On Friday, two Republican lawmakers — House China committee chair John Moolenaar and Senate ageing committee chair Rick Scott — are urging the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to delist 25 Chinese companies, including Alibaba Group. According to a Financial Times report, they argue that these firms’ alleged military ties endanger US national security … Read more
BBC Dr Andrew Purbrick, who represents thousands of GPs in the south of England, says surgeries are facing a “funding crisis” GP practices could be pushed “over the edge” by a planned rise in the National Insurance (NI) rate for employers, a doctor has said. The government has said the NHS and the rest of … Read more
FAPSIA president V. Murali Krishna and Aster Ramesh Hospital chairman Dr. Ramesh Babu exchanging a copy of an MoU in presence of MSME Minister Kondapalli Srinivas, at a programme organised in connection with International MSME Day celebrations in Vijayawada on Thursday. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao MSME, SERP and NRI Empowerment and Relations Minister Kondapalli … Read more
These youngsters would have been eligible for a jab when the vaccination rates began to fall in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Take up of the MMR jab started to drop following a 1998 report by Andrew Wakefield which falsely linked the jab with autism, according to a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) 2023 … Read more
The 6th All India convention of LIC Agents Organisation of India (LICAOI) will be held at Alluri Vignana Kendram at Dabagardens on May 22 and 23. Announcing this at a media conference on May 8, LICAOI zonal general secretary P.L. Narasimha Rao alleged that the Centre was planning to push the financially robust LIC … Read more
Dr Vanessa Saliba, from the UK Heath Security Agency, told BBC News: “We have early signs that there’s less spread of poliovirus in London – but we will need 12 months of no detections before the World Health Organization could declare that the UK is no longer an infected country.” Source link
At the time, the vaccine programme had just started rolling out, and the teaching unions were once again putting up objections to having schools fully open, arguing it would put their members at risk. Although throughout the pandemic teachers were at no higher risk of being infected than average. Shop workers and health staff, for … Read more
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar meets with Netherlands Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, in New Delhi on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI G20 negotiators met for a second late night on Wednesday to discuss breaking the impasse over a jointly approved document to be released at the … Read more
A cottage at Maachli in Sindhudurg. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Mattur is a village in Karnataka where residents speak only in Sanskrit. Maachli in Maharashtra is an agrarian homestay surrounded by coconut, betel, and banana plantations. The Bishnoi village in Rajasthan has frequent visits from the endangered Great Indian Bustard. These are destinations … Read more
Inflation and lack of beds and staff could halt bid to cut long waits, National Audit Office says. Source link