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Relief: Tata’s Air India to restore staff salaries to pre-Covid levels

August 26, 2022 virendra pandit

New Delhi: Air India on Friday announced the restoration of its staff’s salaries to pre-pandemic levels from September 1, 2022. The airline had cut their salaries in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The loss-making airline, which the Tatas took over from the Government of India in January this year, will also revise crew layover […]

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ADTPS, AEML and Adani Foundation organise Cancer Detection Camp in Dahanu

August 25, 2022 Vinayak Barot

Although India has, for a long time, battled the incidence of cancer, latest estimates peg them to be rising at significantly higher rate. This is generally due to poorer prognosis, because of relatively low cancer awareness, inadequate early detection mechanisms, and the lack of equitable access to affordable curative care. However, cancer is curable, if […]

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Modi Inaugurates Two Healthcare Centres: Multi-Speciality Hospital in Faridabad and Cancer Hospital in Mohali

August 24, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Aug 24: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated a 2,600-bed private hospital at Faridabad in Haryana boosting up the modern medical infrastructure in the National Capital Region (NCR) and the country. The Rs 6,000 crores super multi-speciality hospital with 2,600-beds capacity is equipped with cutting-edge technology, including a centralised fully-automated laboratory […]

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Roving Periscope: Broke, Sri Lanka crushes protesting students, spurs professionals’ brain drain

August 24, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Unable to face economic and political crisis any longer, those who can are moving out of Sri Lanka as the South Asian country, where a mass uprising since March forced the dominant Rajapaksa family out of power and country. According to the media reports, thousands of Sri Lankans are fleeing […]

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Economy: China tries to prevent cascading effect of the real estate sector’s bust

August 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Global crises like the Covid-19 pandemic, resultant recession, and general distrust of China worldwide, which have adversely affected the second-largest economy since 2020, have forced Beijing to lower the interest rate of home loans to prevent buyers from declaring bankruptcy. With this aim, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the […]

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Economy: China tries to prevent cascading effect of the real estate sector’s bust

August 22, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Global crises like the Covid-19 pandemic, resultant recession, and general distrust of China worldwide, which have adversely affected the second-largest economy since 2020, have forced Beijing to lower the interest rate of home loans to prevent buyers from declaring bankruptcy. With this aim, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the […]

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Climate change: As Europe battles worst drought in 500 years, China also issues alert

August 19, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As much of Europe and the Northern Hemisphere of the planet is battling either drought, wildfires, low water levels, harvest warnings, water use restrictions, or a mixture of all these, China, the world’s second-largest economy, has issued its first national drought alert of the year with officials trying to douse […]

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SC Takes Serious Note of Pharma Companies Indulging in “Unethical Practices” of Freebies to Doctors

August 18, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Aug 18: The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious note of a plea to bring transparency in drug pricing and monitoring mechanism after being informed about the “unethical practices” being indulged in by the pharma companies in giving incentives to medical practitioners for prescribing their products. The particular reference was to the manufacturer […]

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Covid-19: Global deaths up by 35% in a month; WHO warns against dropping guard

August 18, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid the rise in the number of Covid-19 deaths by 35 percent in a month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday the pandemic is not over yet and warned against dropping guard. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus said: “15,000 people worldwide lost their lives to Covid-19. 15,000 a […]

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Corbevax Approved as Precautionary Dose for Adults

August 10, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Aug 10: The centre on Wednesday approved Corbevax manufactured by the Hyderabad-based Biological E as a precaution dose against Coronavirus for those above 18 years and fully vaccinated. It will be the third vaccine approved as precaution dose for the age group in addition to the earlier approved Covishield and Covaxin. Corbevax is […]

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