Washington : Twenty-eight healthcare companies, including CVS Health, are signing US President Joe Biden’s voluntary commitments aimed at ensuring the safe development of artificial intelligence (AI), a White House official said on Thursday. The commitments by healthcare providers and payers follow those of 15 leading AI companies, including Google, OpenAI and OpenAI partner Microsoft to … Read more
In a statement, BMA junior doctors committee co-chairs Dr Robert Laurenson and Dr Vivek Trivedi, said: “We have been clear from the outset of these talks that we needed to move at pace and if we did not have a credible offer, we would be forced to call strikes. Source link
The prime minister tells the BBC he backs the move because there is “no safe level of smoking”. Source link
Prof Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, has welcomed Rishi Sunak’s plan to raise the legal age of smoking every year by a year so that eventually no-one can buy tobacco. He told the BBC: “As a doctor I’ve seen many people in hospital desperate to stop smoking because it’s something … Read more
“This is a matter between the Maldives and India of course,” the U.S. State Department’s Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said at the daily press briefing. File | Photo Credit: X: Vedant Patel/@StateDeputySpox The U.S. government, on Tuesday, did not weigh in on Maldives president-elect Mohamed Muiz saying he would fulfil his election promise and … Read more
France joins several other European countries that are trying to stop children using e-cigarettes. Source link
Fishermen have urged the Environment Department to redraw the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) of Chengalpattu district after taking their inputs. “The names of several villages are missing, high and low tide lines have been marked wrongly, spots meant for parking boats, drying fish and spaces for construction of additional houses have all been left … Read more
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that as per the Constitution, census work is the job of the Union Government. | Photo Credit: PTI The Uttar Pradesh government has no plans to conduct a caste census in the State, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on August 10. Mr. Adityanath’s statement came in response to a question … Read more
Derailed coaches of the Coromandal express on the accident spot at Bahanaga railway station in Balasore. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Last month’s deadly multi-train collision at Balasore — which was caused by tampering of signalling equipment, and left at least 295 people dead, with over a thousand injured — may have shocked the Railways … Read more
Mysuru district in-charge Secretary S.Selva Kumar (right) presiding over a meeting in Mysuru on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra is seen. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram Senior IAS officer and Mysuru district In-charge Secretary S.Selva Kumar on Saturday told officials here to prepare an alternative plan for ensuring drinking water supply in rural areas in … Read more