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The primary contributors to worsening the air quality are fossil fuel-powered infrastructural development, industries, transport, waste burning, and construction activity. Chronic exposure to air pollution increases the likelihood of asthma, low birth weight,...
No ‘moral policing’ if 2 adults staying together willingly by marriage or live-in relationship: MP HC
The HC in its order said, “No moral policing can be allowed in such matters where the two major persons are willing to stay together whether by way of marriage or in a live-in relationship, when the party to that arrangement is doing it willingly and not forced into...
Govt mandates storage of ISD, satphone, message details, others for 2 yrs
"The licensee shall maintain all commercial records, call data record, exchange detail record, IP detail record with regard to the communications exchanged on the network. Such records shall be archived for at least two years for scrutiny by the licensor for security...
Each dose of Covishield, Covaxin likely to be capped at Rs 275 after getting regular market approval
As of now, Covaxin is priced at Rs 1,200 per dose while Covishield costs Rs 780 in private facilities. The prices include Rs 150 service charge New Delhi: The price of Covishield and Covaxin, the Covid vaccines which are expected to soon get regular market approval...
COVID-19: NeoCov’s potential danger to humans requires further study, says WHO
"It is only one mutation away from becoming dangerous for humans," researchers said in a paper posted on preprint website bioRxiv, and not peer-reviewed yet. However, according to the WHO, the question of whether the NeoCov coronavirus, recently discovered in bats in...
Global gold demand rises 10% to 4,021 tonnes in 2021: WGC
"The demand for the yellow metal was mainly driven by Central bank buying during the fourth quarter of 2021, recovery in jewellery consumption, mainly in India and China," WGC Regional CEO, India, Somasundaram PR told PTI Mumbai: Global gold demand rose 10 per cent to...
EPFO onboards Air India, takes into fold 7,453 airline employees for social security benefits
These employees of Air India now will be entitled to benefits like they will receive extra 2 per cent employer's contributions in their provident fund (PF) accounts at 12 per cent of their wages New Delhi: fund body EPFO has onboarded Air India Ltd for social security...
Govt extends tenure of IPO-bound LIC’s chairman for 1 more year
M R Kumar, Chairman, LIC With the extension, M R Kumar will continue as chairman of LIC till March 2023, the sources said. Besides, the government has also extended the tenure of one of the managing directors, Raj Kumar, for one year. New Delhi: The government has...
Union Budget 2022-23: Expectations on changes in income tax slabs and rates
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman In the Budget 2020-21, around 70 exemptions and deductions of different nature were removed. The finance minister had announced that the "remaining exemptions and deductions will be reviewed and rationalised in the coming years with...
FPIs pull out a whopping Rs 28,243 crore from Indian equities in Jan
With the latest pull out of funds from Indian markets, FPIs have become net sellers for fourth consecutive month ''With US Fed signalling that it will start hiking interest rates soon and shrink its bond holdings, FPIs went on a selling spree in the Indian equity...
China issues draft rules for fakes in cyberspace
The regulations provide for people to be protected from being impersonated without their consent by deepfakes - images that are virtually indistinguishable from the original, and easily used for manipulation or misinformation China's cyberspace regulator issued draft...
Families of crash victims ask US to reopen Boeing settlement
Last month, the families of more than a dozen passengers filed a motion in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, alleging that the Justice Department violated a 2004 victims’ rights law by not consulting with them before reaching the settlement, which shielded Boeing...
Musk’s bets on Tesla: human-like robots and self-driving cars
"I would be shocked if we do not achieve full self-driving safer than human this year. I would be shocked," Musk said, predicting full self-driving would become "the most important source of profitability for Tesla." "It's nutty good from a financial standpoint," he...
India adds over 2.34 lakh new COVID-19 cases, 893 deaths in last 24 hrs
The case fatality rate is 1.20 per cent. In the last 24 hours, 16,15,993 tests were conducted for COVID-19 New Delhi: India has logged 2,34,281 new COVID-19 cases and 893 deaths in the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday. There was...
Two years on, India’s battle with COVID-19, its variants continues with no end in sight
Till now, India has reported 4,10,92,522 cases and 4,94,091 fatalities due to COVID-19 and its variants New Delhi: Amid the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, India has completed two years since the first coronavirus case was reported in the country and during this...
Indian Railway’s 695 hospitals, health centres across country integrated with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
"Hospital Management Information System (HMIS)" in all the 695 Railway Hospitals and Health Centres across the country which has proved to be a game-changer for the Railway's health system New Delhi:A total of 695 hospitals and health centres of the Indian Railway...
India reports over 2.35 lakh COVID-19 cases, 871 fatalities
The cumulative number of anti-Covid vaccine doses administered in the country so far has crossed 165.04 crore The daily positivity rate was recorded at 13.39 percent, while the weekly positivity rate was 16.89 per cent, according to the health ministry New Delhi: With...
MFSL’s PBT at Rs 236 crore in 9MFY22
The consolidated profit before tax (PBT) in 9MFY22 stood at Rs 236 crore, lower as against previous year primarily due to COVID-19-related provision in 9MFY22 and one-off items in the same period last year New Delhi: Max Financial Services Limited (MFSL), with Max...