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Supreme Court Monthly Digest- October 2024 With Statute And Subject Wise Index

Live Law

Advocate Supreme Court deprecates practice of litigant engaging new lawyer to reargue case after court expressed dissatisfaction on merits. Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India v. Delhi International Airport, 2024 LiveLaw 812 Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 Section 11 - Arbitration Clause in Public Premises Disputes – Applicability of the Public Premises Act, 1971 vis-à-vis the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, …

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6 days, 19 hours ago

Strengthening the Cybersecurity Skills Gap in Southern California

LA Times

For more than three decades, digital security company ESET has shielded organizations and governments worldwide from cyberthreats. “Threat intelligence services provide data feeds that allow cybersecurity teams to make informed decisions about potential risks and attacks, and to take the necessary measures to detect and respond to them, automatically or through further investigation.” ESET offers AI-powered solutions that are underpinned …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Tax Monthly Digest: October 2024

Live Law

Kerala High Court Strikes Down Rule 96 of CGST Rules Retrospectively, Finds Them Ultra Vires To CGST Act The Kerala High Court struck down Rule 96 of the Central Goods and Service Tax Rules holding that it was ultra vires to the Section 16 of the Integrated Goods and Service Tax Act and was manifestly arbitrary. Condonation Of Delay Application …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

BPaLM Regimen Is the New Ray of Hope for Drug-Resistant TB

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Patients of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the state will soon get a new regimen, which is expected to bring down the cost and also the time of treatment from 20 months to six. BPaLM regimen, a novel treatment method for Multi-DrugResistant Tuberculosis includes a new anti-TB drug called pretomanid, which has earlier been approved and licenced for use in India …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Health ministry approves shorter, more effective treatment for multi-drug-resistant TB

Hindustan Times

The Union health ministry has approved the shorter, less toxic, and more effective treatment regimen — BPaLM— against the multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis under its National TB Elimination Program. “While traditional MDR-TB treatments can last up to 20 months with severe side effects, BPaLM regimen can cure the drug-resistant TB in just six months with high treatment success rate,” the health ministry …

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4 months ago

Eliminating TB by 2025 looks near impossible

Hindustan Times

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. The latest WHO Global TB Report reveals that India has the world’s largest TB epidemic; at 2.6 million, the country accounts for the highest number of TB cases as well as multi-drug resistant cases. A study from Mumbai highlighted an unacceptably long average delay between a …

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5 months, 1 week ago

TB remains a major killer disease despite use of antibiotics: Kerala expert

New Indian Express

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Dr Vinay Nandicoori, director of CSIR-CCMB and a leading microbiologist, said that tuberculosis has remained as the number one killer among all infectious diseases, despite the clinical use of over 20 antibiotics and BCG, a century-old vaccine. Dr Nandicoori, a J C Bose Fellow, said that the gradual rise in the emergence of increasingly drug-resistant strains and HIV-TB co-infection …

5 months, 1 week ago

How climate change is rewriting the rules of extreme storms

BBC

How climate change is rewriting the rules of extreme storms Nasa/Matthew Dominick Hurricane Beryl was the first category five storm to form in June at the start of the Atlantic hurricane season The behaviour of the world's most powerful storms is evolving. As climate change increases temperatures, that extra moisture makes a difference – but the effect is small compared …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Experts developing immune-enhancing therapies to treat TB: Study

India TV News

Experts are developing revolutionary immune-enhancing medicines known as host-directed therapies, which employ the body's immune system to target TB, to tackle even drug-resistant strains of the illness. "Mycobacterium tuberculosis have evolved a remarkable ability to manipulate the human immune response and undermine antimicrobial effector functions in host immune cells," explains Assoc Professor Brighenti. Standard anti-TB treatment involves daily administration of …

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8 months ago

Absence of full drug-susceptibility data for TB patients can result in amplifying resistance: study

The Hindu

In presumptive multi-drug resistant tuberculosis cases, whole genome sequencing revealed that pre-extensively drug-resistant TB was present in 50.83% of cases, while MDR-TB was found in 15.5% with nearly equivalent proportions among men and women, found a study conducted by an IIT Mumbai start-up in collaboration with Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, sheds light on TB dynamics in India and is …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Gross mismanagement: The Hindu Editorial on TB drug shortages and India’s national TB programme

The Hindu

April 10, 2024 12:15 am | Updated 01:30 pm IST With less than two years left to achieve the ambitious goal set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018 to “eliminate” TB in India, the pharmacy of the Global South is once again struggling to treat patients with drug-sensitive TB. Just seven months ago, there was an acute shortage of …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

TB challenge needs a multi-focal approach

Hindustan Times

An increase in the number of tuberculosis cases notified in India in 2023 over 2022 underscores the rigour of the efforts to shrink the pool escaping the TB control programme’s radar. The better capture of cases can be credited to the private sector’s impressive jump in performance, as well as states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar bettering their record. India’s …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Buy your car with a credit card, save 4-11% on costs

Live Mint

Imagine buying a car worth ₹12 lakh and getting cashback worth two flight tickets to Singapore. After reaping the benefits, the 31-year-old recently guided his brother to buy a car using credit cards and earned about 6% worth of rewards. Funding a car purchase with credit cards is an attractive option because of the potential rewards it offers on the …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Valentine Day gifts ideas: Headphones and speakers are sure to charm

