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NEW DELHI: An evaluation of 88 clusters, identified by central and state pollution control boards (CPCB and SPCBs) as polluted industrial areas, has thrown up a “bleak picture of air, water and land contamination” in the country, said the Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) State of India’s Environment report 2021, released on Thursday. Referring […]
NEW DELHI: Google will move to a hybrid work week, where most Googlers spend approximately three days in the office and two days “wherever they work best”, according to a note by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. About 20 per cent of Google’s workforce will continue to work remotely after its offices reopen later
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LONDON: KPMG on Thursday announced new flexible working plans to allow its UK staff to work in offices up to four times per fortnight from next month as Britain loosens coronavirus restrictions. The global accountancy firm has followed other corporate giants such as HSBC and Proxima in offering hybrid working patterns to its workforce during
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Most patients testing positive for coronavirus tend to recover under home quarantine. Not all cases of COVID-19 require hospitalization. Home quarantine means the time when a patient, who tests positive isolates himself/herself at home following all precautions and protocols suggested by medical authorities. Those with mild and moderate symptoms are usually advised to follow home
PRATAPGARH (UP): Former Uttar Pradesh advocate general S M A Kazmi was today killed and three others were injured when the car they were travelling in rammed into a tree in Hatigawan area, a senior police officer said here. According to deputy Superintendent of Police S P Tomar, the driver lost control while he swerved
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LOS ANGELES: Nine great apes at the San Diego Zoo – four orangutans and five bonobos – made veterinary history in recent weeks as the world’s first non-human primates known to be vaccinated against Covid-19, zoo officials said on Thursday. One of the recipients was a 28-year-old female Sumatran orangutan named Karen who had garnered
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HONOLULU: Heavy rains are part of the winter wet season in Hawaiian Islands. But the downpours triggering flooding that destroyed homes and bridges and set off mass evacuations on multiple islands this week are also an example of the more intense rainstorms officials and climate scientists say are occurring more frequently as the planet warms.
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NEW DELHI: A clean environment is a basic right of citizens and the plea of non-availability of funds cannot be an excuse for not ensuring it, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has said while rapping the Uttarakhand government over waste disposal dump yards illegally set up on the bank of the Khoh river in Kotdwar.
NEW DELHI: The central government’s Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and its Adjoining Areas has been shut down within five months of its constitution. The commission, which was established by the Centre in October last year, has shut down due to lapsing of the ordinance under which it was set up.
ASCARENE PLATEAU: Over two weeks at sea, the scientists spotted pilot whales and spinner dolphins, orcas and more, but not a single sperm whale had crested the choppy waters of the western Indian Ocean. Then, an underwater microphone picked up a series of unmistakable clicks and squeaks. A large pod of the endangered whales was
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Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India conducting Webinar on “The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021” 12th May, 2021 (Wednesday) The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021, has been promulgated on 4th April, 2021, introducing prepackaged insolvency resolution process, for corporate persons classified as micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). It aims to
Representative Image NEW DELHI: Realtors’ body CREDAI-NCR on Tuesday said it has set up an oxygen concentrator bank and will establish another oxygen cylinder bank this week to help people infected with the coronavirus. The association has airlifted 250 oxygen cylinders from Chennai. CREDAI-NCR announced the ‘Umeed – Win over Pandemic’ initiative to provide immediate
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