Some of India’s hospitals are set to upgrade the quality of their services by leveraging space technology in emergency and critical care departments. In 2016, many healthcare organisations approached ISRO to learn the best practises in its quality domain and implement them in their emergency and critical care departments to reduce mortality rates. These included Association of Healthcare Providers (India) (AHPI), Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM), Society for Emergency Medicine India (SEMI), and the Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organisations (CAHO), according to ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). Healthcare professionals have also expressed a keen interest in learning about how…
Author: Editor's Desk, Tattva News
Switzerland Bright colours and prominent logos boldly mark the location of India’s base on Davos’ main street this year, as the country touts its pro-business and foreign investment drive. Inside a pavilion on the Swiss Alpine resort’s Promenade street beneath an “India @ Davos 2022” logo, the federal government served up treats including ‘masala chai’ tea, ‘samosa’ snacks and other spicy delicacies. Six Indian states have their own lounges, which are housed in what are generally high street stores. Food was being cooked at the government’s base by a team of 15 chefs flown in from India, along with 450…
2021 saw a worrying rise in executions and death sentences as some of the world’s most prolific executioners returned to business as usual and courts were unshackled from Covid-19 restrictions, Amnesty International said today in its annual review of the death penalty. At least 579 executions were known to have been carried out across 18 countries last year—a 20% increase on the recorded total for 2020. Iran accounted for the biggest portion of this rise, executing at least 314 people (up from at least 246 in 2020), its highest execution total since 2017. This was due in part to a…
Captain Abhilasha Barak has become the first woman combat aviator in the Indian Army. She has been awarded the coveted ‘wings’ along with 36 Army pilots by the director-general of the Army Aviation during a ceremony held at Combat Army Aviation Training School in Nashik. “Captain Barak became the first woman officer to join the Army Aviation Corps as combat aviator after successful completion of the combat Army aviation course,” an official said. She hails from Haryana and was commissioned into the Army Air Defence Corps in September 2018. The combat aviator is the daughter of Col S. Om Singh…
The Enforcement Directorate today conducted raids in at least seven locations in Maharashtra targeting Shiv Sena Minister Anil Parab in connection with a money laundering case. Raids were conducted in Mumbai, Pune and Ratnagiri. Parab is minister for transport in the Uddhav Thackeray government. In Mumbai, ED officials arrived at Parab’s family home in Bandra and official residence at Marine Drive. The Enforcement Directorate action pertains to the allegations of purchase of a parcel of land at Dapoli by Parab in 2017 for a consideration of Rs 1 crore, but it was registered in 2019. Some other charges are also…
Geneva- based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) has strongly condemned the murder of journalist Subhash Kumar Mahato, who hailed from Begusarai locality of Bihar in central India on May 20. The global media safety and rights body also demanded punishments under the law to all four identified gunmen who targeted Subhash (27) outside his residence in Sankhu village. Local media outlets in Patna reveal that Subhash used to report on sand, land and liquor mafias in his locality for a cable news channel. On the fateful night he was returning home from a friend’s house along with some relatives. The culprits…
Union Minister Anurag Thakur today applauded the role played by Indian media during the trying times of COVID19 pandemic. Delivering his speech at the 17th Asia Media Summit via video conferencing the Minister said that Indian media ensured that the Covid awareness messages, important government guidelines and free consultations with doctors reach everyone in the country. That Doordarshan and All India Radio significantly delivered on their mandate of public service was proved by their role in setting the trend through prompt coverage, ground reports and organizing programmes on public health, he said. Speaking on the other pandemic, of misinformation, the Minister…
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has welcomed the conclusions of the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, but called on governments to redouble their efforts to eliminate the scourge of child labour. The Conference, held in Durban, South Africa, the 15 to 20 May, adopted a resolution known as the “Durban Call to Action” that includes calls to: make decent work a reality for adults and young people above the minimum age for work by accelerating multi-stakeholder efforts to eliminate child labour, with priority given to the worst forms of child labour;end child labour in agriculture;strengthen…
Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was awarded life imprisonment by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in a case related to terrorism and secessionist activities in the Kashmir Valley in 2016-17. Malik was produced before Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh amid high security, and awarded the life sentence, apart from a fine of Rs 10 lakh. The National Investigation Agency had sought the death penalty for Terrorist Yasin Malik, who had previously pleaded guilty to all charges in a terror funding case, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). The defence has requested life imprisonment rather than…
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) announced on May 24 that Secretary of MoHFW, Mr. Rajesh Bhushan, has been named head of committee B at the 75th World Health Assembly. Committee B mainly discusses administrative and financial matters of the World Health Organization. This year, Committee B will discuss and prepare reports on a number of important topics, including health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory including east Jerusalem and Syrian Golan, the World Health Organization’s budget for the years 2022-2023, sexual exploitation prevention, and WHO reforms, among other topics. The World Health Organization’s aims and priorities are…