed for disastrous floods in neighbouring Pakistan The city administration has identified...
69 pc people in India seeing severe effects of climate change: Survey
Twenty-two countries show a majority reporting that they have already been severely impacted by climate change, including nine countries where it exceeds two-thirds of all those surveyed: Mexico (75 per cent), Hungary (74 per cent), Turkey (74 per cent), Colombia (72...
New mobile banking virus prowling in Indian cyberspace
The lethality of the virus can be gauged from the fact that it can collect keystrokes, steal cookies, intercept multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens, take screenshots and record video from a webcam and can perform gestures like screen click, swipe etc. using...
Tapping Indian Surety Bonds Market
Vishwajeet Kadam The Indian Surety insurance business will assist in developing an alternative to bank guarantees for construction projects. This shall enable the efficient use of working capital and reduce the requirement of collateral to be provided by...