India's pollution increased last year, with PM2.5 levels about 11 times higher than the WHO standard, with New Delhi performing worst at 92.7 micrograms.
China's National Health Commission spokesperson Mi Feng linked the surge to the simultaneous circulation of several kinds of pathogens, most prominently influenza.
The report, released Tuesday, says incidence of disease in India was 199/lakh population in 2022. It also said globally, pandemic & ongoing conflicts caused disruptions to diagnosis.
The batch, manufactured by Fourrts (India) Laboratories Pvt. Ltd for Dabilife Pharma Pvt. Ltd, had high levels of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, WHO said.
Harayan's drug controller, Manmohan Taneja, is accused of taking bribe worth Rs 50 million from Maiden Pharmaceuticals to switch samples before the lab tests in India.
With 'pattern of disease' being stable & no alarming spike in hospitalisations and deaths in past few months, govt likely to call meeting of Covid task force soon, it is learnt.
WHO's first chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan learned to deal with a room full of high-income nations. But her work as the chairperson of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation is just getting started.
Criticised as the 'Chinese Health Organisation' in 2020, the WHO now wants information from China to 'better understand the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic'.
The centre saw an investment of USD 250 million from India & aims to harness the potential of traditional medicine to improve the health of people and the planet, according to WHO.
Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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