MUMBAI: A seven-year study at 54 private and public hospitals and 200 ICUs in India has found over 8,600 cases of severe bloodstream infections linked to mismanagement of tubes inserted into large veins to deliver medicines and fluids. These are called central lines, with newborns most at risk. About 40% of patients with central line…
NEW DELHI: Union agriculture minister Shivraj Chouhan Saturday countered US President Donald Trump’s description of India as a “dead economy,”, saying the latest GDP figures showed that “India is a long live economy” on the path to becoming developed and self-reliant. Trump’s statement was endorsed by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi who, too, had said “Indian…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has held that the motor vehicles tax, which is imposed for use of public places and infrastructure, cannot be levied if a vehicle does not use the same.“Motor vehicle tax is compensatory in nature. It has a direct nexus with the end use. The rationale for levy of motor vehicle tax…
PM Modi and US President Donald Trump (File photo) NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump “no longer has plans” to visit India later this year for the Quad Summit, The New York Times reported on Saturday, detailing how ties between Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have “unravelled” in recent months.In a report titled The…
Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju is reportedly upset with the French IT company Atos. Reason is said to be delay in the delivery of two supercomputers by the French company to Indian weather forecasting institutes. According to a report in news agency PTI, the Earth Sciences Ministry had ordered two supercomputers worth $100 million from…
NEW DELHI: After resigning from his Vice President post, Jagdeep Dhankhar has applied for a pension as a former legislator in Rajasthan, PTI reported. He hade represented the Kishangarh Assembly constituency as a Congress MLA from 1993 to 1998.Dhankhar had earlier received the pension as a former legislator until July 2019, which was discontinued until…
Bobby Kotick, the former head of Activision Blizzard, is reportedly considering buying TikTok, as the app could be banned in the United States. The Wall Street Journal reports that Kotick has talked to ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, about buying the app, which could cost hundreds of billions of dollars.This comes as US lawmakers…
Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari said that fewer than 50 weapons were fired at designated Pakistani military targets, prompting Islamabad to request a halt to hostilities by midday on May 10.A US federal appeals court has ruled that most tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump under emergency powers were illegal, challenging…
Apple‘s Find My app has cost the city of Denver, US $3.76 million in compensation and damages. In 2022, the city’s police wrongly raided and ransacked an elderly woman’s home looking for a stolen truck and guns. According to a report by CNN, Denver police were seeking to recover a stolen truck loaded with guns,…
Xi Jinping, PM Modi (C), Putin (R) China’s port city of Tianjin is set to become the stage for high-stakes diplomacy as world leaders gather for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, hosted by President Xi Jinping. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin are among the most closely watched attendees, marking PM…
