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Vadodra resident Rameshchandra Joshi, who had filed the complaint against the insurance firm in August 2017 after the firm rejected his claim People can claim insurance even if they were admitted for less than 24 hours in a hospital, a Vadodra consumer forum said. The court has ordered National Insurance Company to make payment to Vadodra resident Rameshchandra Joshi, who had filed the complaint against the insurance firm in August 2017 after the firm rejected his claim, according to media reports. The forum said that in the modern age new treatments and medicines have been developed, resulting in patients being treated in lesser time or even without hospitalisation.

India has seen its daily count of covid cases go above 400 lately, according to government data, with two deaths reported, one each in Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh. While our seven-day rolling average of daily infections calculated on Monday was barely a thousandth of the Delta wave peak in mid-2021, an uptrend has caused concern enough to catch the attention of our authorities.

COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has expressed gratitude to the Paris Club, Japan, India, and China for enabling cooperation required to reach an IMF facility for the country.In an open letter to Sri Lanka's Official Bilateral Creditors, President Wickremesinghe noted that the government deployed all efforts to demonstrate our commitment to the EFF program and relentlessly engage on the path to reforms. He said the administration has already implemented major reforms by way of prior actions agreed with the IMF.The President said his government introduced a robust  reform agenda aimed at achieving debt sustainability, strengthening governance, widening the social safety nets supporting the most vulnerable and ensuring we can grow an inclusive  economy attractive to international business. He said this is how Sri Lanka will improve the lives of its people and ensure they are first in line to benefit from improvements in our economic conditions.The President has requested creditors to maintain and even enlarge and strengthen official bilateral creditor coordination in the context of Sri Lanka's forthcoming engagement. He called on the Paris Club  bilateral partners, in particular Japan, together with all our other official bilateral partners,  including India and China, to garner and foster coordination as you best see fit.The Presidnet noted that Sri Lanka is committed to communicate transparently with all on any debt treatment terms that are agreed with any creditor or group of creditors, before being formalized. The President in his letter has also committed not to resume debt service to any creditor unless that creditor agrees on a comprehensive debt treatment in line with IMF-supported

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H3N2 influenza virus. Several states of the country, including Tamil Nadu, are witnessing rising cases of the H3N2 influenza virus.

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Apple has been reportedly working to add hearing related functionality to AirPods. These may include Live Listen and Conversation Boost features. Although these features are yet to be approved by the FDA, Gurman adds.

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PHILADELPHIA - Dozens of stolen artifacts, some dating back to the French and Indian war, have been returned to their rightful owners.The Museum of the American Revolution hosted a ceremony on Monday to display the dozens of items stolen from various museums and historical societies between 1968 and 1979, before they were carefully packaged to go back to 16 different museums in Pennsylvania and five other states."Their long absence from public view, away where no one can see or learn from them was a loss both to society and our historic record," said Jacqueline Maguire Special Agent in Charge with the Philadelphia Field Office. "When items from the past are stolen, the real victim is our future."In December 2021, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania indicted Michael Corbett of Newark, Delaware, for possession of those firearms and other items stolen from museums in the 1970s.PREVIOUS COVERAGE: FBI: Artifacts stolen from Pa. museums in 1960s, 1970s returnedIn August 2022, Corbett pleaded guilty to the possession of stolen items transported interstate, and, in accordance with his plea agreement, turned over to the government additional stolen firearms to which he had access.The investigation that led to Corbett and the items, including a search warrant of his Newark home in 2017, involved a nearly decade-long investigation involving the FBI, Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, and the U.S.

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Zero Covid strategy followed by the country for over three years which hurt its economic growth also led to public protests, was completely right and delivered highly effective outcomes. This comes even as China continues to record a significant rise in influenza cases.

A Sri Lankan attempting to smuggle in gold worth Rs 6.5 Million (Indian) was arrested by Bengaluru Customs sleuths at Kempegowda International Airport.

COLOMBO (News 1stA); The Sri Lanka Navy conducted a special operation to chase away Indian poaching trawlers from Sri Lankan waters on Sunday (12) morning. The operation led to the seizure of 2 Indian trawlers with 16 Indian nationals poaching in Sri Lankan waters northeast of Veththalakeni and off the Analativu Island.The Navy continues to conduct regular patrols and operations in Sri Lankan waters to curb illegal fishing practices of foreign fishing trawlers.As an extension of these operations, the Northern Naval Command deployed Fast Attack Craft of the 04th Fast Attack Flotilla to chase away a cluster of Indian poaching trawlers, having spotted they were engaging in illegal fishing in Sri Lankan waters northeast of Veththalakeni and off the Analativu Island.

