Year: 2020

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a release that the tender issued on May 23 for buying body bags was cancelled due to lack of response from eligible vendors.   It had earlier procured 2,200 body bags for BMC-run hospitals as per the Union government guidelines, and had invited, afresh, open Express of Interest (EOI) through its website for buying stitching-less body bags, the BMC said.   In the earlier procurement, the lowest bidder fulfilling all the guidelines was given the contract, it said.   “Notably, the price of…

Amid the ongoing pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a fresh meeting via video conferencing with all the Chief Ministers of the states on June 16 and June 17, said the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).   In a tweet, the PMO confirmed that in a two day virtual meet, states have been divided in two slots   On June 16, PM Modi will interact with Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors of Punjab, Assam, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Goa, Manipur, Nagaland, Ladakh, Puducherry, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya,…

India-born Reuben brothers, who are among the richest businessmen in Britain, have donated 80-million pounds to establish a major new scholarship programme for graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Oxford’s newest college, the university said in a statement.   British billionaire brothers David and Simon Reuben from Mumbai ranked the UK’s second-richest billionaires with a fortune of 16 billion pounds in ‘The Sunday Times” annual rich list, made the “transformational gift” to Park College established by the university last year.   The university said that in recognition of the “historic…

A lung transplant was her only chance for survival,” says Ankit Bharat, MD, chief of thoracic surgery and surgical director of the Northwestern Medicine Lung Transplant Program .Northwestern Medicine in Chicago said the recipient is a Hispanic woman in her 20s. The patient spent six weeks on a ventilator and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.   The patient spent six weeks in the COVID ICU on a ventilator and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a life support machine that does the work of the heart and lungs, the hospital said.   By early…

In this unprecedented situation around 35 people in Noida had to spend three days in the COVID-19 ward of a hospital after they were wrongly tested of Coronavirus by private labs.     According to news reports, the Noida administration has sent notices to these labs. Further, one lab has also been charged in a First Information Report filed by the police.    These 35 people had complained of mild fever, cough and cold. On advice of their respective doctors, they took Coronavirus tests, a probe into the matter revealed. Their…

Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari today announced further extension of the validity date of motor vehicle documents till September this year. Accordingly, the Ministry of RTH has issued an advisory to all States and UTs to this effect.   Earlier, MoRTH had issued an advisory on the 30th March, 2020 to all States and Union Territories wherein it was advised that the validity of Fitness, Permit (all types), Driving License, Registration or any other concerned document whose extension of validity could not or…

Pfizer continues to focus on applying science to successfully make available a vaccine that can help save the lives of millions across the world from this massive pandemic. We in India, have been actively fighting this pandemic by way of our CSR initiatives. As a part of our efforts, we are supporting the State and Central government and other healthcare institutions to bridge the gap and enhance the current healthcare infrastructure for treating the increasing number of COVID-19 cases. Support has also been provided for the frontline healthcare workers and…

Amid ongoing global pandemic and number of increasing deaths daily, New Zealand  declares it has zero remaining cases of coronavirus, Professor Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington has said in comments provided by the country’s Science Media Centre, regarding the expected move to Level 1 restrictions.   New Zealand has no active diagnosed cases of COVID-19 for the first time since 28 February, health officials say.   It has now been 17 days since the country last recorded a new case of the coronavirus.    Ardern…

The Memorandum of Understanding on Indo-Denmark Energy Cooperation between the Ministry of Power, Government of the Republic of India and the Ministry for Energy, Utilities and Climate, Government of the Kingdom of Denmark  to  develop a strong, deep and long-term co-operation between two countries in the power sector on the basis of equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit was signed on 5th June , 2020.   The MoU was signed by Mr. Sanjiv Nandan Sahai, Secretary (Power) from the Indian side and Mr. Freddy Svane, Ambassador of Denmark to India from…

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will undergo the COVID-19 test on Tuesday, as he is down with fever, sore throat and cough since Sunday afternoon. Kejriwal has undergone quarantine, and has had all his meetings cancelled. Officials said that the Chief Minister was feeling unwell since Sunday afternoon and the doctor has advised him to go for COVID-19 test on Tuesday.   He was last seen while briefing the media on Sunday afternoon where he announced measures that hospitals run by the Delhi government and private entities will only treat Delhiites during…