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  • Biggest concern after COVID-19 is to bring employees back to offices: Mike Davis June 02, 2023 11:15 AM IST

    Biggest concern after COVID-19 is to bring employees back to offices: Mike Davis

    Occupier businesses, industrial, and data centres are on a growth trajectory in APAC and India, said the managing director, occupier services, Asia-Pacific, at Colliers

  • MC Exclusive | Alstom emerges as lowest bidder for 100 aluminium Vande Bharat trains May 31, 2023 06:30 AM IST

    MC Exclusive | Alstom emerges as lowest bidder for 100 aluminium Vande Bharat trains

    The consortium comprising Swiss railway rolling stock manufacturer Stadler Rail and Hyderabad-based Medha Servo Drives was the only other player that took part in this tender with a bid of nearly Rs 170 crore per train.

  • What Is ‘Disease X’? WHO Rings Warning Bells For A Deadlier Pandemic May 26, 2023 08:20 PM IST

    What Is ‘Disease X’? WHO Rings Warning Bells For A Deadlier Pandemic

    Just days after announcing an end of Covid0-19 as a global emergency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked world to be prepared of a deadlier pandemic. The WHO maintains a list of “priority diseases” that pose a significant risk of causing the next pandemic. Familiar names like Ebola, SARS and Zika have secured their place on this register, but there is one entry that stands out with an ominous moniker — Disease X. What is this ‘Disease X’? Watch the video to find out!

  • Prepare for disease deadlier than Covid, warns WHO chief May 24, 2023 04:33 PM IST

    Prepare for disease deadlier than Covid, warns WHO chief

    Speaking at the assembly weeks after ending the global emergency status for the COVID-19 pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was time to advance negotiations on preventing the next pandemic.

  • Explainer: How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics May 23, 2023 11:51 AM IST

    Explainer: How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics

    A new pact is a priority for WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who called it a "generational commitment that we will not go back to the old cycle of panic and neglect" at the U.N. agency's annual assembly.

  • Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong test positive for COVID-19 May 22, 2023 08:34 PM IST

    Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong test positive for COVID-19

    Lee, 71, said due to his age, doctors prescribed him the antiviral medication Paxlovid, adding that his most recent COVID-19 vaccine booster was in November.

  • Covid pandemic highlighted many gaps in global health architecture: PM Modi May 22, 2023 07:29 AM IST

    Covid pandemic highlighted many gaps in global health architecture: PM Modi

    In his video message at the 76th session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, Modi said the pandemic also highlighted a need to boost global health equity while India showed its commitment to international cooperation by shipping almost 300 million vaccine doses to more than 100 countries.

  • Hundreds of millions of life years lost to pandemic: WHO May 19, 2023 03:02 PM IST

    Hundreds of millions of life years lost to pandemic: WHO

    The UN health agency's annual world statistics report also showed a swelling threat from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

  • April aviation data: Domestic passenger traffic rises 22 percent on year, slightly lower than March May 19, 2023 02:22 PM IST

    April aviation data: Domestic passenger traffic rises 22 percent on year, slightly lower than March

    April Aviation Data released by DGCA shows that air traffic has surpassed pre-COVID levels. In April 2019, domestic airlines flew only 109.95 lakh passengers against 128.8 lakh this April.

  • Mumbai developers seek relaxation on govt charges for over 100 delayed projects approved in 2021 May 19, 2023 10:54 AM IST

    Mumbai developers seek relaxation on govt charges for over 100 delayed projects approved in 2021

    Developers say they had paid the premiums upfront during the 50 percent waiver on charges announced by the state government in 2021; projects were delayed due to various reasons that were not in the hands of the developers.

  • IndiGo aims to grow north of mid-teens this FY, says CEO Pieter Elbers May 19, 2023 07:42 AM IST

    IndiGo aims to grow north of mid-teens this FY, says CEO Pieter Elbers

    IndiGo is seeing robust demand for flying in current quarter and yield in the current quarter were higher when compared on year to a capacity constraints in the domestic Indian market.