Hindustan Times

Valentine's Day celebrates love and affection. Specifications of JBL C100SI Wired In-Ear Headphones in Black: JBL Pure Bass Sound One-button multi-function remote Integrated microphone for hands-free calls Angled buds for a comfortable fit Wired in-ear design Reasons to buy Reasons to avoid Superior JBL Pure Bass Sound for immersive audio experience Wired design may limit mobility for some users Convenient …

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1 year ago

Improved drug regimens for TB to cut treatment time

The Hindu

This November, at The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2023, there was much optimism, as it seemed that there were finally tools available to fast-track work on multiple aspects of TB control. Four, new improved drug regimens that could cut treatment time for drug resistant tuberculosis by up to two thirds, were the primary source of this optimism. According …

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1 year, 2 months ago

The people vying for Liberia’s presidency on October 10

Al Jazeera

President George Weah, who is seeking a second six-year term, is up against 19 other candidates, on Tuesday. Also in the running is Liberian People’s Party’s Tiawan Gongloe, a renowned human rights lawyer and professor of law who served as the country’s solicitor general during the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf administration. The former president became Africa’s first elected female leader in 2006, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Is there a TB drugs shortage in India? | Explained

The Hindu

The story so far: TB drug shortage began last year when Rifampicin — a medicine used for treating drug-sensitive TB — was not available in many parts of India. But in the same release, it also said that “in rare situations, States were requested to procure few drugs locally for a limited period by utilising the budget under National Health …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Scientists identify mutations in DNA for early diagnosis of drug resistant bacteria for TB

The Hindu

Tuberculosis is a treatable disease, but drug resistance is now a major public health concern exacerbated by the emergence of multi and extensively drug-resistant TB. If long treatment, higher drug toxicity, and costly drug treatment make the MDR and extensively drug-resistant TB challenging to treat, a group of scientists led by CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology director Vinay Kumar …

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1 year, 8 months ago

After high card additions in February, what are the triggers for SBI Card stock?

Live Mint

SBI Cards and Payment Services Ltd has been reporting steady growth in its credit cards outstanding instead of new card additions. According to data from the Reserve Bank of India, SBI Card saw the highest new credit card additions of around 300,000 in February. In terms of overall credit cards outstanding, SBI Card grew 2% sequentially in February while HDFC …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Explained | Bedaquiline, India’s anti-tuberculosis fight, and a patent battle

The Hindu

The story so far: On March 23, the Indian Patent Office rejected an application by pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson to extend its patent on the drug bedaquiline beyond July 2023. The rejection opens the door for drug manufacturers to produce generic versions of bedaquiline, which are expected to be more affordable and to contribute to India’s goal of eliminating …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Explained | India’s UPI push

The Hindu

The story so far: On January 10, the National Payments Corporation of India paved the way for international numbers to be able to transact using UPI. Addressing theinfrastructural and technological changes required to support such payments, he said, “Currently, all the internal systems as well as ecosystem players such as banks, NPCI, etc only understand India-based mobile numbers for UPI …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Making UPI Viable For Both The Public And The Facilitators

Live Law

Unified Payments System was launched by the National Payments Corporation of India with the aim of integrating the payment mechanisms of India. However, this lack of a transaction fee on UPI platforms has become a bone of contention between the Finance Ministry and the Payment Council of India, which represents the digital payment aggregators operating in India. For the same, …

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2 years, 1 month ago

A new target found to combat AMR Salmonella

The Hindu

The rapid and unselective use of traditional antibiotics gives rise to the emergence of drug resistant phenotype in typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars, which has increased the difficulties in curing Salmonella-induced food-borne illnesses worldwide. A recent study carried out by our group showed that outer membrane porins of Salmonella Typhimurium play an essential role in the survival of the bacteria …

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2 years, 4 months ago

UPI payments to be charged? Finance ministry responds

India Today

The central government has clarified its position on reports claiming that it may levy additional charges on UPI payments. The tweet also said that the cost of recovery has to be met through other means, and the government has provided financial support for the digital payments ecosystem in the country. Although the paper did not only relate to UPI transactions, …

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Supreme Court Monthly Digest- October 2024 With Statute And Subject Wise Index

Strengthening the Cybersecurity Skills Gap in Southern California

Tax Monthly Digest: October 2024

BPaLM Regimen Is the New Ray of Hope for Drug-Resistant TB

Health ministry approves shorter, more effective treatment for multi-drug-resistant TB

Eliminating TB by 2025 looks near impossible

TB remains a major killer disease despite use of antibiotics: Kerala expert

How climate change is rewriting the rules of extreme storms

Experts developing immune-enhancing therapies to treat TB: Study

Absence of full drug-susceptibility data for TB patients can result in amplifying resistance: study

Gross mismanagement: The Hindu Editorial on TB drug shortages and India’s national TB programme

TB challenge needs a multi-focal approach

Buy your car with a credit card, save 4-11% on costs

Valentine Day gifts ideas: Headphones and speakers are sure to charm

Improved drug regimens for TB to cut treatment time

The people vying for Liberia’s presidency on October 10

Is there a TB drugs shortage in India? | Explained

Scientists identify mutations in DNA for early diagnosis of drug resistant bacteria for TB

After high card additions in February, what are the triggers for SBI Card stock?

Explained | Bedaquiline, India’s anti-tuberculosis fight, and a patent battle

Explained | India’s UPI push

Making UPI Viable For Both The Public And The Facilitators

A new target found to combat AMR Salmonella

UPI payments to be charged? Finance ministry responds