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27 Aug

Apollo introduces Halcyon Radiation Therapy System

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In a development that brings new hope to cancer patients in Eastern India, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals launched the advanced Halcyon Radiation Therapy System for optimized image-guided radiotherapy to deliver high quality cancer treatment. The Halcyon system introduced to Eastern India for the first time uses human-centred design to deliver sophisticated, highly targeted cancer treatments at a speed that is up to four times faster than standard technology. The Halcyon Radiation Therapy system’s targeted therapy ensures that damage to healthy tissues surrounding the tumour can be further avoided or minimised, which is of great benefit in cases such as cancer of…

27 Aug

Flipkart and Assam Govt enter into a strategic partnership

editor0 CommentsAssam, BusinessFlipkartAssam

Flipkart signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Assam to promote the state’s local Arts, Crafts, and Handloom sectors by bringing them into the e-commerce fold. The partnership with the Assam Industries & Commerce Department under the Flipkart Samarth program will enable national market access for Assam’s artisans, weavers, and craftsmen, allowing them to showcase their hallmark products on Flipkart’s marketplace. Government of Assam and Flipkart, both will focus on creating avenues to increase business and trade inclusion opportunities for these under-served segments of the society, thereby adding further thrust to the Government’s initiative to build a…

26 Aug

West Bengal Lockdown News date

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Taking further preventive measures to contain the spread of coronavirus, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the biweekly lockdown in her state will continue till September 17. As per the announcement made by her, the lockdown in West Bengal will be observed on September 7, 11 and 12. However, the educational institutes, including schools and colleges, will remain closed in West Bengal till September 20. The Mamata Banerjee-led administration in West Bengal has no issues if local trains and metro rail services are resumed in the state and has even allowed resumption of flight services from…

26 Aug

Amazon Prime Video announced Mirzapur season 2 released date

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Amazon Prime Video announced on Monday that it is going to release the second installment of widely popular original series on its platform, Mirzapur, on 23rd October. The OTT platform, while finally revealing the release date built upon Guddu Pandit’s narration, and the tragic events he has been through in the previous season. Kaleen Bhaiya (played by Pankaj Tripathi) and Guddu Pandit (Ali Fazal) are all set to enthuse your senses craving for an out-of-the-world desi brand of entertainment during the pandemic.

26 Aug

TV Actor Sangeeta Srivastava Passes Away

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TV actor Sangeeta Srivastava passed away on August 25 morning in Mumbai. Who won hearts with her performance in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon which starred Barun Sobti as Arnav Singh Raizada and Sanaya Irani as Khushi Kumaari Gupta in the lead.She was admitted to Kokilaben Hospital. Sangeeta Srivastava was suffering from an auto-immune disease known as vasculitis. This is yet another incident that has shocked the television industry.

26 Aug

GSI testing regional landslide in North-East India

editor0 CommentsNorth EastGSI, TESTING IN HILL AREA

Geological Survey of India is currently testing Regional Landslide Early Warning System in the Darjeeling district, West Bengal and in the Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu. This system will be tested in both these locations for a few monsoon years for validation before making it operational. This information has recently been posted by Shri Prahlad Joshi, the Union Minister in-charge of Coal and Mines, in his social media accounts. Dr Saibal Ghosh, Director GHRM Division Geological Survey of India said that, “Like some other developed countries, where such type of regional landslide early warning model is operational, India will also carry…

26 Aug

Compensation Cess on tobacco products can generate 49,740 crores – Doctors, Economists, Public Health Groups to GST Council

editor0 CommentsNorth EastCompensation Cess, tobacco products

Public health groups along with doctors and economists are urging the GST Council to increase compensation cess on all tobacco products that can provide additional tax revenue of Rs. 49,740 crores. This additional revenue could significantly contribute to the increased need for compensation by different states during the pandemic and to disburse the dues already owed by the Centre. They all are appealing to the GST Council to, as an extra-ordinary measure, to apply the compensation cess on bidis and also increase the existing compensation cess applied on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products during the upcoming meeting of the GST…

26 Aug

CM Mamata Banerjee to starting the district tour again

editor0 CommentsNorth EastMAMATABANERJEE

If anyone is under treatment at the hospital on suspicion of COVID, he will have to leave the hospital if he has no symptoms for three days, the chief minister said. . . . The expanse of Coronavirus will decrease from September Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed such hope in the administrative meeting on Tuesday At the same time, Mamata also hinted that she would visit the district in September to reduce the incidence of the corona, The chief minister said, "According to experts, the speed of corona will decrease in September." We have to go to the district again.…

26 Aug

Earthquake in India-Bangladesh border

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The epicenter was reported 130 kilometers southeast of Bahrampur in Murshidabad and 18 kilometers east of Beledanga. Earthquake at seven in the morning. The epicenter was reported at 8:54 a.m. on the Indo-Bangladesh border. Several districts of South Bengal were shaken. Mild earthquake Nadia Murshidabad in some parts of Burdwan. According to the Meteorological Department, the magnitude of the earthquake was 4.1. At 7:45 in the morning, its source was 10 km deep from the ground. Nadia is located near Murshidabad and Bangladesh border. The epicenter was reported 130 kilometers southeast of Bahrampur in Murshidabad and 18 kilometers east of…

25 Aug

Sands are shifting’: Sanjay Dutt’s wife Maanayata shares pic of their twins with heartfelt note, Trishala Dutt sends her prayers

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‘Sands are shifting’: Sanjay Dutt’s wife Maanayata shares pic of their twins with heartfelt note, Trishala Dutt sends her prayersSanjay Dutt’s wife Maanayata Dutt has shared an adorable picture of their twins from the Ganpati festivities. ‘Sands are shifting,’ she wrote with the photo.Sanjay Dutt’s wife Maanayata Dutt has shared a beautiful picture of their two children, twins Shahraan and Iqra, along with a heartfelt note. Sanjay was diagnosed with lung cancer this month and has been undergoing treatment in Mumbai for now. Sharing the picture of the nine-year-olds, twinning in white ethnic wear and striking the same pose, Maanayata…