Tag: risk

The timeline for heart disease is sped up in people of South Asian ethnicity, and part of the answer for why may lie with faulty repairs to blood vessel damage, a new Canadian study suggests.Cardiovascular disease affects the heart and blood vessels and can lead to the need for bypass surgery and ...

Dear friends, brothers and sisters,Yesterday, death stood at the door. I survived only because of your love.Asim Sarode, who did not back down even if the broken glass fell to save me from hurt, Vaibhav, our charioteer who risked his life to drive our car, Advocate Shriya who took ...

I will step off the boards of several companies this year. This is because of the SEBI regulation that independent directors can only serve a maximum of two five-year terms as non-executive directors. I will leave with a heightened sense of respect for the calibre and talent of Indian ...

As Israel’s war on Gaza pushes on in its fourth month, fears of regional escalation are growing, with multiple nations and armed groups targeting each other’s territories and common waters, and the United States boosting its military assets in the region. Last week, Iran launched attacks in Syria and Iraq ...

“In Pakistan’s case certainly, Iran has miscalculated by assuming it would not retaliate” out of fear of being dragged into the wider Middle East conflict emanating from the Israel-Gaza war, said Abdul Basit, a senior associate fellow of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological ...

ISLAMABAD —  The United Nations has called for increased humanitarian aid to help tens of thousands of children in western Afghanistan who are suffering in life-threatening winter conditions in the aftermath of a string of devastating earthquakes last October. The U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, issued the warning Monday, 100 ...

Then on Tuesday, Yemen-based Houthi rebels, also backed by Iran, renewed their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co confirmed that the container ship MSC United VIII was hit while en route to Pakistan. It said no injuries were reported. 10:26Yemen’s Houthi fighters behind Red ...

KHOST, Afghanistan: Zubaida traveled from the rural outskirts of Khost in eastern Afghanistan to give birth at a maternity hospital specializing in complicated cases, fearing a fate all too common among pregnant Afghan women — her death or her child’s.She lay dazed, surrounded by the unfamiliar bustle of the ...

KHOST, AFGHANISTAN: Zubaida travelled from the rural outskirts of Khost in eastern Afghanistan to give birth at a maternity hospital specialising in complicated cases, fearing a fate all too common among pregnant Afghan women -- her death or her child's.She lay dazed, surrounded by the unfamiliar bustle of the ...

New Delhi: The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit to be inaugurated by Prime Minister on Tuesday will see intense deliberations on this new technology and work towards consensus-based ‘declaration document’ on approach to AI opportunities and risk mitigation, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Monday. India — ...