by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden urged world leaders on Friday to join the United States and European Union in a pledge to cut methane emissions, hoping to build momentum before an international summit on climate change begins next month. Biden made the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Facts, Policy, Technology
Nainital: The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday directed the central and state governments to file a reply within four weeks on a PIL related to conducting post-mortems in a virtual manner. The plea was heard before a division bench of Justice Sharad Kumar...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
NEW DELHI:Sept 18: Google abused the dominant position of its Android operating system in India, using its "huge financial muscle" to illegally hurt competitors, the country's antitrust authority found in a report on its two-year probe seen by...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Disaster & Management, International News, Risk Management, Technology
Beijing,Sept 18: Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has published a patent for 'Method and Equipment for Realizing Seismic Monitoring of Mobile Devices' with publication number CN113406696A. The patent describes a system that is capable of reading/monitoring seismic...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Policy, Risk Management
Washington DC, Sept 18: Under fire for allegations that it bowed to pressure from China and other governments, the World Bank has dropped a popular report that ranked countries by how welcoming they are to businesses. The report is important to many companies and...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi, Sept 17: India reported 35,662 fresh COVID-19 cases and 281 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Saturday. The country's active caseload stands at 3,40,639 which accounts for 1.02 per cent of total COVID-19 cases....
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Facts, Health, Policy
WASHINGTON: The American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the largest independent kidney patient organization in the USA, and its strategic partners at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) continue to make a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: The government on Thursday said COVID-19 booster shot is not the central theme in scientific discussion as well as in the public health domain at the moment and getting the two doses remain the main priority. Responding to a question at a press...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
MUMBAI: Nearly 90% of people in India's financial capital, Mumbai, are estimated to have COVID-19 antibodies, according to the civic body survey released on Friday. The fifth blood serum survey which tests for antibodies, known as a sero survey conducted between...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 18, 2021 | Health, Indian News, Policy
LUCKNOW: India will extend until the end of the year a reduction on taxes on drugs used for the treatment of COVID-19 infection, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday. In June, India had cut taxes on medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators and...