There is still a need to remain vigilant and focus on five-fold strategy of test-track-treat-vaccination and adherence to the covid appropriate behaviour By Livemint New Delhi: India recorded 444 fresh covid infections in the last 24 hours, pushing up active cases to 3,890, according to Union health ministry’s update on Monday. There has been an uptick in daily cases over the past few weeks. Total reported cases stand at 4.46 crore, with death toll at 5,30,782.

Bhushan has also advised the state government to ensure vaccination coverage against Covid-19 and influenza NEW DELHI: Amid the rising number of influenza cases across the country and a slight uptick in the Covid-19 positive rate, the union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Saturday directed all states and union territories to closely monitor the trend of influenza-like illnesses, severe acute respiratory illness (ILI/SARIs) and SARS-CoV-2 while ensuring adequate stock of drugs, medical equipment, medical oxygen in the hospitals. Bhushan has also advised the state government to ensure vaccination coverage against Covid-19 and influenza.

COLOMBO (News1st):  The quality of the air in Colombo has dropped to unhealthy levels The Central Environmental Authority says. The value of the air quality indicators has increased to 124 units says Deputy Director General of the Central Environmental Authority Sanjaya Ratnayake. However, as of 11 AM on Saturday (11) the AQI had increased to 155 units. These units represent the amount of dust particles present per cubic meter of the atmosphere explained Ratnayake. He also says they believe that a change in the wind pattern blowing into the country from India has given rise to this situation.

COLOMBO (News1st):  The quality of the air in Colombo has dropped to unhealthy levels The Central Enviroment Authority says. The value of the air quality indicators has increased to 124 units says Deputy Director General of the Central Environmental Authority Sanjaya Ratnayake. However, as of 11 AM on Saturday (11) the AQI has increased to 155 units. These units represent the amount of dust particles present per cubic meter of the atmosphere explained Ratnayake. He also says they believe that a change in the wind pattern blowing into the country from India has given rise to this situation.

The Chief Justice of India has strongly expressed that the judiciary should not wait for another pandemic to evolve. CJI DY Chandrachud said the way Covid-19 prompted courts in India to adopt technology and modern tools for an effective delivery of justice, the same should advancement should continue. Speaking at the 18th meeting of the chief justices of the Supreme Courts of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member-states, he said, "The pandemic forced the judicial system to adopt modern methods to impart justice.

China dismissed such reports and emphasized that the pandemic is a scientific issue and should not be turned into a political matter. "The origins-tracing of SARS-CoV-2 is about science and should not be politicized.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India – Business Wire India GenWorks Health celebrated its 9th Anniversary recently with great fervour in Bengaluru. The celebrations aptly themed “Yeh Dil Maange More" was attended by Customers, Partners, Investors and Employees.

Haryana and Karnataka. The first death was in the Hassan district of Karnataka where an 82-year-old man died due to influenza. In Haryana, a 56-year-old lung cancer patient died after getting infected by the virus in January.

Edited excerpts: Do you think covid-19 pandemic has come to endemicity, in India and the world? From CDC’s perspective and the US administration side of things, we are ready to shift our response in the US, and we feel that we are approaching the time when we can manage covid-19 without using lockdowns etc. SARS-CoV-2 remains a public health priority for us, but we are in a better position to respond. We can definitely say that we are at a point where covid-19 doesn’t have to disrupt our lives which is what really most endemic diseases are.

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ANI. Dr Srivastava was speaking at an International Women's Day event at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Refering to the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) report, she said that India bears most of the burden of stroke, with 68.6% incidence of stroke, 70.9% stroke deaths, and 77.7 Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost.

Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda said that the economic integration is the key to enhancing the exiting relations between India and Sri Lanka to a special relationship. He made these remarks while addressing the officers of the Indian Armed Forces at the prestigious Army War College, Mhow, on the topic ‘Trajectory of Sri Lanka India Relations: 2030’.Speaking to the officers of the Indian Armed Forces who are following the Joint Higher Command Course, High Commissioner Moragoda broadly highlighted the strategic significance of Indo-Lanka relations drawing from the historical ties to the present status of the special relationship between the two countries.  Elaborating on the vibrant Indo-Lanka relations, High Commissioner Moragoda highlighted the key role played by India by way of extending much-needed financial assistance worth nearly USD 4 billion, which served as the lifeline that rescued Sri Lanka’s economy from a total collapse.He also deliberated upon the strong defence cooperation that exists between the two countries and the continued training assistance extended to the members of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces by India, including the training opportunities offered by the Army War College.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka aims to announce a debt-restructuring strategy in April and step up talks with commercial creditors ahead of an International Monetary Fund review of a bailout package in six months, the nation's central bank governor told Reuters.The crisis-hit island has secured financing assurances from all its major bilateral creditors, including India and China, and so has set the stage for the IMF to give its final approval for a $2.9 billion, four-year bailout package on March 20, the multilateral lender said on Tuesday.The bailout is the culmination of months of negotiations as Sri Lanka looks to emerge from its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades."When you see the staff level agreement published – that will contain our commitment to debt restructuring and that will also reveal medium-term debt targets for us to restore debt sustainability on a long-term basis," central bank Governor P. Nandalal Weerasinghe said on Thursday."So somewhere in April we will announce … how we are going to meet those medium-to-long-term (debt) targets.

Depression increases after COVID-19 pandemic even if you are… According to the details of the survey, one in five employees across the globe believe that their job has a negative impact on their mental health - with the numbers further skewed against women.  “At the end of the workday, 43% of employees are ‘often’ or ‘always’ exhausted, and 78% say that stress negatively impacts their work performance. That stress from work carries into our personal lives, too, as employees say work negatively impacts their home life (71%), wellbeing (64%), and relationships (62%)" the report adds.  But even as 40% of employees remain stressed about work, many of the surveyed individuals also admitted that they had ‘rarely or never talked with their manager about it’.

Also Read: Covid, Influenza cases rising in India in past few days: Do we need to worry? The country’s COVID-19 death toll stands at 5,30,775, while the active cases increased to 3,076, the data updated at 8 am stated. The infection tally was recorded at 4.46 crore (4,46,88,693).

travellers from China from 5 January 2023 due to surge of infections. It had stated that all travellers to the US from China will be required to take a COVID-19 test no more than two days before travel and provide a negative test before boarding their flight.  China was battered with a surge in cases after it abruptly abandoned its zero-COVID policy in early December, unleashing the virus on its 1.4 billion population.

Colombo (News 1st) – The International Monetary Fund announced on Tuesday (07) that Sri Lanka has received financial assurances from all its major bilateral creditors. This paves the way for the IMF Board to consider the approval of the Staff Level Agreement for financing under the Extended Fund Facility on March 20.Earlier in the day, China gave assurances that it will support Sri Lanka's debt restructuring, clearing the biggest hurdle for the nation to secure a USD 2.9 billion bailout from the IMF. The IMF approval for a USD 2.9 billion loan depended on financial assurance from all Sri Lankan creditors.

Here's a deeper look into it.  Size and structure of the virus: It is the structure of the virus that causes all the difference. “All coronaviruses are just about the same size. It is certainly the structure, but a virus has several adaptations that make it more likely to be passed from one person to another," said Dr Keith Roach, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill-Cornell; syndicated columnist To Your Good Health, as quoted by Sun Journal.  Viruses that can reproduce faster and produce a high number of viral particles are more likely to be transmitted from one person to another.

Ensitrelvir can shorten symptoms of mild to moderate COVID-19 by about a day Ensitrelvir, a new antiviral drug, has been shown to shorten symptoms of mild to moderate COVID-19 and moreover, it has the potential to prevent long COVID, study has shown. Here's all you need to know about the drug, can it really prevent long COVID and why the experts are still skeptical about it.  Ensitrelvir has been developed by Shionogi in Osaka, Japan and they claim that it shorten symptoms of mild to moderate COVID-19 by about a day and reduce the number of days people test positive for coronavirus.  The trial data was presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.  The trial involved roughly 1,200 people and aimed to determine whether the drug could accelerate recovery.

The government aims to provide low cost and good-quality medicines to everyone through Jan Aushadhi Kendras New Delhi: Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya launched the NaMo Free Dialysis Centre and 100th Janaushadhi Kendra in Bengaluru South on Tuesday. The minister also inaugurated NaMo Day Care Centre and flagged off four NaMo mobile healthcare units.

ALSO READ: H3N2 also spreads like Covid, says ex-AIIMS chief Randeep Guleria As per researchers, capturing coronavirus in this ways would prevent it from reaching and infecting more people, who added the coronavirus could be detected and destroyed using electrical pulses. "We discovered that electric current can pass through the spike protein and because of this, the protein can be electrically detected," co-author of study Essam Dief, a PHD candidate at Curtin University, said.

