New Delhi : India’s leading credit rating agencies, Crisil Ratings and ICRA have reaffirmed the Company’s credit ratings, underscoring continued confidence in Vedanta’s overall business stability, healthy financial performance and strong adherence to corporate governance. Significantly, the Crisil report notes that based on feedback from management and select lenders, the rating agency “understands that currently…
Bhubaneswar, July 18: Quality education, healthcare and focused research being its maxim, the Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University (SOA) here has completed 18 years of its existence while aiming to be counted as one of the country’s top notch institutions of excellence in future. Ranked 14 th in the country among institutions of…
Bangalore, 18/7: In a recent developments, Meta has apologised after an Indian chief minister’s social media post was mistranslated on some of its platforms, falsely suggesting he had died, according to Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency. On Tuesday, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah posted a condolence message in Kannada language on Facebook and…
New Delhi, 18/7: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) distanced itself from the I.N.D.I.A. bloc on Friday, saying it is not part of the opposition alliance anymore and questioning the Congress party’s role in leading it. The remarks made by Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh came ahead of an online meeting of the leaders of the…
New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday recommended countries to use the twice-a-year lenacapavir injection as an additional pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) option for global HIV prevention.The landmark policy action, aiming to reshape the global HIV response, was issued at the 13th International AIDS Society Conference (IAS 2025) on HIV Science, in Kigali, Rwanda.Lenacapavir…
New Delhi: Indians consume salt 2.2 times more than the amount recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), posing severe health risks such as hypertension, strokes, and kidney disease, among others, according to ICMR’s National Institute of Epidemiology.WHO recommends less than 5 grams per day of salt (roughly under a teaspoon) or below 2g of sodium…
New Delhi: A higher dose of rifampicin — a bactericidal antibiotic used primarily to treat tuberculosis (TB) — may be safe, and its use can potentially lead to recurrence-free survival in patients with pulmonary TB, according to a recent study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).TB is curable but still remains the most common…
Hyderabad, 18/7: The toll in the Sigachi Industries’ pharma plant explosion in Sangareddy district of Telangana rose to 46 after the death of a person who was undergoing treatment in a hospital, a senior police official said on Friday. The person who was injured in the June 30 explosion succumbed on Thursday, District Superintendent of…
New Delhi, 18/7: The United States has designated The Resistance Front (TRF) as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) – three months after the outfit, known as a proxy of the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba based in Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the April 22 carnage near Pahalgam in the Union Territory of…
Bhubaneswar, 18/7:In a shocking development, a fire broke out in the auditorium of a private college in Jagamara area of Bhubaneswar. There was a fire in the second floor, which has been brought under control. Fire and Emergency Services department responded swiftly and rescued around 65 students from the third floor. One student felt uneasy…
