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The government will also recruit 6,100 teachers in government schools and fill 689 vacancies in the forest department.
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Frequent use of mobile phones, which emit electromagnetic radiation, can lower sperm concentration and total sperm count.
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Arindam Bagchi has been appointed India's permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) and other international organisations in Geneva
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A human rights activist from Gilgit Baltistan has highlighted coercive measures employed by Pakistan to commit human rights violations in the occupied region
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The combination is expected to create a business with more than $5 trillion in total invested assets and sustainable value opportunities, the statement said.
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By region, Latin America topped the list with 39 journalists killed, followed by Europe with 37 victims, Asia 30, Africa seven and North America two, according to the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC).
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Geneva [Switzerland]: ‘Every day there are at least one or two women who commit suicide’, said a former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament on Friday, highlighting the lack of opportunity and ailing mental health that is taking a toll on Afghan women. This revelation came during a rare urgent debate on the woman’s rights […]
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Geneva: Switzerland secured their first win of the UEFA Nations League campaign and turned Group A2 on its head with a 1-0 win against Portugal in Geneva on Sunday. Haris Seferovic’s goal was timed at 57 seconds, the fastest-ever in the UEFA Nations League. With this win, Switzerland have claimed victory in their last three […]
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Geneva: The WHO on Thursday said that 14.9 million people were killed either by COVID-19 directly or due to the pandemic’s impact on health systems and society, with the global health agency estimating that India had 4.7 million fatalities. In New Delhi, India strongly objected to the use of mathematical models by the World Health […]
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Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning against a new mutant ‘XE’ variant of Omicron, that may be more transmissible than any strain of Covid-19 seen before. This new variant is a recombinant strain, meaning it is a mutant hybrid of the two previous versions of the Omicron variant, BA.1 and BA.2, […]
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The talks are expected to focus on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rising tensions in Ukraine, as well as arms control, cybersecurity and climate change.
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In 2019, more than 700,000 people died of suicide, one in 100 deaths, which was more than HIV, malaria, wars or homicide, the world body said in a statement issued on Thursday.
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In a statement on Friday, the WHO said that based on available data the review team found no increased risk of blood clotting conditions in people who received the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine.
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"WHO is aware that some countries have suspended the use of AstraZeneca vaccines, based on reports of blood clots in some people who received doses of the vaccine from two batches. This measure was taken as a precaution while a full investigation is finalized," Tedros
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I had a constructive call with Mihail Murashko (Mikhail Murashko), Russia's Health Minister, about the Covid19 response globally & in Russia, as well as about the Sputnik V vaccine & the WHO Emergency Use Listing process for vaccines.
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Initial results from France, Germany and several other countries have shown that trained sniffer dogs are able to recognise people with Covid-19 infections.
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India this week announced that it will send COVID-19 vaccines under grant assistance to Sri Lanka and seven other countries - Bhutan, the Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Seychelles, Afghanistan and Mauritius.
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The WHO had granted emergency use validation for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on December 31, 2020, opening the door for countries to expedite their own regulatory approval processes to import and administer the vaccine.
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While many countries rely on their own regulatory systems for vaccine approvals, some countries with weak system depend on WHO's nod to a great extent for rolling out their national vaccination programmes.
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The 40-million-year-old skeleton, some 120 centimetres (nearly four feet) long, is expected to fetch between 60,000 and 80,000 Swiss francs