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Are human gut microbiota, health and mortality connected? Yes, says new study
A recent study conducted by the University of Turku and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare shed light on the connection between gut microbiota in humans and health and mortality.
Published on May 16, 2021 12:17 PM IST
ANI | , Turku
‘Not getting GST dues, even BJP-ruled states unhappy’: Hemant Soren
Despite the talk about cooperative federalism, Soren, citing his experience as CM over the past year, said that the relationship between the Centre and the state is not healthy
Updated on Dec 28, 2020 04:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ranchi | Vishal Kant
Creating a robust and effective digital media regulatory mechanism
A huge regulatory structure just to monitor content and process the violations seem neither optimal nor prudent.
Updated on Nov 20, 2020 06:36 AM IST
Uday Kumar Varma
J&K’s Covid counts crosses 1 lakh-mark
Around eight months after the first Covid case was reported in the Union Territory, Jammu and Kashmir’s Covid tally crossed the one lakh-mark on Wednesday. The UT recorded nine deaths and 507 fresh coronavirus infections, taking the Covid count to 100,351 and death toll to 1,558.
Updated on Nov 12, 2020 01:05 AM IST
HT Correspondents, Srinagar
Kanpur doctors studying Italian model to check possible second wave of Covid-19
As many as 740 people have died in Kanpur due to Covid-19 and related complications in the last four months.
Updated on Nov 05, 2020 06:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Kanpur | Haidar Naqvi
J&K: October registers lowest Covid death toll in 3 months
Data indicates that October witnessed a 38% decrease in fatalities as compared to September and 10% decrease as compared to August.
Updated on Nov 01, 2020 10:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times/Srinagar | Ashiq Hussain, Srinagar
Pune hospitals find plasma therapy effective in moderate Covid-19 patients
ICMR study has found that this therapy is not as promising in bringing down the mortality rate
Updated on Oct 26, 2020 03:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | Steffy Thevar
Air pollution increases the risk of severe Covid-19, hospitalisations, warn experts
With pollution levels on the rise in Delhi and the entire Indo-Gangetic plains, hospitals in the city are preparing for a potential increase in the number of hospitalisations from the novel infection.
Updated on Oct 24, 2020 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Anonna Dutt, New Delhi
India ranks 94 in Global Hunger Index: Full list here
The Global Hunger Index is a tool for comprehensively measuring and tracking hunger at global, regional, and national levels.
Updated on Oct 17, 2020 05:01 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Susmita Pakrasi
India ranks 94 in Hunger Index; experts blame poor implementation, siloed approach
The neighbouring Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan too are in the ‘serious’ category but ranked higher than India in this year’s hunger index. While Bangladesh ranked 75, Myanmar and Pakistan are in the 78th and 88th position.
Published on Oct 17, 2020 02:57 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
High test positivity rate continues to dog Kerala as Covid-19 cases mount
While Kerala still has the lowest Covid-19 mortality rate, the test positivity rate on Thursday was almost double the country’s rate.
Published on Oct 15, 2020 08:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvannathapuram | HT Correspondent
Covid-19 tests in India cross 9 crore: Health Ministry
The health ministry said higher testing across wide regions leads to early identification of positive cases, prompt tracking through efficient surveillance and tracing, and timely and effective treatment in homes/facilities and in hospitals for the severe cases, adding that these measures in tandem eventually lead to lower mortality rate.
Updated on Oct 14, 2020 06:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Susmita Pakrasi
Overconfidence, low testing rate to blame for Covid-19 spike in Kerala, say experts
The state’s test positivity rate (TPR) is almost double the national average (15.6% against the national average of 8.4%) and in the last one week it added more than 50,000 active cases to its tally.
Updated on Oct 12, 2020 05:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | Ramesh Babu | Edited by Sohini Sarkar
Kerala CM Vijayan calls for all-party meeting amid surge in Covid cases
In last one week, the state has reported more than 41,000 cases and the test positivity rate has also gone up to 12.59 but mortality rate is 0.4 per cent, said chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The national test positivity rate is around 8 per cent.
Updated on Sep 28, 2020 08:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent
What’s your life expectancy? This tool lets you find out
The actual number of years a person could expect to live for depends on a range of socio-economic factors, health conditions, climate, etc.