  • China lifts ban on Australian timber imports in another sign of improving bilateral relations May 18, 2023 01:03 PM IST

    China lifts ban on Australian timber imports in another sign of improving bilateral relations

    Timber was on a list of Australian exports subjected to official and unofficial Chinese trade barriers imposed in 2020 after Australia called for an independent inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Obesity speeds up loss of immunity from COVID-19 vaccines, new research finds May 14, 2023 08:20 PM IST

    Obesity speeds up loss of immunity from COVID-19 vaccines, new research finds

    Several studies have suggested that following COVID-19 vaccination, antibody levels may be lower in people with obesity than in the general population.

  • DGCA suspends license of Air India pilot who allowed woman friend into cockpit May 12, 2023 08:42 PM IST

    DGCA suspends license of Air India pilot who allowed woman friend into cockpit

    The DGCA has also imposed a penalty of Rs 30 lakh on Air India for the delay in reporting the episode.

  • United States Ends Last COVID-19 Travel Barrier, Vaccine Mandate for Foreign Arrivals May 12, 2023 05:17 PM IST

    United States Ends Last COVID-19 Travel Barrier, Vaccine Mandate for Foreign Arrivals

    In February, the House of Representatives voted to end the last remaining pandemic restrictions on May 11.

  • Nepal sees tourism recovering fast after Covid; about 28% of total arrivals from India May 09, 2023 08:45 PM IST

    Nepal sees tourism recovering fast after Covid; about 28% of total arrivals from India

    The tourism board estimated that around 1.2 million tourist arrivals, an equivalent to the arrivals the Himalayan nation achieved in 2020, were expected this year.

  • COVID-19 vaccine maker Novavax to chop workforce, expenses May 09, 2023 07:13 PM IST

    COVID-19 vaccine maker Novavax to chop workforce, expenses

    The company had 1,992 full-time employees as of February 21, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

  • India adds 1,839 Covid infections, active cases down to 25,178 May 08, 2023 11:17 AM IST

    India adds 1,839 Covid infections, active cases down to 25,178

    The COVID-19 tally now stands at 4.49 crore (4,49,71,469). The death toll climbed to 5,31,692 with 11 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

  • COVID-19 no longer a global health emergency: WHO May 05, 2023 07:51 PM IST

    COVID-19 no longer a global health emergency: WHO

    WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has also warned of the ongoing impact of Long Covid, which provokes a long line of often severe and debilitating symptoms that can drag on for months or years.

  • Firms' inflation expectations hit 3-month low of 4.4% in March: IIM survey May 05, 2023 04:00 PM IST

    Firms' inflation expectations hit 3-month low of 4.4% in March: IIM survey

    Inflation expectations are keenly eyed by policymakers as anchoring them is critical to ensuring price stability

  • WHO experts weigh up whether world ready to end COVID emergency May 04, 2023 11:18 AM IST

    WHO experts weigh up whether world ready to end COVID emergency

    The WHO first gave COVID its highest level of alert on January 30 2020, and the panel has continued to apply the label ever since, at meetings held every three months.

  • GoFirst moves US court, blames Pratt and Whitney GTF engine for losses May 03, 2023 06:32 AM IST

    GoFirst moves US court, blames Pratt and Whitney GTF engine for losses

    In its petition in the Delaware Court, GoFirst said that between 2016 and February 2023, the airline carried out 289 Engine Changes and 221 Engine Swaps.

  • Vivad se Vishwas scheme: June 30 deadline for MSMEs to submit claims May 02, 2023 09:51 PM IST

    Vivad se Vishwas scheme: June 30 deadline for MSMEs to submit claims

    In cases of failure by MSMEs to execute contracts during the COVID period, 95 per cent of the forfeited amount relating to bid or performance security will be returned to them by the government.

  • Active Covid cases in country decrease to 44,175 May 02, 2023 10:29 AM IST

    Active Covid cases in country decrease to 44,175

    The death toll has increased to 5,31,564 with 17 deaths, which includes seven reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.

  • Even mild COVID-19 infection can harm heart health, study finds April 28, 2023 08:55 PM IST

    Even mild COVID-19 infection can harm heart health, study finds

    Researchers found that in individuals diagnosed with mild COVID-19, artery and central cardiovascular function were affected by the disease two to three months after infection.