LIFESTYLE & LEISURE


IANS 14 February 2020
In a significant order, the Maharashtra Authority for Advance Ruling (MAAR) rejected a plea by a five-star hotel contending that food and beverages served in a restaurant away from the hotel premises should attract 5 per cent GST instead of 18 per cent.   A bench consisting of P....

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TruthInAdvertising.org 14 February 2020
Tranont distributor touts MLM's nutritional supplements as a prevention for the Coronavirus.   “If China Couldn’t contain the Coronavirus do you think Hawaii can?” a distributor for Utah-based nutritional supplements MLM Tranont and Hawaiian resident poses to members of a “Health &...

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IANS 12 February 2020
Chinese health authorities Wednesday said it received reports of 2,015 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 97 deaths from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.   With this, the overall confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland...

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IANS 10 February 2020
The death toll due to the novel coronavirus in China on Monday increased to 908, with 40,171 confirmed cases, the country's National Health Commission said.   Until midnight, 6,484 severe cases had been recorded while 3,281 people, who had recovered from the illness, had been...

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Moneylife Digital Team/IANS 10 February 2020
South Korean film "Parasite" beat Hollywood biggies like "Joker", "1917" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" to win the best picture Oscar that was given a musical touch by artistes such as Elton John and Eminem.   #Oscars Moment: @ParasiteMovie wins for Best Picture.

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IANS 07 February 2020
The death toll due to the fast-spreading novel coronavirus outbreak in China has increased to 636, authorities said on Friday, while the number of confirmed cases also rose to 31,161.   Chinese health authorities said it received reports of 3,143 new confirmed cases of novel...

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TruthInAdvertising.org 06 February 2020
The FDA does not approve supplements. We repeat: The FDA does not approve supplements. Not only does the FDA not approve supplements, the federal agency warns that while supplements can be beneficial to your health, substituting them for prescription drugs, combining them or taking too much of...

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Aarti Tikoo Singh (IANS) 05 February 2020
Bhutan's lower house on Monday passed a legislation that makes it mandatory for visitors from India, Bangladesh and the Maldives to pay a fee of Rs 1200 per day for its "sustainable development" from July this year.   The Himalayan kingdom, which is concerned about its ecology and...

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IANS 05 February 2020
In the 2020-21 Union Budget statement, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced an additional 5 per cent health cess on imports of medical devices. In the current scenario, India imports over 70 per cent of its medical device, with a fourth of them coming from the...

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IANS 04 February 2020
People who use a smartphone for texting while walking are twice as likely to have an accident or near miss than taking a call or listening to music, a new study suggests.   According to the findings, published in the journal Injury Prevention, smartphone texting is linked to...

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IANS 03 February 2020
Chinese health authorities on Monday said that the death toll in the country due to the fast-spreading deadly novel coronavirus has increased to 361, with 17,205 infected cases.   The National Health Commission said that it received reports of 2,829 new confirmed cases of and 57...

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IANS 03 February 2020
The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued a fresh travel advisory on Monday urging people to refrain from visiting China.   "Travel Advisory further revised informing the public to refrain from travel to China and that anyone with travel history in China since January 15,...

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Keith Cousins (Columbia Journalism Investigations) 03 February 2020
Prompted by press reports, including a recent article by Columbia Journalism Investigations and ProPublica, a US House subcommittee announced that it would examine the use of dating apps by minors and the prevalence of sex offenders on such sites.   A US House subcommittee chair

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IANS 31 January 2020
More than 6,000 passengers were trapped on an Italian cruise ship after a woman fell ill with a suspected case of the deadly novel coronavirus, it was reported on Friday.   The Costa Smeralda vessel is currently being held near Civitavecchia, 35 miles of Rome, after a Chinese woman,...

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IANS 31 January 2020
Meanwhile on Friday morning, China's National Health Commission said that 1,527 patients remained in critical conditions, and 15,238 people were suspected of being infected with the virus, Xinhua news agency reported.   A total of 171 people had been discharged from hospital after...

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IANS 30 January 2020
Amid the threat of the novel coronavirus, China has asked Tesla to temporarily shut down its Shanghai factory, a move that may "slightly" impact the profitability of the Elon Musk-led electric car company in the first quarter of 2020, top company executives have said.   In a call with...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2020
Fox Star Studios on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that it would give credit to acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal's lawyer, Aparna Bhat, for her contribution to the film during the screening of Chhapaak overseas, says a report from Bar & Bench.   Apart from adding the...

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While the world is worried about containing the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the situation in China, where it was first detected, remains grim to say least. The Chinese New Year holiday has been extended by another 10 days. No school, office, restaurant, mall, vegetable market or...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 January 2020
The outbreak of a mysterious novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is spreading rapidly. The World Health Organization (WHO) is sending a team of international experts to China to assess the novel coronavirus outbreak situation and guide global counter-epidemic effort. The number of people confirmed...

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Even though I wish to believe that I had something to do with this beautiful story, because my introduction of the specialist niche carmaker Xavier de le Chapelle to an Indian business group that had plans to make a sports car in India, was the genesis of this story, it is perhaps just a fond...

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