Covid cases when after a gap of 97 days, The nation started recording more than 300 cases in a day.  Further it should be noted that India have been reporting a high number of influenza cases in the last two months with prolonged illness, lingering cough, symptoms that are similar to Covid-19. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that this is due to the Influenza A subtype H3N2 virus.

The Medical and Family Welfare Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ma Subramanian, announced on Tuesday that the state's health department will conduct more than 1,000 fever camps on March 10. This decision was made due to a reported increase in fever cases among the public in the state. Subramanian added, "Tamil Nadu Health Department to conduct a mega fever camp where 1000 camps all over the state to be conducted on 10th March from 9 AM.

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Moderna Inc. Chief Executive Stéphane Bancel pushed back against criticism of the company’s pricing plans for its Covid-19 vaccine at Monday’s Wall Street Journal Health Forum.

New Delhi: As India grapples with a surge in H3N2 influenza cases, health officials are raising concerns about the troubling trend of co-infections with covid-19 New Delhi: As India grapples with a surge in H3N2 influenza cases, health officials are raising concerns about the troubling trend of co-infections with covid-19. Scientists tracking the spread of the influenza virus said there is a need for increased testing amid a sharp rise in ICU admissions, underscoring the severity of the situation. The symptoms of influenza cases are similar to covid-19 and may last two to three weeks.

Work from home, moonlighting, quiet quitting, and mass resignation. To add to the trends, a recent ‘way to avoid getting completely burnt out’ is 'Bare Minimum Mondays.  Employees hating to get up and go for work on Mondays, found itself termed as Monday Blues.

‘Women, a heart attack is not a men-thing,’ said Sushmita Sen who had suffered a heart attack earlier. Sushmita Sen has made it public that she had an angioplasty a few days ago after suffering a heart attack. She added that her heart had been stent-implanted and the recovery would typically take three to 12 months.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan who is also known as ‘Big B’ got injured during a movie shoot in Hyderabad. Amitabh Bachchan got injured while filming an action sequence in the  Prabhas and Deepika Padukone-starrer multi-lingual sci-fi movie, tentatively titled "Project K", will release in theatres on January 12 next year. The film features megastar Amitabh Bachchan in a pivotal role.

mental health problems are linked to higher rates of high blood pressure, metabolic disease, and heart disease. The study found that depression symptoms were significant among all patients, whether they were infected with COVID-19 or not.

Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, from American Airlines company, taking off from Barcelona airport, in Barcelona on 24th February 2023. (Photo by JanValls/Urbanandsport /NurPhoto via Getty Images) A college student was arrested Saturday for allegedly urinating on a fellow passenger while intoxicated during an American Airlines flight from New York to India, according to reports. Indian News Agency ANI reported that the urinating passenger is a 21-year-old college student in the U.S.

Also Read: UK health minister Matt Hancock resigns after breaking Covid rules with affair in office Throughout the pandemic, the UK government has been accused of scaremongering, but it has denied such allegations. Hancock's department stated that the accusations were "misleading". The WhatsApp conversation between Hancock and his media adviser, Damon Poole, took place on 13 December 2020, two days after the emergence of the new variant, known as alpha or the Kent variant.

An old recipe atop a cookbook from 1894 dusted with flour with vintage sifter and measuring cup in background. via Getty Images Old cookbooks could be worth a small fortune.Listings on eBay — a popular multinational auction website — show that some vintage cookbooks have been priced at hundreds or thousands of dollars.The cookbook that’s currently commanding the highest price on eBay is a 142-page spiral cookbook that’s entitled, "Arizona Cook Book: Indian, Mexican, Western, Arizona Products, Backpacking-Camping, Patio Barbecue," which has been listed for sale at $6,850.20 (original listing price: $9,786).$2 BILLS FROM 1890 COULD BE WORTH OVER $4,500: REPORTThe book was written by Al Fischer and was published in 1983 by Golden West Publishers.Other sellers on eBay and similar e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon and Etsy, have listed the book for under $20.The seller who’s hoping to sell the 40-year-old cookbook on southwestern cuisine has noted that the book is in "very good" condition and doesn’t have any "known wear or writing."Three other cookbooks that have a four-figure price tag on eBay at the time of publication include "The Australian Women’s Weekly: Great Ways with Steaks & Chops" from 1974 ($1,010.85), "Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book" from 1950 ($1,000) and a first-edition "La Methode Jacques Pepin: An Illustrated Guide to The Fundamental Techniques of Cooking" from 1976 ($1,000).Betty Crocker old cookbooks.