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In a post Covid-19 world, new norms may emerge

The pandemic has not only caused innumerable casualties and grief, but has sent economies on a downward spiral. The only proverbial light at the end of the tunnel is a collective assumption that ‘this, too, shall pass.’




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Public Media serving in the time of a pandemic…

As a member of the Global Task Force for public media, we would like to add our salute to the essential service being provided at this time by public broadcasters around the world. 




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When the atomic dust settles, culture remains… Maralinga Tjarutja premieres on ABC

Maralinga Tjarutja shines a spotlight on the people who have lived on their lands for over 60,000 years. While it’s a story of deep tragedy, it also celebrates their incredible resilience.




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Demand to pick up in second half of 2020: Xiaomi

Xiaomi India head Manu Jain has said that there may be an anti-China sentiment among people at play, but expects things to normalise over time and doesn’t see any meaningful impact on its business, with smartphone demand expected to pick up only in the second half of 2020.




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Tata Capital loan EMI moratorium: All the terms, conditions and charges

Here are the charges, terms and conditions of availing the three-month equated monthly instalment (EMI) moratorium from Tata capital financial services. These are details as mentioned on Tata Capital's website for financial services.




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IDBI Bank loan EMI moratorium: Terms and charges

If you are an IDBI Bank customer, here are the details of the bank's EMI moratorium facility. These details are as per the bank's website.




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Should you opt for three-month moratorium for debit card EMIs?

If you have converted your debit card payments to EMIs to buy a phone, a consumer durable or converted your e-commerce purchases to EMIs, you can avail of the three-month moratorium. Here is a look at how this will work.




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5 things to know about 3-month EMI moratorium offer by RBI

The 3-month EMI moratorium offered by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) includes all term loans like home loans, personal loans, credit card dues etc.




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Yes Bank moratorium: RBI Board Member explains why it took so much time

Yes Bank moratorium: RBI Board Member explains why it took so much time





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Wipro, Azim Premji Foundation commit Rs 1,125 cr to tackle coronavirus crisis

Wipro, Azim Premji Foundation commit Rs 1,125 cr to tackle coronavirus crisis





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Need to implement containment plan uniformly across the country: Lav Agarwal, MoHFW

Need to implement containment plan uniformly across the country: Lav Agarwal, MoHFW





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COVID-19 impact: OYO cuts 25% of fixed pay of employees; some staff sent on leave

COVID-19 impact: OYO cuts 25% of fixed pay of employees; some staff sent on leave





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Not that bearish anymore as most problems are easily solvable: Samir Arora

Not that bearish anymore as most problems are easily solvable: Samir Arora





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Coronavirus impacts: No crisis within the banking system, says SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar

Coronavirus impacts: No crisis within the banking system, says SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar





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3 deals in 3 weeks: Mukesh Ambani’s plans on track to make Reliance debt-free despite COVID-19 pandemic

3 deals in 3 weeks: Mukesh Ambani’s plans on track to make Reliance debt-free despite COVID-19 pandemic





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Covid-19 crisis: SpiceJet to pay part salaries to 92% of employees, no job cuts

Covid-19 crisis: SpiceJet to pay part salaries to 92% of employees, no job cuts





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SMEs struggle to take off as lack of liquidity, labour, and demand pinch operations

Workers in red zones were also finding it difficult to travel to factories in orange and green zones. Milon Nag, managing director of Pune-based KK Nag Ltd said, “Our factories in rural areas are open. But our managers and all live in Pune and they are unable to reach factories.”




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Oil demand seen steady in 2019 but OPEC supply, trade risks loom: IEA

Oil demand seen steady in 2019 but OPEC supply, trade risks loom: IEA





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'Nothing adverse' in overseas remittance data, says CBDT

“The Directorate of Intelligence & Criminal Investigation (I&CI) of the income tax department during August and September 2019 obtained LRS data from several banks in Mumbai and Delhi and verification of the top 100 cases was undertaken. However, nothing adverse was found,” said the report, which was submitted to SIT probing black money earlier this year.




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Priti Patel launches UK's ‘historic' points-based visa system

The new system will come into force from January 1, 2021 at the end of the transition period after the UK's exit from the European Union (EU) on January 31, which will formally end free movement of people within the economic bloc for the UK as a non-member. The new post-Brexit system, which will apply equally to the EU and non-EU countries like India.




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Road Works / Closures - A6 Upgrade Scheme

A6 CASTLEDAWSON TO RANDALSTOWN DUALLING

A6 Mainline Glenshane Road / Foreglen Road - lane Closure Tamnaherin Rd to Ballyhanedin Rd 

Monday 27 April - 11 May  2020 - Off-peak 09:30 - 16:00

From Monday 2 December 2019 for 10 Months

NEW ROAD LAYOUT - A6 Mainline - Castledawson Roundabout to Brough Road – Phase 05 (Traffic switched onto EB (1 lane) + WB (1 lane))

NEW Bellshill Junction (on-slip’s will be temporarily set-up as ‘Give-Way’) – OPEN

 From Mon 25 February for 12 Months Creagh Hill – Full Closure at Deerpark Junction - from 