Updated on Sep 28, 2020 08:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa
Covid-19: Maharashtra mortality rate rises over past two weeks
In the past two weeks, the CFR rose to 2.11 and 2.22% respectively, which also resulted in the overall rise in the rate
Updated on Sep 28, 2020 12:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Surendra P Gangan
Viral caseload shoots up in Kerala as it logs more than 40,000 new Covid-19 cases in 1 week
The minister asked people not to lower their guard at this critical point and avoid big gatherings to avoid high mortality rates. She said relaxations during the Onam festivities and the ongoing protest by the opposition parties were the main reasons for the present surge in Covid-19 cases.
Updated on Sep 27, 2020 10:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Thiruvananthapuram | HT Correspondent | Edited by Sohini Sarkar
India’s old-age homes have been successful in staving off Covid-19
Indian old age homes have been able to protect the elderly against the Covid-19 pandemic despite lacking the resources and professional management
Updated on Sep 28, 2020 06:11 AM IST
Jallavi Panchamia and Dileep Mavalankar
MHA officials want UT admin to focus on critically ill Covid patients
MHA officials said in a virtual meeting on Tuesday that while the UT had been successful in keeping mortality rates down, it had to ensure that the toll did not go up even as positive cases increased
Updated on Sep 15, 2020 11:11 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Munieshwer A Sagar, Chandigarh
Covid-19 patients must not be denied beds, provided prompt treatment: Health Ministry to hospitals
Rajesh Bhushan inaugurated a virtual conclave for private hospitals providing Covid-19 treatment in the country organised by the ministry in collaboration with FICCI and AIIMS New Delhi.
Published on Sep 13, 2020 06:19 AM IST
New Delhi | Asian News International| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
Key to a long life lies in this personality trait
Study reveals this factor causes the population to live longer as compared to those living in other societies
Updated on Sep 06, 2020 02:31 PM IST
Washington D.C. [USA] | Asian News International | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz
India conducts over a million tests on three consecutive days
Along with the increase in testing, India has also seen a rise in the number of Covid-19 cases. On Wednesday, 81,934 cases were recorded across the country
Updated on Sep 03, 2020 10:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Anonna Dutt
India conducts over 1.17 lakh Covid-19 testing in last 24 hours: Govt
As experts have suggested that aggressive testing is crucial to control the outbreak, states and Union territories are progressively increasing their testing capacity.
Published on Sep 03, 2020 08:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Susmita Pakrasi
Odisha breaches 1-lakh Covid-cases mark, hopes for decline by mid-September
Odisha officials are worried about the paucity of ICU beds in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
Updated on Aug 30, 2020 04:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | Debabrata Mohanty | Edited by Abhinav Sahay
India’s FY21 GDP to shrink 6%: Barclays
Reserve Bank of India’s Survey of Professional Forecasters on Macroeconomic Indicators released last week showed that GDP may contract 21.5% in the June quarter and 5.8% in FY21 before bouncing back to grow at 7.4% in FY22.
Published on Aug 15, 2020 06:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Asit Ranjan Mishra
Highest single day recoveries; rate improves to 70%
India’s Covid-19 average daily recoveries have been constantly increasing, with the first week of July recording 15,000 daily average recovered cases, which leapt to at least 50,000 in the first week of August.
Updated on Aug 13, 2020 12:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent, New Delhi
Uttarakhand reports biggest single-day jump in Covid-19 deaths; state tally at 8,901
A total of 112 Covid-19 positive patients have died in Uttarakhand till now, with 16 patients dying due to coronavirus, according to the health officials. The rest of the positive patients died due to co-morbidities and other causes, added health officials.
Published on Aug 07, 2020 11:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dehradun | Neeraj Santoshi
Noida: Covid-19 tally rises to 5,806, active cases 906
So far, 4,857 patients have recovered from Covid-19 in Gautam Buddh Nagar, the second highest among districts in UP after Lucknow (6,090), it showed.
Published on Aug 07, 2020 07:54 PM IST
Noida | Press Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
Covid-19 spread reported in new areas but 82% of total cases from 10 states/UTs: Health ministry
Addressing a press briefing, Union health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said 50 districts account for 66 per cent of the total caseload and the Covid-19 case fatality rate has progressively declined to 2.10 per cent, the lowest since the first lockdown was imposed on March 25.
Published on Aug 04, 2020 06:18 PM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India| Susmita Pakrasi
We became complacent, says Kerala CM as Covid-19 tally rises
Kerala , which once seemed to have succeeded in keeping infections under check has been reporting a huge surge in fresh cases of Covid-19 for the past few weeks.
Updated on Aug 03, 2020 05:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com| Edited by Sabir Hussain