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India has sent around 2300 kg of medical aid to Chad, in response to a deadly fire incident in the African nation, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Saturday. The consignment departed from New Delhi today, contains essential life-saving antibiotics and general medicines. This underscores India's 'Vishwabandhu' approach, where it serves as a friend to the whole world.

special package of Rs 564 crore for the flood-affected areas and people in the state. On the third day of the Tripura Legislative Assembly, CM Saha said that Members of this Assembly are aware that the recent floods in the state have caused extensive damage to roads, bridges, power transmission lines, agriculture, gardens, cultivable agricultural land, fish ponds, dams, animal resources, and houses. «National highways, state roads, and rural roads were flooded, and ponds, reservoirs, and farmlands were inundated with silt and water. The initial estimate of damage due to the flood is about Rs 14,247 crore. District magistrates and line departmental officers assessed the actual damage at the field level. After assessing the actual damage, the state government will submit a memorandum to the Union Home Ministry requesting additional funds for relief and rehabilitation,» said CM Saha.

Republicans led by Donald Trump could easily be running scared around reigning VP Kamala Harris' increasing popularity, which has helped her in gaining stronghold in various US regions, which where projected to enter the Republican victory map, when Biden was still the Democrat candidate. This time, Trump himself has addressed some details from the previous edition of the US Presidential Elections, that happened in 2020, claiming that he had lost out 'by just a whisker'.

Union Minister of State for Ayush (Independent Charge) Prataprao Jadhav on Thursday announced that the National Exit Test (NExT) for Ayush will be effective for the students of 2021-22 academic session batch onwards. The decision was taken on the recommendations of a committee set up in this regard to review the concerns of the students in this matter, Jadhav said during a press briefing. The committee has recommended that the NExT will be applied to the students enrolled in the 2021-22 academic session under the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) and the National Commission for Homoeopathy (NCH) Acts, 2020, removing any ambiguity in its implementation. The committee was presided by Vice Chancellor, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, Professor Sanjeev Sharma, who was responsible for reviewing the suggestions from the students and submitting the recommendations to the ministry.

₹1,000 crore to doctors to prescribe the pain and fever reliever. Two years later, the government has decided to sharpen its glare on the marketing practices of pharmaceutical firms amid reports of these companies offering a range of freebies to doctors to promote their medicines. The department of pharmaceuticals, under the ministry of chemicals and fertilizers, has sought expenditure details from these companies on distribution of free samples, and expenses incurred on organising conferences, workshops, training and seminars, as part of a broader initiative to curb unethical marketing practices by drugmakers.

IL-76 aircrafts from Halwara and Bhatinda to airlift more than 200 NDRF personnel and tons of relief material to Vijaywada and Shamshabad to help aid the NDRF efforts in Andhra Pradesh, confirmed the Indian Air Force Media Co-ordination Centre on Monday. In a post on X, the Indian Air Force confirmed that the two aircrafts were used to airlift 242 NDRF personnel and 30 tons of relief materials for the state and multiple helicopters are also on standby. «Late last evening, @IAF_MCC swiftly responded to the call for augmenting NDRF effort. Two IL-76 aircraft took off at dawn from Halwara and Bhatinda, airlifting 242 NDRF personnel and 30 tons of relief material to Vijayawada and Shamshabad. Helicopters are also on standby in the affected areas, ready to provide further assistance.» the post read. Earlier today, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu inspected the flooding situation in various areas of Vijaywada.

Biocon said its subsidiary has received approval from the US health regulator to market a generic medication to treat chronic heart failure. Biocon Pharma has received approval of its ANDA for Sacubitril/Valsartan Tablets, in 24 mg/26 mg, 49 mg/51 mg and 97 mg/103 mg strengths, from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), the company said in a regulatory filing. Sacubitril and valsartan combination is used to treat chronic heart failure in adults to help reduce the risk of death and hospitalisation. The medicine is also used to treat paediatric patients over the age of one year.

The outbreak of covid in 2020 sparked a global war against a deadly new virus. Away from the spotlight, it also triggered a grand domestic battle between advocates of allopathy and Ayurveda. The trigger was Patanjali Ayurved’s quick launch of Coronil, a purported ‘cure for corona’ that drew public attention to dodgy claims and protests from allopathic doctors.

Dr. Peramsetty’s untimely death has sent shockwaves through the community, particularly among those who knew him as a dedicated healthcare provider and philanthropist. The Crimson Care Network expressed their grief in a heartfelt statement, requesting privacy for Dr. Peramsetty’s family during this difficult time. «We have been informed of Dr. Ramesh Peramsetty's passing. The Peramsetty family asks for privacy as they grieve. They have received an outpouring of love and faith. We will continue to honor him as he would want us to do,» the team shared on Facebook. The network assured the community that they would uphold Dr. Peramsetty’s legacy, stating, “Our clinics will remain open during this transition, and we will continue to provide uninterrupted care.”

industrial revolution with its new biomanufacturing policy designed to tackle food, energy and climate challenges, officials said on Sunday. Approved by the Union Cabinet on Saturday, the BioE3 policy for fostering high-performance biomanufacturing aims to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in different fields. High-performance biomanufacturing involves the production of products ranging from medicine to materials, tackling farming and food challenges, and promoting the manufacturing of bio-based products through the integration of advanced biotechnological processes. Laying the foundation of the BioE3 policy, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Interim Budget had announced «a new scheme of bio-manufacturing and bio-foundry» to provide environment-friendly alternatives such as biodegradable polymers, bio-plastics, biopharmaceuticals and bio agri inputs.

