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Australia Deploys Anti-Semitism Police Taskforce After Attack On Synagogue
Australia is launching a federal police taskforce targeting anti-Semitism, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, days after an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue.
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Top Medical Body Suggests Not More Than 74 Hours Work Week For Medics, Weekly Off Days
Excessive duty hours pose risks to the physical and mental health of medics and also compromise patient safety, an NMC taskforce said while recommending that resident doctors work no more than 74 hours a week and get a day off every week.
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Disney Creates Taskforce to Explore AI Applications Across Verticals, Bring Cost Cutting Measures
Walt Disney has created a task force to study artificial intelligence and how it can be applied across the entertainment conglomerate, even as Hollywood writers and actors battle to limit the industry's exploitation of the technology.
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Rishi Sunak's New Task Force To Go After "Vile" Child Abusers
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday condemned the political correctness which has prevented action against "vile" criminals behind the sexual abuse of children and young women, as he unveiled plans for a new task force to go after such gangs
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Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act Passed as EU Moves to Rein in Big Tech; Enforcement Concerns Remain
EU lawmakers have approved landmark rules on Tuesday, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), both aimed at reining in Big Tech firms like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. However, concerns remain over the ability of the EU to enforce these rules, due to limited resources available to regulators. The DMA will for...
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India, Australia To Establish Taskforce On Qualifications Recognition
The taskforce seeks to deliver a mechanism for expanding education qualification recognition between Australia and India by the end of the year, with implementation to take place in 2023.
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Thailand Imposes More Restrictions As Omicron Cases Surge
Thailand will extend the suspension of its quarantine waiver programme and bring in new restrictions after a jump in new coronavirus cases linked to the Omicron variant, the government's COVID-19 taskforce said on Friday.
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Unplanned Vaccination Can Promote Mutant Strains: Health Experts To PM Modi
A group of public health experts, including doctors from AIIMS and members from the national taskforce on COVID-19, have said that mass, indiscriminate and incomplete vaccination can trigger emergence of mutant strains
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Delhi Metro Should Not Resume Immediately: AIIMS Covid Taskforce Chief
Dr Naveet Wig, chairman of AIIMS COVID Taskforce, on Sunday said that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation should not resume its operation immediately. He recommended that the metro should run at 33 per cent occupancy in its initial weeks of operation.
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Britain Free Of Covid By August, Says UK Vaccine Task Force Chief: Report
The new coronavirus will no longer be circulating in Britain by August, the government's departing vaccine taskforce chief Clive Dix told the Daily Telegraph on Friday.
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Sunder Pichai, 2 Other Indian-Americans On Covid Global Taskforce Panel
Three Indian-American CEOs Sunder Pichai from Google, Punit Renjen from Deloitte, and Shantanu Narayen from Adobe have joined the steering committee of the Global Task Force on Pandemic Response, which is overseeing an unprecedented corporate sector
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‘Britcoin’: UK Sets Up Task Force for Digital Currency Backed by Bank of England
Chancellor Rishi Sunak jokingly tweeted that the UK digital currency may be called Britcoin, whenever it is released. A special task force from HM Treasury and Bank of England has been created just for exploration of a potential UK CBDC (central bank digital currency) purpose. In an official statement, Bank of England says, “The Government and th...
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Ireland To Limit AstraZeneca Covid Shot To Over-60s
Ireland's vaccine taskforce on Monday recommended the AstraZeneca coronavirus jab be limited to those aged over 60, following European reviews of evidence linking the shot to rare blood clotting events.
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How To Get Vaccinated Against Covid: AIIMS Chief Answers Big Questions
With news coming in of a drastic increase in numbers of Covid cases across the country, the government has opened up the vaccination process to the private sector, a process that could begin on March 1. In an interview to NDTV's Vishnu Som on Left, Right and Centre, Dr Randeep Guleria, the Director of Delhi's AIIMS, who is a part of the taskforce t...
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Delhi To Set Up 1,000 Booths For Vaccinating "Up To 1 Lakh People Daily"
The national capital is gearing up for the novel coronavirus vaccination drive and plans to set up 1,000 booths across the city where up to 1 lakh people could get vaccinated daily in phase one, a member of the state government's COVID-19 taskforce said on Monday.
