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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarIndia becoming destination country for healthy food, says Tomar at G-20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting
“The Government of India has emphasised on re-introducing traditional food items including millet, other nutritious cereals, fruits and vegetables, fish, dairy and organic products in the diet of the people. Their production has been phenomenal in India in recent years and India is becoming a destination country for healthy food items,” said Tomar during the second day’s session of the G-20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting.
C-DOT developing tech to tap all media for broadcasting disaster alerts
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) is developing the system for National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and expects it to be ready in 18 months, CDOT chairman and executive director Rajkumar Upadhyay told PTI.
”We are developing a pan-India integrated alert system which can send out alerts across all mediums at one go in an emergency situation. It will be deployed by NDMA. Once the system is deployed, the department concerned will have to just mark the area on the map by pen and the alert will go across all mediums in that area in the local language,” Upadhyay said.
Study finds primary cause of current obesity epidemic
Centre convenes high-level meeting on Serotype-2 dengue cases in 11 states
Woman sues for right to freeze her eggs in Beijing
She is suing Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital at Capital Medical University, a public hospital that forbids her from freezing her eggs, citing national law. Xu’s victory could mark an important step for unmarried women in China who want to access public benefits. Unlike in the U.S., though, court judgments in China do not rely on precedence.
UK court rules under-16s can get puberty blocking drugs
Govt extends lower tax rate on COVID-19 drugs to year end
Almost 90% of people in India’s financial capital have COVID-19 antibodies: survey
COVID-19 booster dose not central theme at the moment: Government
ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said administering both doses is absolutely essential and there should be no breakage in that.
“We need to remember one thing very clearly that booster dose is not the central theme at the moment in the scientific discussion as well as in the public health domain. Getting the two doses remains the major priority,” Bhargava said.
Patient needs and insights drive new era of global kidney research, discovery, and personalised treatments
Kidney patients worldwide are demanding an end to outdated dialysis care, characterized by staggeringly high mortality rates, and greater access to new products and solutions aimed at detecting, preventing, and treating kidney diseases earlier and in ways that improve quality of life and decrease dependency and disease-related unemployment. They are also organizing and coordinating their policy and grassroots efforts in a sophisticated effort to advance more common sense regulatory and payment reforms that prioritize patient needs and fully support the timely entry of new, safe products into global consumer markets.
India reports 35,662 new COVID cases in last 24 hrs, over 55.07 Cr samples tested so far
EXPLAINER: Why World Bank is under fire over set of rankings
The report is important to many companies and investors around the world: They use the World Bank’s “Doing Business” report to help decide where to invest money, open manufacturing plants or sell products.
Eager to attract investment, countries around the world, especially developing economies, have sought to improve their rankings in the World Bank’s report.Sometimes, nations would pursue substantive policy changes — by, for example, making it easier for businesses to pay taxes, obtain loans or enforce contracts.
Tech giant Xiaomi patents earthquake monitoring mobile tech
The patent describes a system that is capable of reading/monitoring seismic activity from a mobile equipment. This technology would be used in detecting earthquakes, reports GizmoChina.
The ‘mobile device’ would transfer key data obtained to send it to an earthquake processing center.
The system would also permit the underlying processor to identify and predict earthquake events based on multiple readings, the report added.
India antitrust probe finds Google abused Android dominance, report shows
Alphabet Inc’s Google reduced “the ability and incentive of device manufacturers to develop and sell devices operating on alternative versions of Android,” says the June report by the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) investigations unit.
The U.S. tech giant told Reuters in a statement it looks forward to working with the CCI to “demonstrate how Android has led to more competition and innovation, not less.”
U’khand High Court seeks replies from Centre, state govt on virtual post-mortem
Biden asks world leaders to cut methane in climate fight
Biden made the remarks during a virtual meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF), a follow-up to an Earth Day meeting he hosted in April to unveil new U.S. greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets and press other countries to do more to curb theirs.
The United Kingdom heeded the call, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledging to be among the first signatories of the Global Methane Pledge to reduce emissions of the harmful gas.
Argentina, Indonesia, Italy and Mexico also joined the alliance, while Ghana and Iraq signaled interest in joining, according to a White House summary of the meeting, which noted those countries represent six of the top 15 methane emitters globally.
Indianisation of our country’s legal system is need of the hour, says CJI Ramana
“For parties to understand the implication of the judgment they are forced to spend more money. Courts need to be litigant-centric as they are the ultimate beneficiaries. The simplification of justice delivery should be our pressing concern. It is crucial to make justice delivery more transparent, accessible and effective,” he said.
AM Best upgrades GIC Re’s credit rating outlook to stable, co’s balance sheet strength remains strong
GIC Re,with a global premium of $6,481 billion in 2020. is the 10th largest non-life reinsurer in the world and third largest reinsurer in Asia after China Re and Korea Re. The business profile assessment of favourable reflects GIC Re’s position as a leading reinsurer in India, with an approximate 75% market share based on ceded domestic written premium. The company continues to have close relationships with direct insurers in India, and local regulations provide GIC Re with a competitive advantage in obtaining domestic reinsurance placements.
In addition, the company maintains a geographically diversified underwriting portfolio, with over 35% of business sourced outside of India in fiscal year 2021.