by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 23, 2021 | Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Rejoicing over the third anniversary of the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY), Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday said that it has been three years of service and prosperity. "Three years of service and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 23, 2021 | Health, Indian News
AGARTALA/AIZAWL: Even as the Northeast is battling the Covid-19 pandemic, a few states are also witnessing an outbreak of the African Swine Fever (ASF). After Mizoram witnessed the ASF outbreak, now cases have been reported in Tripura where a large number of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic
WASHINGTON: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday will call on countries and companies around the world to create a $10 billion global health fund to prepare for future pandemics, and announce a $250 million contribution from the United States to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2021 | Health, Indian News, Policy
New Delhi: India's first official framework for air quality forecast, SAFAR, has been accepted internationally with peer-reviewed Elsevier Journal publishing its findings, founder project director Dr Gufran Beig said on Wednesday. The framework, mandated under the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2021 | Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India is likely to allow a smaller gap between COVID-19 vaccine doses for inoculations being carried out privately, in line with a court order, two sources told Reuters. Private hospitals and clinics will give their paying patients the option to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, International News, Technology
Airbus led a chorus of pledges by aviation leaders to cut emissions under an eco-friendly new slogan on Wednesday, but was forced to defend its jet-selling business under criticism from campaigners urging the industry to tame its growth. The European company, which...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Mumbai: Tata Group has emerged as the most trustworthy corporate group in a poll done by Equitymaster. The poll which gauged the trustworthiness of various corporate groups has, however, found that entities like Hero, Jindal, RPG group and the rest of the corporate...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2021 | Indian News, Life, Policy
NEW DELHI: New Delhi wants to block Chinese investors from buying shares in Indian insurance giant Life Insurance Corp (LIC) which is due to go public, four senior government officials and a banker told Reuters, underscoring tensions between the two nations....
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Health, Indian News
New Delhi: Experts Wednesday stressed on the need to focus on revising India's air quality standards to make them more stringent as the WHO released new guidelines and warned that air pollution is one of the biggest environmental threats. IIT-Kanpur...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 22, 2021 | Facts, Health
New Delhi: An estimated 57,000 premature deaths in Delhi during 2020 can be attributed to air pollution, Greenpeace India said Wednesday, revealing the city's annual average air pollution levels exceeded the WHO's 2005 air quality guidelines (AQG) by nearly...
