Day: December 20, 2024

At least 44 commuters have been confirmed dead and 76 others were injured in two separate road accidents in east Afghanistan’s Ghazni province on Wednesday night, a local official reported Thursday.

More often than not, patients and even nurses and doctors are skipping steps that help paint an accurate portrait of someone’s blood pressure — how someone sits and positions their arm, whether they just had a cup of joe or chitchat with their practitioner during the measurement, and other factors can produce readings that are higher or lower than normal blood pressure.

India’s pharma industry is considered to be the world’s third largest by volume, and in FY 2023-24 the pharmaceutical market has been valued at $50 billion, said Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers Anupriya Patel.

India’s coal imports declined by 3.1 per cent to 149.39 million tonnes (MT) during April-October period of FY 2024-25 from 154.17 MT in the same period of the previous year due to the increase in domestic production, according to an official statement issued on Thursday.