Kolkata, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) A crucial meeting between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the junior doctors protesting against the ghastly rape and murder of a lady junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Saturday more or less decided to exempt the goods and services tax (GST) on term life insurance premiums and premiums paid by senior citizens…
Kolkata, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday appealed to junior doctors, over the mobile phone of Chief Secretary Manoj Pant, to withdraw their fast-unto-death agitation in support of their demands…
Seoul, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Unionised workers at Seoul National University (SNU) Hospital, one of the country’s biggest hospitals, have decided to launch an indefinite walkout beginning on October 31 in protest of the government’s health…
Khartoum, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned that over three million people are at risk of cholera in Sudan. “3.1 million people, including 500,000 children under five, are at risk of…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Over 1 billion young people are at the risk of hearing loss globally due to unsafe listening habits, and it is important for policymakers and regulators to develop global standards…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Cancer patients are nearly five times more likely to experience bankruptcy, as financial fallout can follow patients with cancer and their families in the form of lower credit scores and…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) A team of US researchers is pioneering the self-assembly of human liver tissues in low-Earth orbit (LEO) — the area of space below an altitude of around 1,931 kms —…
Kampala, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Uganda reported 49 new mpox cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed infections in the country to 145, according to authorities. The country’s Ministry of Health on Friday said that Kampala,…
Kolkata, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The West Bengal government has sought daily health updates of the junior doctors who had been hospitalised after their condition deteriorated amid the fast-unto-death agitations, both at Esplanade in Kolkata as…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) At least 39 per cent of Indian workforce in India have noticed real benefits from their company’s mental health programmes, a survey said on Friday. Additionally, 48 per cent of…
Chandigarh, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Haryana Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Nayab Saini, in its first meeting on Friday, decided to formally accept the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the sub-categorisation of Scheduled Caste (SC) and…
Abuja, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The death toll from an outbreak of cholera in Nigeria has risen from 359 earlier this month to 378, with suspected cases since the onset in January exceeding 14,000 across the…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The AIDS Society of India (ASI) on Friday urged the government to include HIV self-testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medicine, taken to prevent from HIV, in its policies and programmes…
Kolkata, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The cause of death of Purnima Kandu, a Congress councillor in Jhalda Municipality in West Bengal’s Purulia district, may be poisoning, as per the initial post-mortem report, sources said on Friday….
Abuja, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a historic step in the fight against the deadly disease that has killed thousands of children under the age of five in Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria has rolled out…
Toronto, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) A team of researchers, led by an Indian-origin scientist, has discovered new function of a protein that may treat age-related illnesses. The team from McMaster University in Canada found a previously…
Manila, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Philippines continues to log more leptospirosis cases and deaths, data from the country’s Department of Health (DOH) showed on Friday. From January to October 5, the DOH recorded 5,835 cases,…
Khartoum, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sudan has recorded 2,520 dengue fever cases, including 13 deaths, in five states, its Health Ministry announced in a statement. The infections were reported in the states of Khartoum, North Kordofan,…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) India has the potential to become a science and technology-driven global biomanufacturing hub, the government has stressed. Union Minister of State for Science and Technology (Independent Charge), Dr Jitendra Singh,…