The Hill Fort Palace. | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G Telangana High Court on Tuesday expressed concern over the officials concerned failing to explain the steps taken to restore and conserve the Hill Fort palace, a heritage structure. A bench of Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice C.V. Bhaskar Reddy, hearing a PIL petition seeking restoration … Read more
Mumbai: Two major medical colleges in the city and 19 in Maharashtra are set to miss the Monday deadline set by National Medical Commission (NMC) to start using the Hospital Management Information System (HMIS), a digital tool to collect, store and process health information. NMC, India’s medical education regulator, has been pursuing the use of … Read more
Sept. 7, 2022 – Pooja Mehta began having anxiety and hearing voices when she was 15 years old. “I was fortunate to have incredibly supportive parents who insisted that I get professional help. I was very much against the idea, but I listened to them,” says Mehta, who lives in Washington, DC. She was diagnosed … Read more
New Delhi: The National Health Authority (NHA) under its flagship scheme of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has launched a public dashboard for near real-time information on the scheme. The ABDM public dashboard displays detailed information on the core registries under the mission – Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) numbers, Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and … Read more
New Delhi: THIP Media, the information media division of The Healthy Indian Project, has announced the launch of a WhatsApp health information and fact checking chatbot on WhatsApp Platform. The Chatbot is named Ask RAKSHA, where RAKSHA is an acronym for Readily Accessible Knowledge and Support for Health Action. The intuitive chatbot will help Indian … Read more
Misinformation bombards us every day, coming from multiple directions at a pace that is downright dizzying. While we might feel overwhelmed by the volume, frequency, and increasing sophistication of misinformation in all its forms — from deepfake videos and doctored images to outright propaganda — we can push back and regain a sense of control. … Read more
A national digital drugs databank will help in addressing “information asymmetry” as well as provide key inputs in mapping the regulatory needs of different states, according to a pharmaceutical sector study conducted by the Competition Commission of India. The fair trade watchdog, which works on ways to foster competition and curb anti-competitive practices, in the … Read more
Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is revamping its surveillance systems as insider trading gets more sophisticated. Earlier, company insiders or their proxies would buy and sell shares based on insider tips. But now they have started using complex derivative strategies to make a quick buck — and evade the law. This … Read more
Thiruvananthapuram, August 6 (ANI): Kerala government on Thursday launched the ‘COVID-19 death information portal’ in the state to maintain a proper record of the number of deaths due to the virus. While launching this portal, Kerala Health Minister Veena George said, “The state government has launched a new COVID-19 death information portal to know more … Read more
Niche social media platforms such as Telegram and Signal have emerged as new sources of information on companies and stocks — leaving the regulator to play catch-up on sharing of price-sensitive information on these channels. Synopsis Companies took any number of days to upload the transcript of such calls, though the information shared in the … Read more