National Health Policy 2017, recently cleared by the centre is, “comprehensive & futuristic, placing the interests of the citizens first & foremost and marks a historic moment in our Endeavour to create a healthy India where everyone has access to quality healthcare”, in the words of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Government of India is formulating an Integrated Transport and Logistics Policy aimed at transforming India’s logistics from a point-to-point model to a hub-and-spoke model to achieve reduction in logistics costs by nearly half and reduce congestion on the highways. Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport Highways & Shipping, speaking at a curtain-rais...
Confidence can be described as a belief in one's ability to succeed. Confident people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter only because they exert so much influence within themselves. They innovate, speak their mind, and propel themselves forward toward bigger and better things. One has to strike a healthy balance, as with too much of confidence one can stumble into unforeseen obstacles, but having ...
Kolkata- India -born vision scientists Raunak Sinha and Mrinalini Hoon, who call themselves as a 'scientist couple', recently made comparisons of the physiological properties of fovea and peripheral retina and pushed the frontiers of neuroscience to better understand vision. This is a recent breakthrough in understanding how the most important aspects of our vision work at a cellular level. This work illustrate...
BRICS nations are on their way to establish open investment policies that are non-discriminatory, transparent with predictable conditions for investments and may decide to avoid protectionism in relation to cross-border investments. They also have a proposal to set up a common payment gateway to promote e-commerce among BRICS nations and to promote e-commerce among the five leading emerging econ...
China is gravely concerned over Dalai Lama’s Arunachal visit and there are threats, through the Chinese Media, that it will cause serious damage to ties with India; as in China’s opinion the 14th Dalai Lama is by no means a spiritual leader but a Tibetan separatist. Critics in China opine that it is a critical period for China and India to further upgrade bilateral ties and the recently picked up good momentum f...
Pakistan had launched a crackdown on the terror outfit Jama’at-ud-Da’wah (JuD) and affiliates and put Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and his four accomplices Abdullah Ubaid, Zafar Iqbal, Abdur Rehman Abid and Qazi Kashif Niaz under house arrest in Lahore in January, 2017; under pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)’,only to fulfil international obligations; as JuD, which is part of the Lash...
Yes, there is Public Liability Insurance Policy for accidents involving LPG and every consumer of LPG cylinders from any of the authorized dealers is automatically covered under such policy that provides coverage under various headings. Public Liability Policy for Oil Industries is Third Party Insurance cover for persons and property that every Oil Marketing Company is mandatori...
Barren Island Volcano, India’s only active volcano is erupting once again and spewing smoke, lava and ash as observed closely, by scientists from CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO), Goa; on January 23 & 26, 2017. This Barren Island volcano is located 140 km Northeast of Port Blair, in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, had been dormant for more than 150 years but had started er...
Successful people learn from their triumphs and their mistakes and they never stop learning as they are always changing themselves for the better. The obstacles that come in the way can either be an excuse for your failure or can make the story behind your success. Our attitudes play a great role in our life. Every task is an opportunity to practice and improve and skills required to complete the task are always...