Millions of patients are harmed each year due to unsafe health care worldwide resulting in 2.6 million deaths annually in low-and middle-income countries alone. Most of these deaths are avoidable. The personal, social and economic impact of patient harm leads to losses of trillions of US dollars worldwide. The World ... Read More »
After intensive testing, WhatsApp started rolling out the video calling feature in November last year across all platforms globally. Now, after six months of the feature being live, WhatsApp confirms that India is the top country in the world to use the video calling feature. In India, a total of ... Read More »
Washington: Actor Ashton Kutcher, who, during his 2012 visit to India, had met sex trafficking victims and has been batting for their cause for long, says there is a need to understand the importance of using technology as a tool to eradicate slavery. Kutcher testified on his anti-sex trafficking efforts ... Read More »
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has quit President Donald Trump’s council of business leaders, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. Mr. Kalanick wrote to his employees that he’d spoken with Mr. Trump on Thursday to “let him know that I would not be able to participate on ... Read More »
Demonstrators in the Polish capital Warsaw have renewed their protest against government plans to restrict journalists’ access to parliament. Crowds gathered outside the presidential palace on Saturday morning and then marched to parliament. Inside parliament itself, opposition MPs have continued a sit-in that began on Friday. Polish Prime Minister Beata ... Read More »
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen proposed Thursday that children of illegal immigrants be refused places in public school as part of tough program to restrict state services. “I’ve got nothing against foreigners, but I say to them: ‘If you come to our country, don’t expect that you will ... Read More »
A landmark report released Thursday by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy places drug and alcohol addiction alongside smoking, AIDS and other public health crises of the past half-century, calling the current epidemic “a moral test for America.” “The reason I’m issuing this report is I want to call our country ... Read More »
US President Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who had earlier called him a “son of a whore”. Mr Duterte was responding to the US president’s promise to raise the issue of drug-related extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at their meeting. The Philippine leader, ... Read More »
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Wednesday urged the Election Commission to declare the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections early, by January-February next year. Ms. Mayawati argued that the family feud within the ruling Samajwadi Party and the “jungle raj” in the State would lead to “chaos” in governance in the ... Read More »
The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EDT): 4:40 p.m. Republican Donald Trump is lashing out at Hillary Clinton as he campaigns in Iowa, declaring her “pretty close to unhinged.” Trump told supporters at a Friday rally in Des Moines that, “if Hillary Clinton becomes president, you will ... Read More »
Even as the death toll in the current wave of devastating floods in Assam claimed 26 lives and affected 37 lakh people in the state, union home minister Rajnath Singhon Saturday in Guwahati called for finding long-term solutions to tackle the recurring problem. “Short-term measures are temporary. What we require ... Read More »
Notwithstanding a long time of fervent pupil protests that reached a height last fall, the president of Yaleannounced on Wednesday that the university would preserve the name of a residential universityhonoring the nineteenth-century politician and white supremacist John C. Calhoun. The president, Peter Salovey, additionally said the university could call ... Read More »
