December 17, 2022 05:03 am | Updated 10:08 pm IST - NEW DELHI Breast cancer, by the government’s estimate, is the leading cause of cancer in women in India however it doesn’t qualify as a matter of “national” or “extreme” urgency in the Health Ministry’s reckoning, suggest court filings as part of an ongoing case in the Kerala High Court. …
The government has set up a nine-member advisory council, including Nandan Nilekani from Infosys and National Health Authority CEO R S Sharma, on steps required to design and accelerate adoption of open network for digital commerce. “ONDC aims at promoting open networks developed on open sourced methodology, using open specifications and open network protocols independent of any specific platform,” it …
Amidst a tsunami of demand for medical oxygen, equipment and medicines as India battles a deadly second wave of Covid-19, over 40 nations have offered to assist the domestic effort. On April 29, India received a consignment of 20 oxygen concentrators, 75 ventilators, 150 bedside monitors, 2,00,928 Fabipiravir/Coronavir from Emercom or the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation …