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India 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.
Centre convenes high-level meeting on Serotype-2 dengue cases in 11 states
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.
International
Swiss Re, Zurich insurance in talks with Swiss regulator about Coronavirus Impact
Insurers — as well as the re-insurers who take up their losses — are assessing the cost of disruptions related to the virus – which has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 and put swathes of the U.S. and Europe on lockdown. The industry has worked to reduce its exposure to pandemics since the 2003 outbreak of SARS in Asia. Over recent years, that’s included tightening their policies by inserting communicable-disease exclusions in contracts.
California issues ‘stay home’ order; U.S. death toll hits 200
Millions could die if virus allowed to spread unchecked: UN chief Antonio Guterres
US life insurers go slow on new policies to limit Coronavirus risk
Credit ratings firms AM Best and Fitch Ratings this week revised their outlooks for U.S. life insurers from stable to negative as the global economic meltdown rattle U.S. life insurers
An historic stock market slump and interest rate cuts will pressure life insurers’ earnings, reserves and capital, Fitch said on Tuesday.
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