The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India. It is headquartered in New Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 500 Indian newspapers and has about 500 full-time employees as of 1 Jan 2020 including about 400 journalists and 500 part time correspondents in most of the district headquarters in the country..
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Trained Sniffer Dogs May Accurately Detect COVID Infected Airport Passengers: Study
PTI
| Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 10:30 [IST]
Trained sniffer dogs can accurately detect airport passengers infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a study published in the journal BMJ Global Health. This method of detection is likely to be valuable, not only in the early ...
Govt To Launch Programme For Adopting, Providing Nutritional, Treatment Support To TB Patients
PTI
| Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 11:00 [IST]
To achieve the goal of eliminating tuberculosis by 2025, the Government will soon launch a programme as part of which people and institutions can adapt blocks, wards, or even individual patients, and provide nutritional, treatment and vocational support to TB patients. ...
South Africa In New Surge Of COVID-19 From Versions Of Omicron
PTI
| Monday, May 16, 2022, 13:00 [IST]
South Africa is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts. For about three weeks the country has seen increasing numbers of new cases and somewhat higher hospitalisations, but no increase in severe cases ...
FDCI X Lakmé Fashion Week Returns To Mumbai, To Be Held In October 2022
PTI
| Monday, May 16, 2022, 12:50 [IST]
The next season of the FDCI X Lakmé Fashion Week (LFW) will be held on ground in Mumbai from October 12-16, 2022, the organisers announced on May 16. The fashion week is a collaboration between LFW - jointly organised ...
Antibiotics Can Lead To Life-Threatening Fungal Infection Because Of Disruption To The Gut Microbiome: Expert
PTI
| Monday, May 16, 2022, 12:30 [IST]
Fungal infections kill around the same number of people each year as tuberculosis. They mostly take hold in people who are vulnerable because they have a defective immune system caused by an underlying disease, such as cancer, or a viral infection, ...
Calling Men Bald At Work Is Sexual Harassment, Rules UK Tribunal
PTI
| Saturday, May 14, 2022, 10:45 [IST]
Calling a man bald in the workplace falls within the purview of sexual harassment, an employment tribunal in England has concluded. The three-member tribunal, led by Judge Jonathan Brain, had to determine whether a reference to someone's lack of ...
Covid-19 Virus Is Not Viable On Cash Banknotes, Study Finds
PTI
| Saturday, May 14, 2022, 09:51 [IST]
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, becomes almost immediately nonviable if deposited on a cash banknote, according to a study. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests that the use of credit and debit cards over cash ...
Zydus Lifesciences Launches Oral Drug Bemdac For Treating Bad Cholesterol
PTI
| Friday, May 13, 2022, 19:30 [IST]
Zydus Lifesciences on Friday said it has launched in India its Bempedoic acid drug under the Bemdac brand for treatment of uncontrolled levels of bad cholesterol. Bemdac (Bempedoic acid) is a new class of drug which is orally administered and ...
New Computer Model Can Help Assess Covid-19 Impact, Progression In Detail
PTI
| Friday, May 13, 2022, 12:30 [IST]
Scientists have developed an ultra-large-scale computerised model of 1 million to 100 million individuals, closely representative of the Indian population, that they say can help assess the impact and progression of infectious diseases, including COVID-19, at the most granular level. The ...
Active Covid-19 Cases In The Country Dip To 18,604
PTI
| Friday, May 13, 2022, 11:59 [IST]
With 2,841 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,31,16,254, while the active cases dipped to 18,604, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed ...
Diabetes Almost Doubles The Risk Of Death From Covid-19: Study
PTI
| Thursday, May 12, 2022, 11:00 [IST]
People with diabetes were almost twice as likely to die from COVID-19 and nearly three times as likely to be critically or severely ill compared to those without the disease, according to a study. The researchers from the University of Aberdeen ...
About 50 Per Cent Of Women Aged 15-24 Years Still Use Cloth For Menstrual Protection: NFHS-5
PTI
| Thursday, May 12, 2022, 10:15 [IST]
About 50 per cent of women aged 15-24 years still use cloth for menstrual protection, according to the latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS) report, with experts attributing it to a lack of awareness and taboo existing around menstruation. The ...