BHOPAL: Ministers or bureaucrats associated with the departments of health and medical education being removed after eruption of controversies has become common enough. The BJP government may have completed 13 years in power but the state of affairs in the Hamidia Hospital – city’s biggest government hospital – is the ... Read More »
The Madhya Pradesh government on Friday effected a major reshuffle at the upper echelons of the medical education department soon after chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan conducted a “surprise inspection” at Hamidia Hospital, the teaching facility of the Gandhi Medical College (GMC), Bhopal. Additional chief secretary (medical education) Prabhanshu Kamal ... Read More »
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street traders sometimes root for year-end “Santa Claus rallies,” but on Friday, hardly a creature was stirring as stocks finished slightly higher on the quietest full day of trading in more than a year. Health care companies brought in most of the gains. Major U.S. ... Read More »
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Nine years after the collapse of the U.S. housing market sent shockwaves through the global economy, two European banks have agreed to offer American homeowners and borrowers billions of dollars’ worth of help under a settlement related to the sale of risky securities that helped spark ... Read More »
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — At the brightly lit mall, clothing stores highlight holiday sweaters and big signs tout the sales, while Duquan Allen keeps his expectations in check. Allen, who works full-time cleaning planes at Newark Airport, says his mother doesn’t expect anything big, and he usually gets a hooded ... Read More »
Some of the most important technology of the past year could very well become the story of next year. And the year after that. Such is life at the leading edge of a new frontier. In our regular Geek of the Week feature, innovators and students and tech gurus from ... Read More »
Second World War cipher technology is being built into tiny processors to develop the next generation of ultra-secure bank cards. The concept behind the design of Nazi military coding machines such as Enigma will be used to replace the existing three-digit CVV security number, which is currently found on the ... Read More »
The schematic drawing showing that various factors (e.g., moisture, oxygen, light illumination, applied electric field, etc.) during the operation of MAPbI3 perovskite solar cells can generate iodine, which leads to degradation of solar cells. Credit: Image courtesy of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University – OIST While solar ... Read More »
Working in the field of big data and AI means that I see the leading edge advances that come with it. It also means routinely getting freaked out when you think too closely about the possibilities and implications of those advances and where they might be taking us. Here are ... Read More »
