App with live heatmaps to help reduce road fatalities – ET HealthWorld

App with live heatmaps to help reduce road fatalities – ET HealthWorld

NEW DELHI: With a functional IT application in place for collecting real time data on road crashes and generating live colour-coded heatmaps on as small as 500-metre stretches across the country with details of persons and vehicles involved, the government is expecting the platform to guide states and local authorities to reduce fatalities. All states … Read more

Yangtse faceoff | No fatalities or serious casualties on Indian side, Rajnath tells Parliament

Yangtse faceoff | No fatalities or serious casualties on Indian side, Rajnath tells Parliament

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Winter Session of Parliament, on December 13, 2022 | Photo Credit: PTI Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops tried to transgress the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Yangtse area of Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh and “unilaterally” change the status quo, which was contested by Indian troops in a “firm and resolute” … Read more

Lightning Fatalities on the Rise: How to Stay Safe in a Storm

Lightning Fatalities on the Rise: How to Stay Safe in a Storm

Sept. 22, 2022 — Sonia Chavez was on the balcony of her midrise Dallas apartment when the unthinkable happened: As she was filming a thunderstorm with her cellphone, lightning struck her in a flash of blinding light and searing heat that knocked her off her feet. The thunderbolt, which Chavez captured on film, damaged her … Read more

Coronavirus Infected One-Third of Americans in 2020

Coronavirus Infected One-Third of Americans in 2020

Aug. 26, 2021 — About one third of the US population had been infected with coronavirus 2 by the end of 2020, according to a new study published today in Nature. Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, director of the Climate and Health Program at Columbia University, and colleagues simulated the spread of coronavirus within all 3,142 … Read more