by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Lucknow: As many as 150 people were feared dead in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a hydroelectric dam on Sunday, with floods forcing the evacuation of villages downstream. A witness reported a wall of dust, rock and water as an...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Nurses and female health care workers are most at risk of experiencing psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new research. The study, carried out by the University of Sheffield in the UK, is the largest global review of factors...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's sovereign rating should not come under pressure due to surge in fiscal deficit which was mainly on account of higher expenditure to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, said Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj. Given the credibility of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Buyers of new vehicles after opting for scrapping of their old and polluting vehicles will be offered benefits under the new policy to phase out old and polluting vehicles, Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said. Terming the policy a boon, the road...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: India's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 1,08,26,363 with 12,059 new infections being reported in a day, while the daily deaths fell below 100 for the third time this month, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has cut carbon emission intensity of its operations by over 12 per cent in the last five years as part of making its operations more sustainable, chairman and managing director Shashi Shanker said....
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
London: Health chiefs in the UK on Thursday began what they have described as a world-first clinical trial of patients who will receive different Covid-19 vaccines for their first or second dose, to detect its impact on immunity...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Kolkata: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said that the country is developing seven more COVID-19 vaccines and also working on further vaccine development to inoculate every citizen of India. He said the Centre does not have any immediate plan to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Risk Management
New Delhi: The Centre''s ambitious tax dispute resolution scheme Vivad Se Vishwas has settled almost a quarter of the over 5.10 lakh tax disputes, with about Rs 97,000 crore worth disputed tax being resolved so far under it. As many as 1,25,144 cases have so...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 7, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
Can I take painkillers before or after a Covid-19 vaccine? It's best to avoid them, unless you routinely take them for a medical condition. Although the evidence is limited, some painkillers might interfere with the very thing the vaccine is trying to do:...
