The advisory stressed on capacity building, saying identified human resource needs to be trained online using online training programs developed by the ministry.
The government will also evacuate Indians on Friday from China's Wuhan city, the epicentre of the deadly Coronavirus, which has spread to at least 17 countries already.
In December 2016, the Supreme Court directed the central government to have a graded action plan to tackle the menace of air pollution. There are two plans - Comprehensive Action Plan and Graded Response Action Plan.
Femina magazine salutes the indomitable spirit and selfless service of 15 women who have contributed to fighting the deadly pandemic.
The Sensex fell nearly 2 per cent on Friday after a surprise rate hike by the RBI led to a slide in rate-sensitives like banking and auto shares.
Meet the richest and poorest candidates contesting the election to the richest civic body in the country.
The Congress, the main opposition party, had won only 36 seats, the SEC said about 4 pm.
The panel is expected to suggest various relief measures to put economy back on track as soon as possible, the sources said.
The hospital, in the commercial hub of Bandra-Kurla Complex, will serve as an isolation facility for non-critical COVID-19 patients. Expected to be ready in a fortnight, the new makeshift facility can be scaled up to 5,000 beds, if needed. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will run the hospital that will have, among other things, oxygen facilities and pathological laboratories. Sohini Das reports.
India is in the midst of its biggest crisis since Independence. It is a national emergency and begs to be dealt with. Politics can wait. Lives need to be saved. We need to vaccinate India at a pace faster than any country in the world, asserts Ramesh Menon.
The view is that the attention on the national team is fleeting, incidental and dependent on the results they produce.
'You can put 25 per cent right now; put another 25 per cent when Nifty corrects another 500 points.' 'At 13,500 put another 25 per cent and at 13,000 one can get fully deployed.'
'George was a politician with a difference. He had the ability to stand alone, take a position, however extreme, and sustain that position,' remembers Arun Jaitley.
The Maharashtra government announced categorisation of various areas into red and non-red zones
The results of blood samples of the student, which were tested at the National Institute of Virology in Pune, have confirmed Nipah, she said.
'We are seeing 50% fewer cases now.' 'It is primarily due to the lockdown.'
'Modi is still immensely popular and, therefore, he can sustain any number of policy failures.' 'Modi himself has worn multiple faces so it would be naive to think that the Modi of 2021 will be the same Modi that will be campaigning for re-election in 2024.'
In this event, it is the IAF that showed true professionalism, telling the boss they weren't going to fly in that weather. You can see what professionalism and moral courage it takes to say no to your prime minister. Only things like that can keep him safe, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Ruling Congress-led UDF in Kerala on Saturday suffered a setback in the civic elections, billed as the semifinal ahead of next year's assembly polls, as CPI-M-led LDF won a majority of local bodies while the BJP made inroads improving its performance.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who on Tuesday met those injured in the Kalka Mail accident at a hospital in Kanpur, pulled up railway officials after the victims complained that they had not received the promised compensation.During his nearly 40-minute visit to Hallett Hospital, Rahul, who was accompanied by Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal and senior rail officials, inquired about the condition of those undergoing treatment in the Burns, Emergency and ICU wards.
Manjula Chimbalkar, a health coordinator from Mumbai's COVID-19 hotspot Dharavi, speaks about her concerns and fears
Samples of these seven passengers have been sent to the ICMR-NIV Pune lab. Samples of four other passengers tested earlier have been confirmed to be negative for nCoV by the lab.
Health services in Bihar were partially affected after nearly 2600 government doctors under the banner of Bihar State Health Services Association (BSHSA) boycotted work for 24 hours from 6 am on Tuesday.
Amid rising coronavirus cases in India, the government has asked people not to panic, saying no community transmission of the virus has been observed and there has only been a few cases of local transmission so far and that it is "not a health emergency" in India at present.
'You could have an additional pool of 15,000-odd qualified and competent doctors.'
Politicians and bureaucrats find it very difficult to accept their failure and inability as it is not in their veins, the Delhi high court Wednesday said while expressing concerns over the condition of subordinate judiciary's judicial officers who are at risk of contracting COVID-19 owing to the nature of duties.
Government officials have lodged FIRs and slapped fines to the tune of Rs 1 crore on hospitals involved in frauds.
India's boxers are headed in the right direction and will do something big at the Tokyo Olympic Games next year, reckons High Performance Director Santiago Nieva.
Having emerged as the face of opposition resistance to the Narendra Modi juggernaut after the TMC's triumph in the assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is locked in an unequal battle as she squares off with "lightweight" rivals in her own lair--Bhabanipur.
The doctors at the government-run medical facility were in a meeting at that time.
During the Emergency years (1975-77), Dhawan was among Indira Gandhi's inner circle of leaders.
'Most of the cases in Mumbai are asymptomatic -- 85 per cent you can say.' 'Only 10 to 15 per cent are symptomatic.'
The Delhi government on Sunday ordered all schools to file "safety report" within a month, saying arrogant and insensitive behaviour will not be tolerated.
With the Tamil Nadu electorate having given him an unprecedented mandate that had eluded his father the late M Karunanidhi, Stalin has to prove his worth, ensuring at the same time that the Dravidian drag on the AIADMK's side does not open up space for the BJP to make inroads in the state, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The biggest storm -- Typhoon Hagibis -- to hit Japan in decades left deaths and destruction in its wake, as it battered the central and eastern parts of the country. The storm flooded rivers and caused secondary weather patterns like tornados that destroyed homes and public property in areas east of Tokyo. Hagibis hit the capital, where streets were largely deserted and people were bunkered down, moving past the city by midnight, but not before flooding some sections. Reports state that the storm killed as many as 33 people and injured 186 others.
'This experience is horrifying. Doctors need psychiatrists to handle the trauma they are going through in the face of this pandemic'
Some BJP and Congress leaders believe the assembly building is filled with 'negative energy'.
According to the ministry, Maharashtra remained at the top with the total cases at 1,985, including 217 patients who have recovered/discharged and 149 patients died.
'Your body will be able to deal with Omicron at any time, but it depends (on when) if you are vaccinated.'
Surat resident Ashfaq Shaikh, a prime suspect, allegedly replaced his colleague Rohit Solanki's photo on the latter's Aadhaar card with his own. He also changed the birth date on the Aadhaar card.
