Month: February 2025

What the ‘moral distress’ of doctors tells us about eroding trust in health care

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I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions. Consider a typical case: A 6-month-old child has suffered a severe brain injury following cardiac arrest. A tracheostomy, ventilator and feeding tube are the only treatments keeping him alive. These intensive…

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India’s services sector growth sees slowest pace of growth in over two years in January: PMI

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India’s services sector lost growth momentum in January 2025, although the PMI remained well above the 50-break-even level. File photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu India’s services sector activity expanded at the slowest pace in over two years in January amid softer increases in sales and output, a monthly survey said on Wednesday (February 5,…

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Rupee falls 9 paise to 87.16 against US dollar in early trade

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The rupee traded in a narrow range and depreciated 9 paise to 87.16 against the US dollar in early trade on Wednesday (February 5, 2025) , as global trade war has fuelled risk aversion among investors. Forex traders said the rupee is trading with a negative bias over global trade war as market participants mulled…

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Markets trade higher in early trade on fresh foreign fund inflows

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Image for representative purpose | Photo Credit: The Hindu Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty began the trade on a positive note on Wednesday (February 5, 2025) amid fresh foreign fund inflows and a firm trend in the U.S. markets. The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex climbed 151.6 points to 78,735.41 in early trade. The NSE Nifty…

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How beggar-thy-neighbour policies can make global trade come to a standstill

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For representative purposes. | Photo Credit: iStockphoto Beggar-thy-neighbour policies refer to protectionist economic policies adopted by governments that are aimed at benefiting a country’s economy at the expense of other countries. A trade war in which a government imposes heavy tariffs and strict quotas on the import of foreign goods into the country is the…

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Allocation for cotton in Budget ‘insufficient’, say farmers

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Cotton bales stacked in a godown in Adilabad. Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: S. Harpal Singh Cotton farmers in Maharashtra are seeking major changes in terms of technology, and increased allocations in the Union budget to fix the problem of falling productivity. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated ₹500 crore for the…

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Scans of seemingly empty space reveal black holes not far from earth

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Astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole named Gaia BH3 hiding close to the earth, the third of its kind. All three were discovered by the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope, which has been constantly monitoring the motions of billions of stars in our galaxy since 2013. Black holes are fascinating to non-scientists and astronomers…

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