Since February this year, researchers at AIIMS Rishikesh have been conducting a clinical trial to see if chanting Gayatri Mantra & doing pranayam can help moderately ill Covid patients.
Rajendra Nikalje, alias Chhota Rajan, has been lodged in the Tihar prison in New Delhi since his arrest after deportation from Bali, Indonesia, in 2015.
Doctors are outraged by new AIIMS order and say it will increase the risk of Covid exposure to other patients, Indian Medical Association plans to write to govt.
At meeting chaired by Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, MoS Ashwini Kumar Choubey flagged reports of patients showing signs of Covid-related lung damage and yet testing negative.
In the SOP, doctors recommend different body positions including prone position to improve blood oxygen of Covid patients. These can also be tried with patients in home isolation.
In an urgent request, Dr Naveet Wig, the chairperson of Covid Task Force at AIIMS said the need for manpower has increased multi-fold due to increase in Covid patients.
A day before, the former PM and Congress leader had written to PM Narendra Modi suggesting ways to deal with Covid crisis in India. He had taken both the doses of Covid vaccine.
Randeep Guleria, Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, was the guest at this edition of ThePrint's Off the Cuff.
In a conversation...
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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