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Stating that in the current pandemic situation, the government has announced an ex-gratia cover of Rs 50 lakh for any frontline worker who contracted Covid 19 and succumbed to it under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package, the Guild said, “however, none of the pilots’ families who have succumbed to Covid having contracted the same while operating the Vande Bharat or Air Bubble flights have been so compensated.”
According to the Guild, major airlines in India are providing compensation to their pilots up to Rs 5 crore while some companies have fixed the insurance cover equivalent to the wages of what the employee would have earned till the date of his superannuation.
Flexible, agile vaccination strategy vital in saving lives in India, says Lancet report
The report noted that innovative measures currently being tried in India like establishing satellite vaccination centres closer to hamlets in rural settings and resident welfare associations in urban areas; converting community halls and using large parking spaces for drive-in vaccination; and using mobile vaccination facilities to cover populations that do not live within easy access of vaccination centres.
Heatwave scorches north India; flash floods render many homeless in Tripura
The northeastern state is being battered by torrential rains for the last 48 hours and besides power and road infrastructure, crops have also been damaged. Though there was some respite for the national capital, temperatures in Punjab and Haryana were recorded above 40 degrees Celsius. Churu in Rajasthan sizzled at 43.6 degrees Celsius, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while it was 43.5 degrees Celsius in Haryana’s Gurgaon, which falls in the Delhi-National Capital Region.
NPPA approves price rise of 50 per cent for carbamazepine, ranitidine, ibuprofen
To address the situation arising due to repeated price control, a one-time price increase of 50 per cent from the current ceiling price is being considered in public interest as an exceptional measure as advised by the Standing Committee on Affordable Medicines and Health Products (SCAMHP), NPPA said
Britain sets out vision for post-Brexit financial services
Final analysis of Covaxin efficacy out; vaccine 65.2 percent effective against Delta variant
Director-General of ICMR, Balram Bhargava said, ”I am delighted to note that Covaxin developed by ICMR and BBIL under an effective public private partnership, has demonstrated an overall efficacy of 77.8 percent in Indias largest COVID phase 3 clinical trial thus far.
He further said Covaxin will not only benefit the Indian citizens but would also immensely contribute to protecting the global community against the deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus.
European countries not supporting TRIPS waiver move to deal with COVID: Goyal
”We have tried in the WTO to promote waiver on TRIPS so that vaccines and essential medicines can be available to all in the world. “Sadly, the European countries, particularly, and many other developed countries are not supporting that move….Believe me, until all of us are vaccinated, until everybody in the world gets the benefit of modern technology, even the developed world will not be safe,” Union Minister Piyush Goyal said at a webinar of India Global Forum
Development bank climate finance spending hit $66 bln in 2020 – report
A total $38 billion, or 58%, of the total went to low and middle income countries, the 2020 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance said.
Additional finance committed by other sources alongside the development banks totalled $85 billion, while direct funding from private sources was $5.9 billion.
Boom, bust and bewildered: Bitcoin’s year so far
Wild price swings have been a defining feature of bitcoin throughout its near 13-year life. The first half of 2021 has been no different, despite hopes that greater liquidity in markets and stronger infrastructure would dampen swings.
“What we found out in the second quarter was that actually demand for bitcoin is price sensitive,” he said. “Some institutional investors started getting out of bitcoin in April … they thought bitcoin prices were too high relative to gold.”
Delta variant spread in US prompts reconsideration of precautions: Dr Fauci
“The Delta variant has the capability of spreading much more efficiently from person to person. It also can cause more severe disease. So there are two things about it that are troublesome,” said the top US COVID-19 expert.
Fauci further said that the good news is that COVID-19 vaccines have shown to be very effective against the strain and urged those who have yet to be vaccinated to do so.
Floods may be nearly as important as droughts for future carbon accounting
“These wet extremes have basically been ignored in this field and we’re showing that researchers need to rethink it when designing schemes for future carbon accounting,” said senior study author Alexandra Konings, an assistant professor of Earth system science in Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth). “Specific regions might be much more important for flood impacts than previously thought.”
India’s life insurance industry to reach $98.5bn in 2024, forecasts GlobalData
Some European countries to allow travellers from India inoculated with Covishield – Indian govt sources
WHO chief calls for vaccinating at least 10 per cent of population of every country by September
”Vast inequities in the access to vaccines are fuelling a two-track pandemic. While some countries have reached a high level of coverage, many others don’t have enough to vaccinate health workers, older people & other at-risk groups,” the World Health Organisation Director General said in a virtual address to India Global Forum.
World must prepare for future crises by setting up Global Fund for Social Protection:UN expert
According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the majority of the world’s population — 55 percent, or 4 billion people — lacks any form of social protection. Another 16 percent, or 1.2 billion people, enjoy only partial protection. Only 35 percent of children, approximately one in three, benefit from child allowances that would ensure they receive childcare, nutrition and education.
Study links Black Carbon with premature deaths, may help better estimate pollution mortality burden
Most pollution-based epidemiological studies essentially relate exposure to the concentration of particulate matters (PM-10 and/or PM -2.5) that invariably generalise all particulates with equal toxicity without distinguishing among them by source and composition, which genuinely have different health consequences.
Scientist R K Mall led the team of other scientists including Nidhi Singh, Alaa Mhawish, Tirthankar Banerjee, Santu Ghosh, R S Singh from the Department of Science & Technology-Mahamana Centre of Excellence in Climate Change Research (MCECCR) at Banaras Hindu University which conducted the story.
After COVID-19, ‘black fungus’ robs some in India of their eyesight
Terrorists become increasingly ‘innovative’, in a world shaken by COVID-19
“We must preserve and defend these fundamental values and operating principles while we work together to prevent terrorists’ efforts to destabilize our Governments and societies”, stressed the Vladimir Voronkov, head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (OCT), saying that his office would integrate gender and human rights policies into all of its programmings.
He also maintained the need to continue efforts to deliver tailored, cost-effective capacity-building measures to sustain impact, including through UN field-based programmes.