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PM Modi announces jabs for 15-18 age group, ‘precaution dose’ for Covid warriors
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Booster doses for frontline workers, as well as co-morbid patients aged 60 years and up after consultations from the doctor, will be given from January 10 Modi assured that soon the country will develop nasal vaccine and the world’s first...
Omicorn Check:Centre to deploy multi-disciplinary teams in 10 states with high covid cases and low vaccination
As per the document, these 10 states are Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Mizoram, Karnataka, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Punjab New Delhi: Multi-disciplinary central teams have been deployed in 10 states which are reporting either an increasing...
Booster dose ‘every 6 months for many years’ will be new norm: Expert
"I think booster shots, just like your annual influenza shot (are) something we just need to accept, it's (Covid-19) not going to be with us for many weeks and months, it's going to be with us for many years," Trent Twomey, National President of the Pharmacy Guild...
India will see Omicron surge but cases will be mild, vaccines will help: Angelique Coetzee
Dr Angelique Coetzee In the case of a vaccinated person or one who has had a history of being infected by COVID-19, it will spread to fewer people, she said, adding that unvaccinated people will potentially spread the virus 100 per cent ''Existing vaccines would...
Every 3rd informal worker registered on e-Shram, total enrollment cross 14 cr mark
About 51 per cent registered workers are farm labourers followed by 11 per cent in construction sector, 10 per cent in domestic & household workers and 6.5 per cent in the apparel segment Every third informal sector worker in India is now registered on e-Shram...
Omicron patients likely need up to 70% less hospital care, says report
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said its early findings are "encouraging" but the variant could still lead to large numbers of people in hospital, reports the BBC People getting infected with Omicron are 50 per cent to 70 per cent less likely to need hospital...
Modi tells states to beef up health facilities as Omicron cases rise
Prime Minister Narendra Modi While more than half of India's adult population is fully vaccinated, hundreds of millions are still at risk. Doctors warn that if an Omicron-fuelled third wave of infections hits the country, medical facilities could be over-run very...
Global M&A activity smashes all-time records to top $5 trillion in 2021
"Corporate balance sheets are incredibly healthy, sitting on $2 trillion of cash in the U.S. alone -- and access to capital remains widely-available at historically low costs," said Chris Roop who co-heads North America M&A at JPMorgan Technology and healthcare,...
Global airline carriers scrap more than 2,000 flights – FlightAware
FlightAware said there had been 448 cancellations within, into, or out of the United States so far on Friday Global airline carriers have canceled more than 2,000 flights so far on Friday, the FlightAware website said, in an indication of how COVID-19 is affecting...
Covid-19: Pressure mounts on India to begin boosters as Omicron spreads
India's drug regulator has so far been reluctant to authorize third doses or childhood vaccinations until local trial data has been produced. Government officials have been reiterating targets to fully inoculating the country’s adult population first India’s...
Of 183 Omicron cases analysed so far, 91% were fully vaccinated: Govt
India has so far reported 358 cases of the Omicron variant, of which 183 were analysed and 121 of them were found to have foreign travel history The government said the COVID-19 case positivity rate in Kerala and Mizoram is much higher than national average and a...
India’s monetary policy financially inclusive by design: RBI DG Patra
Financial inclusion appears to have gone up, with the level of the RBI's financial inclusion index rising from 49.9 in March 2019 to 53.1 in March 2020 and further to 53.9 in March 2021, Patra said at an event organized at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM),...
RBI extends card tokenisation deadline by 6 months till Jun-end
Under tokenisation services, a unique alternate code is generated to facilitate transactions through cards The RBI in September prohibited merchants from storing customer card details on their servers with effect from January 1, 2022, and mandated the adoption of CoF...
Third Covid-19 wave triggered by Omicorn in India to peak in February: IIT-K researchers
The research report used the data of the first and second waves in India, and the current rise in cases triggered by Omicron in various countries, to predict a possible third wave in the country Chennai: Researchers at IIT Kanpur (IIT-K) have predicted that a third...
Govt mandates telcos to keep call data, internet usage record for 2 years
"The licensee shall maintain all commercial records/call detail record/exchange detail record/IP detail record with record to the communications exchanged on the network. Such records shall be archived for at least two years for scrutiny by the licensor for security...
PNB MetLife to Plant 40,000 Trees
As part of its commitment to reduce carbon emission and Glow Green,’, PNB MetLife, one of India's leading private life insurance companies, has launched Glow Green, an initiative that aims to plant and nurture 40,000 trees in the next three years in eco-sensitive...
Hero Insurance Broking launches digitalised Employee Benefits offering for corporates
Hero Insurance Broking today announced the launch of its Employee Benefits Line of Business. It will provide customised insurance solutions to secure health and life of employees, at medium and large-sized corporates. Shefali Munjal, Executive Director, Hero...
LIC withholds dividend payment to govt in last 2 yrs, conserves Rs 6,300 cr capital
Sources at LIC said that the corporation has already accumulated Rs 6,300 crore of capital by not paying any dividend to the government in recent years and planning raise more though, at present it is not known how it will do it Mumbai: In a bid to conserve capital,...