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Health Ministry Flags Low Covid Testing

March 25, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Mar 25: The Health Ministry on Saturday warned that at a time when the country was registering a sustained increase in the trajectory of COVID-19 cases since mid-February in some States, COVID-19 testing had declined. It pointed out that the current testing levels were worryingly low and insufficient as compared to the standards […]

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Covid Cases on the Rise but Not in Hospitalisation or Death Rates: Govt

March 23, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Mar 23: Despite a sudden rise in the number of positive Corona cases during the last few days, there had been no alarming increase reported in the cases of hospitalisation or in the death rate so far, the union health ministry said on Thursday. It said the XBB.1.16 sub-variant of Omicron might be […]

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Unprecedented: Ukraine may become the first nation at war to secure $15.6 bn IMF loan

March 23, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In its 77-year history, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is, for the first time, likely to sanction a USD 15.6 billion loan to war-ravaged Ukraine, which Russia invaded on February 24, 2022. Ukraine won staff backing for this loan from the IMF, the media reported. The IMF and officials in Kyiv […]

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Government to promote AYUSH treatment through health tourism

March 23, 2023 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, March 23: The Ministry of Ayush and the Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), the ministry of tourism, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the goal of promoting the medical values of ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicine in terms of travel and collaborating to improve them. Sarbananda Sonowal, the minister of […]

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High-Level Corona Review Meeting as over 1,100 New Cases Reported in a Day

March 22, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Mar 22: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a high-level meeting on Wednesday to review the Covid situation amid rise in cases in the country and also took stock of the public health preparedness, officials said. Modi emphasised on the need for lab surveillance, genome testing and testing of all Severe Acute Respiratory […]

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Sri Lanka: IMF approves $3 bn bailout to support India’s cash-strapped neighbor

March 21, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a year of unprecedented political and economic turmoil which resulted in the overthrow of the Rajapakse dynasty’s stranglehold on bankrupt Sri Lanka, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a nearly USD 3 billion bailout package on Monday for the South Asian island nation. Sri Lanka is burdened with an […]

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New Covid Variant is on Surge, But “No Alarming Severity”

March 20, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Mar 20: The experts have confirmed that a newly detected variant of Covid virus is pushing up the current surge in cases across the country. The experts, however, also comforted stating that there was no “alarming severity” reported so far from the new variant. “The new variant XBB1.16 was currently being monitored,” Dr. Saumitra […]

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Sinking banks: Now, UBS takes over rival Credit Suisse for $3.25 bn; 9k jobs to go

March 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the Swiss government assuring to provide USD 9 billion to help UBS meet the possible losses while taking over nearest rival Credit Suisse, and the Swiss National Bank providing USD 100 billion of liquidity to facilitate the deal, UBS Group on Sunday agreed to take it over for USD […]

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Covid-19: Claims of a spike in poverty in India patently false, says study

March 20, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Claims of a spike in poverty and inequality in India during the Covid-19 pandemic period—2020-21—are patently false as they are based on incomparable surveys. In fact, inequality fell across the country during this period. These are the findings of a paper co-authored by eminent economist Arvind Panagariya, a former Vice-Chairman […]

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Water luxury: UN says bottled water industry can undermine safe water goal for all

March 18, 2023 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after Tata Consumer Products called off the talks with Bisleri International, to potentially acquire it for nearly Rs. 7,000 crores, a United Nations report said the rapidly growing bottled water industry can undermine progress towards a key sustainable development goal: Safe water for all. Based on data from 109 […]