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TopicSenior citizens

Topic: senior citizens

Indus Senior Savings Account offers senior citizens a seamless banking experience

From pick-up facilities to high rates on fixed deposits, IndusInd Bank's new savings account has been crafted keeping the needs and welfare of senior citizens in mind.

Older people face higher risk of Covid reinfection, study in Lancet shows

The Denmark study of test results conducted last year focused on the original coronavirus strain and made no assessment of new variants thought to be more transmissible.

Japan’s automakers are going back to the drawing board as the elderly get into more accidents

With 30% of the population aged 65 or older, Japan's regulators are stepping up pressure to standardise advanced features that make the vehicles more use friendly for the elderly.

If you are old, try these home exercises and boost immunity in Covid age

Staying active can be challenging, as many older adults are remaining at home most of the time to avoid the coronavirus.

Covid-19 is more serious for the elderly. So what?

Governments shouldn't be focusing just on identifying which demographic is more affected, but on its response to dealing with the data at hand.

Indian law unclear on who to back if a woman is thrown out by her in-laws

Past court judgments have been unable to clarify whether women's right under Domestic Violence Act takes precedence over the right of parents-in-law under the Senior Citizens Act.

This is how senior citizens are coping with erratic essential supplies and medical care

Senior citizens are struggling to get daily needs items, as are those who rely on domestic hrelps and nurses. But neighbours and organisations are helping them.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.