SpaceX's attempt at the first ever private spacewalk next week will be a test of trailblazing equipment, including slim spacesuits and a cabin with no airlock, in one of the riskiest missions yet for Elon Musk's space company. A billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees are poised to launch on Tuesday aboard a modified Crew Dragon craft, before embarking on a 20-minute spacewalk 434 miles (700 km) into space two days later. Until now, walking into the empty expanse of space has only been attempted by government astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), 250 miles (400 km) above Earth.

Mushrooms Of Uru to act as a field guide to the mushrooms commonly found in the city—some of these include Fairy Ink Caps (Coprinellus disseminatus), Pencil Shaving Mushrooms (Podoscypha petalodes) and Artist’s Conk (Ganoderma applanatum). Information about upcoming walks are available on their Instagram page.

health risks in the biggest crackdown since 2016 when 344 FDCs were prohibited. FDCs are medicines that combine two or more drugs into a single dosage. The union health and family welfare ministry on Thursday issued a gazette notification, prohibiting manufacture, sale and distribution of these medicines based on the recommendation of an expert panel that evaluated 324 FDCs. «The review of these FDCs started in 2019 and then Covid happened. The companies were heard and, thereafter, the committee gave its report at the end of 2021, recommending banning 156 FDCs,» a member of the panel said on condition of anonymity. «This is the largest FDC ban since 2016,» he added.

Allahabad High Court's order on assistant teachers' recruitment, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said that those who give pain shouldn't claim to give medicine. In a post on X in Hindi, the SP chief said the «favoured deputy chief minister» was part of the government which snatched reservation from the youth and when they got justice after a long fight, he came forward to show himself as sympathetic. The Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to prepare a fresh selection list for the appointment of 69,000 assistant teachers within three months, setting aside the lists issued in June 2020 and January 2022 which included 6,800 candidates. The bench also revised the earlier order and said the reserved category candidates who qualify for the general category merit list should be migrated to that category. In addition, the benefit of vertical reservation should also be extended to horizontal reservation categories, it said.

From a batch of MBBS students who had seen Covid pandemic break out as they learnt their craft, she had chosen respiratory medicine as her specialisation. At RG Kar, the campus she called her «second home», she immersed herself in patient management, the report said further. On August 9, after a shift and study cycle that stretched for 36 hours without a break, she had dozed off on a platform in the college's seminar room when she was sexually assaulted by one or more individuals (still the subject of a probe), and murdered in an attack of depraved brutality. Interns and fellow postgraduate trainees who had come to the seminar room the next morning found her body. Her laptop, a notebook & cellphone lay intact beside it.

Medical Student of RG Kar Medical College & Hospital on Saturday told media persons that they doubted if it was an act of one person and there was a role of some insider, after seeing their daughter's body. They also claimed that they have doubts if she was murdered in the seminar room or some other room. The parents blamed «negligence» on part of her Department and said the police had initially harassed them on August 9, the day her daughter's body was found. The father of the deceased doctor claimed that they have doubts if she was killed in the seminar room. «Police and CBI has been probing. NCW also came. I doubt if my daughter was killed in seminar. When she last spoke to her mother, she said they will have dinner at 11.15 at seminar hall,» he said, also mentioned that she wrote diary everyday and her diary was seized.

Africa but now reported outside the continent. While Mpox spreads more slowly than the novel coronavirus, it can still be lethal, depending on the strain. Cases detected in Sweden, Pakistan Sweden said a person who had got back from Africa has tested positive for mpox. The case was identified a day after World Health Organization (WHO) declared the latest outbreak of the disease as a public health emergency of international concern and warned that Europe could see more imported cases. On Friday, Pakistan became the second country outside Africa to report a positive case. The patient had returned from a Gulf country. Pakistani health authorities said tests were underway to determine the variant involved.

Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed a ban on “price gouging” by food suppliers and grocery stores, as part of a broader agenda aimed at lowering the cost of housing, medicine, and food

India-EU trade mustn’t stumble on digital sovereignty "The EU is advocating for stronger intellectual property protections, which India is cautious about due to concerns over generic medicines. Additionally, the EU is pressing for sustainability and labour standards in the agreement, but India is worried about their impact on its domestic regulations and industries," said trade analyst Ajay Srivastava, who is the founder of Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI), a think tank.

Indian Medical Association's (IMA's) inception in 1928, only one was a woman, said a team of researchers, including those from The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi. They looked at the current and past leaderships of the professional medical associations, including the Indian Public Health Association (IPHA) and those of all broad medical and surgical specialties. Unequal gender representation persists even in the medical associations closely involved in women's health such as obstetrics and gynaecology, pediatrics and neonatology, highlighting a male dominance, the authors said in the study published in the journal PLoS Global Public Health.

The strike disrupted normal life in Siliguri and most shops in the city were closed since 6 pm. A member of SUCI (Communist) Dr Shahriar Alam said, «Today this strike has a huge impact. People have spontaneously responded to our call and throughout Siliguri like the Medical College area, people have not taken out their vehicles, and they have not opened the shops. We can say that the impact is very good. We have called this strike to protest against the heinous incident at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.»