Policy balance
The recent appointment of Sanjay Malhotra as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), replacing Shaktikanta Das, signals a pivotal shift in India’s monetary policy dynamics.
The recent appointment of Sanjay Malhotra as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), replacing Shaktikanta Das, signals a pivotal shift in India’s monetary policy dynamics.
Last minute preparations, exposure camps abroad, TOPs funding, overlooking administrative mess-ups to pick the crème de la crème of Indian sports for the biggest show on earth that unfolded in Paris three years after COVID-19 pushed the Tokyo edition of the Olympics by a year.
The Orissa High Court has directed the State Government to expeditiously grant Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia and family pension to a widow whose husband, a police constable died of Covid-19 during duty when the pandemic was at its peak.
As per the data, mortality rates in this group have remained relatively consistent, at 3.30% in 2019 and at 3.13% and 3.23% in the post-vaccination years of 2022 and 2023 respectively.
SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the Covid-19 pandemic, remains in the skull and meninges for years after infection, leading to a long-lasting effect on the brain, according to a major German study.
The total caseload rose to 4,50,15,843, including the 541 JN.1 Covid variant cases.
According to the data, of the new cases, 296 cases were reported from Karnataka, followed by Kerala 110 and Maharashtra 70.
Cambodia has detected the first four cases of the new COVID-19 JN.1 variant, which is the "descendant of the highly mutated BA.2.86 lineage," the country's health ministry announced.
In his message marking the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has emphasized the imperative for global preparedness against future pandemics, drawing on the lessons from the Covid-19 crisis.
In a relief for West Bengal, swab samples of Covid-19 patients sent to the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBG) in Kalyani for genome sequencing were tested JN.1 negative, a sub-variant of Covid.