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Australia Deploys Anti-Semitism Police Taskforce After Attack On Synagogue
Australia is launching a federal police taskforce targeting anti-Semitism, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, days after an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue.
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Top Medical Body Suggests Not More Than 74 Hours Work Week For Medics, Weekly Off Days
Excessive duty hours pose risks to the physical and mental health of medics and also compromise patient safety, an NMC taskforce said while recommending that resident doctors work no more than 74 hours a week and get a day off every week.
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Disney Creates Taskforce to Explore AI Applications Across Verticals, Bring Cost Cutting Measures
Walt Disney has created a task force to study artificial intelligence and how it can be applied across the entertainment conglomerate, even as Hollywood writers and actors battle to limit the industry's exploitation of the technology.
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Rishi Sunak's New Task Force To Go After "Vile" Child Abusers
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday condemned the political correctness which has prevented action against "vile" criminals behind the sexual abuse of children and young women, as he unveiled plans for a new task force to go after such gangs
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Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act Passed as EU Moves to Rein in Big Tech; Enforcement Concerns Remain
EU lawmakers have approved landmark rules on Tuesday, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), both aimed at reining in Big Tech firms like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. However, concerns remain over the ability of the EU to enforce these rules, due to limited resources available to regulators. The DMA will for...
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India, Australia To Establish Taskforce On Qualifications Recognition
The taskforce seeks to deliver a mechanism for expanding education qualification recognition between Australia and India by the end of the year, with implementation to take place in 2023.
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Thailand Imposes More Restrictions As Omicron Cases Surge
Thailand will extend the suspension of its quarantine waiver programme and bring in new restrictions after a jump in new coronavirus cases linked to the Omicron variant, the government's COVID-19 taskforce said on Friday.
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Unplanned Vaccination Can Promote Mutant Strains: Health Experts To PM Modi
A group of public health experts, including doctors from AIIMS and members from the national taskforce on COVID-19, have said that mass, indiscriminate and incomplete vaccination can trigger emergence of mutant strains
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Delhi Metro Should Not Resume Immediately: AIIMS Covid Taskforce Chief
Dr Naveet Wig, chairman of AIIMS COVID Taskforce, on Sunday said that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation should not resume its operation immediately. He recommended that the metro should run at 33 per cent occupancy in its initial weeks of operation.
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Britain Free Of Covid By August, Says UK Vaccine Task Force Chief: Report
The new coronavirus will no longer be circulating in Britain by August, the government's departing vaccine taskforce chief Clive Dix told the Daily Telegraph on Friday.
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Sunder Pichai, 2 Other Indian-Americans On Covid Global Taskforce Panel
Three Indian-American CEOs Sunder Pichai from Google, Punit Renjen from Deloitte, and Shantanu Narayen from Adobe have joined the steering committee of the Global Task Force on Pandemic Response, which is overseeing an unprecedented corporate sector
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‘Britcoin’: UK Sets Up Task Force for Digital Currency Backed by Bank of England
Chancellor Rishi Sunak jokingly tweeted that the UK digital currency may be called Britcoin, whenever it is released. A special task force from HM Treasury and Bank of England has been created just for exploration of a potential UK CBDC (central bank digital currency) purpose. In an official statement, Bank of England says, “The Government and th...
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Ireland To Limit AstraZeneca Covid Shot To Over-60s
Ireland's vaccine taskforce on Monday recommended the AstraZeneca coronavirus jab be limited to those aged over 60, following European reviews of evidence linking the shot to rare blood clotting events.
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How To Get Vaccinated Against Covid: AIIMS Chief Answers Big Questions
With news coming in of a drastic increase in numbers of Covid cases across the country, the government has opened up the vaccination process to the private sector, a process that could begin on March 1. In an interview to NDTV's Vishnu Som on Left, Right and Centre, Dr Randeep Guleria, the Director of Delhi's AIIMS, who is a part of the taskforce t...
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Delhi To Set Up 1,000 Booths For Vaccinating "Up To 1 Lakh People Daily"
The national capital is gearing up for the novel coronavirus vaccination drive and plans to set up 1,000 booths across the city where up to 1 lakh people could get vaccinated daily in phase one, a member of the state government's COVID-19 taskforce said on Monday.
