Worrying spikes in cases reported Thursday in France, Italy, Spain and Germany showed the pandemic was rebounding across the continent — often due to travel, summer holidays and parties. While Italy registered 845 new cases on Thursday, its highest daily tally since May, France reported 4,700 fresh infections — a …
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Health Minister Harsh Vardhan digitally addresses FSSAI’s Eat Right Challenge Orientation Workshop
The ‘Eat Right India’ movement initiated by FSSAI under the aegis of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has been creating awareness amongst the people about safe, healthy and sustainable dietary habits. To achieve this end and to convert the program into a people’s movement, FSSAI recently announced the Eat …
Read More »India announces USD 500 million help in Maldives Connectivity project
Maldivian president Ibrahim Mohammad Solih in a tweet said that “A landmark moment in Maldives-India cooperation today as we receive Indian assistance of USD250 million as budget support and USD500 million for the Greater Malé Connectivity Project. I thank PM @narendramodi and the Indian people for their generosity and friendship” Yesterday, …
Read More »Very low Coronavirus cases & deaths per million recorded in country due to Proactive response: Health Minister
The virtual meet was focused on maintaining essential health services and public health programmes in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan spoke about India’s tryst with COVID-19. He highlighted how India had been preparing for the pandemic as soon as China informed WHO on 7th …
Read More »Latin America exceeds 5 million COVID-19 cases: Sources
The coronavirus was initially slower to reach Latin America – home to about 640 million people – than much of the world. But health experts say it has been hard to control the virus due to the region’s poverty and densely packed cities. The more than 10,000 new cases reported …
Read More »ADB signs Dollar 200 million financing deal with Reliance for power plant in Bangladesh
A combined-cycle power plant is a relatively more efficient way of producing electricity. It uses both a gas and a steam turbine together to produce up to 50 percent more electricity from the same fuel than a traditional simple-cycle plant. The financing deal has two components of dollar 100 million …
Read More »Tata Steel aims 30 million tonne capacity by 2025 in India
Tata Steel is aiming an installed capacity of around 30 million tonne per annum by 2025 in India from the existing 18.5 million tonne. The company has recently acquired Bhushan Steel and Usha Martin plants, which has a combined rated capacity of 7 million tonne per annum. The planned 30 …
Read More »Coal India maintains production target at 652 million tonne for FY19
Coal India has maintained its production target at 652 million tonne for fiscal 2018-19, even as the government embarks on an offer for sale (OFS) programme to sell 3% stake in the mining behemoth. In the last fiscal, the company produced 567 million tonne of coal and dispatched 580 million …
Read More »Kridhan Infra’s arm bags two new orders worth $24.63 million
Kridhan Infra’s Singapore-based 100% subsidiary — KH Foges has been awarded two new orders in Singapore worth $24.63 million. KH Foges has been contracted to execute Piling Works for a seven-storey distribution centre in Singapore. This order is worth $19.85 million and is to be completed within 5 months. Additionally, …
Read More »Axis Bank raises $50 million under GMTN Programme
Axis Bank has raised $50 million under the GMTN Programme through its Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) branch. The settlement took place on October 16, 2018. The Notes will be consolidated and form a single series with the $250,000,000 3.25% Notes due 2020 issued on March 11, 2015 and the …
Read More »Facebook Says Hackers Accessed Data Of 29 Million Users
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook says hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users in a breach disclosed late last month. The leading social network had originally said up to 50 million accounts were affected in a cyberattack that exploited a trio of software flaws to steal “access tokens” that enable people to …
Read More »PNB Housing Finance surges on raising $200 million via ECB
PNB Housing Finance is currently trading at Rs. 857.30, up by 4.40 points or 0.52% from its previous closing of Rs. 852.90 on the BSE. The scrip opened at Rs. 853.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 868.85 and Rs. 853.00 respectively. So far 2103 shares were …
Read More »Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to 1.4 metres in length and …
Read More »Manthan – 8 Million Tonnes of Plastic is Dumped into the oceans every year
Water makes up to 71% of the Earth’s surface, the other 29% consists of continents and islands. The oceans hold about 96.5 percent of Earth’s water. But, even such volume of water is affected by plastic waste. Plastic in the ocean threatens the natural habitat of the marine life, disrupting …
Read More »United States to cancel USD 300 million military aid to Pakistan
The US will cancel USD 300 million in military aid to Pakistan over its failure to take “decisive actions” to support President Donald Trump’s new South Asia policy and act against terror groups like the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pentagon has announced, a fresh blow to the deteriorating ties …
Read More »United States to cancel 300 million USD military aid to Pakistan
The US will cancel USD 300 million in military aid to Pakistan over its failure to take “decisive actions” to support President Donald Trump’s new South Asia policy and act against terror groups like the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pentagon has announced, a fresh blow to the deteriorating ties …
Read More »United States to cancel 300 million military aid to Pakistan
The US will cancel USD 300 million in military aid to Pakistan over its failure to take “decisive actions” to support President Donald Trump’s new South Asia policy and act against terror groups like the Haqqani network and Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pentagon has announced, a fresh blow to the deteriorating ties …
Read More »Up to 8 million deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries yearly due to poor-quality health care
Recent gains against the burden of illness, injury, and disability and commitment to universal health coverage (UHC) are insufficient to close the enormous gaps that remain between what is achievable in human health and where global health stands today, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, …
Read More »Over 2 million Muslims begin Hajj in Saudi Arabia
The five-day hajj pilgrimage represents one of the world’s biggest gatherings every year. “We are very blessed by Allah to be in this place, and we pray to Allah to make the Islamic nations from the West to the East in a better situation,” said Essam-Eddin Afifi, a pilgrim from …
Read More »Million fold increase in the power of waves near Jupiter’s moon Ganymede
Listening to electro-magnetic waves around the Earth, converted to sound, is almost like listening to singing and chirping birds at dawn with a crackling camp fire nearby. This is why such waves are called chorus waves. They cause polar lights but also high-energy ‘killer’ electrons that can damage spacecraft. In …
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