Diversion via Deerpark Road, A6 Mainline, Hillhead Road

Temp Traffic Management for the A6D2D scheme  W/C-04/05/20

Mon – Fri   0930-1600 Daily (As required)

  • Two Way traffic control Baranailt Rd to Tamnaherin Rd

Mon to Fri 07:00 to 18:00 Daily-

  • Feeny Rd Haul Crossing
  • A6 Mainline Haul Crossing (near Gulf Rd)
  • Ballyhanedin Rd Haul Crossing
  • Tirbracken Rd Crossing

Continuous –

  • Mavis Rd closure
  • Gulf Rd Closure
  • Altagarran Rd Closure
  • Gortilea Rd Closure
  • A6 Mainline Hard shoulder Closure, West bound and Eastbound, from Foreglen Rd to Gulf Rd
  • Killunaught Rd Closure
  • Derrychrier Rd Closure
  • Closure of climbing lane from Ballyhanedin Rd to Muldonagh-A6
  • Closure of Lane one of climbing lane from Ardmore Rd to the Foreglen Rd -A6
  • Closure of Lane two of climbing lane from Ardmore Rd to the Mavis Rd -A6
  • Closure of Ervey Rd from A6 Glenshane Rd to Birch Rd




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Why Udacity wants employees to remix Taylor Swift, do one-armed push-ups, or play 'Rock Band' blindfolded

Over the past few years, the company has had meditation sessions, K-pop dance routines, and puppy tricks punctuate its weekly, Wednesday-afternoon meeting.




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MSME Schemes: Technology upgradation through the International Cooperation Scheme

The Ministry of MSMEs offers the International Cooperation Scheme which helps fund MSMEs to participate in international exhibitions and events to get access to the latest in technology.




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Top IT trends to embark on a decade of openness and collaboration

As we enter the new decade, the question really is how businesses adopt new capabilities that will help them be agile, customer centric, innovative and cost sensitive at the same time.




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Covid-19: Using AI and data science to combat health pandemics

Tech platforms, telecom companies and governments need to come together at a time like this to work together towards addressing the balance between protecting individual privacy and data sharing that is critical to the public good.




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Top tips to safeguard your network when employees are working from home

The real challenge in the world of employees working from their own homes is not the slack in productivity or the threat of transmission of the virus, but cybersecurity.




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Adequate reserve to deal with $20 billion FCNR redemption

Seeking to allay concerns, the sources said that government is ready to redeem $20 billion FCNR-B deposits as there is adequate forex reserves.




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NRIs/PIOs can now send funds online for Modi govt's flagship schemes like Swachch Bharat, Clean Ganga

Swaraj said this while chairing a meeting of India Development Foundation of Overseas Indians, a trust established to supplement development efforts.




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Boosting wellbeing in a remote work environment: How organizations can promote work-life balance

Every situation brings with it an opportunity, and this situation has brought with it a valuable opportunity for upskilling of complete workforce. Leaders can use online tools for imparting valuable training and upskilling to all their employees.




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There is an odd efficiency to this pandemic

It makes going through the motions feel meaningless and it makes truly important meetings bring people together to solve problems that no individual could solve alone. It makes us feel human. It makes us feel a part of something bigger.




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SCCM Pod-96 PCCM: Acute Hyponatremia in Hospitalized Children

Desmond Bohn, MC, BCH, discusses his editorial, "The Problem of Acute Hyponatremia in Hospitalized Children: The Solution is the Solution," which was published in the November 2008 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. The editorial was in response to an article by P. Alvarez-Montanana et al, published in the same issue titled, "The use of isotonic fluid as maintenance therapy prevents iatrogenic hyponatremia in pediatrics: A randomized, controlled open study." Dr. Bohn is Department of Critical Care Medicine Chief at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2008;9[6]:658) Released: 12/1/08




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SCCM Pod-130 PCCM: Telemedicine in Rural Emergency Departments

Amelia Hopkins, MD, FCCM, discusses her article published in the September 2009 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.




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SCCM Pod-170 PCCM: Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy During ECMO

Matthew Paden, MD, discusses his Pediatric Critical Care Medicine article: Recovery of Renal Function and Survival After Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.




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SCCM Pod-199 PCCM: Stem Cell Transplant Outcomes

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Ranjit S. Chima, MD, lead author of an article published in the November Pediatric Critical Care Medicine




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SCCM Pod-206 PCCM: Glycemic Control in Pediatric Patients

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Eliotte L. Hirshberg, MD.




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SCCM Pod-208 PCCM: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant in Children

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Christine N. Duncan, MD




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SCCM Pod-224 PCCM: Epidemiology Trends in Patients with Severe Sepsis

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Mary Hartman MD, MPH, about her article published in the September Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.




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SCCM Pod-250 Reducing Blood Testing in Pediatric Patients After Heart Surgery: A Quality Improvement Project

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Claudia Delgado-Corcoran, MD, MPH




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SCCM Pod-281 A Survey on the Sequence of Medications for Treatment of Hyperkalemia in the PICU

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Nnenna O. Chime, MD, MPH




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SCCM Pod-327 Does Simulation Improve Recognition and Management of Pediatric Septic Shock?

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Mark C. Dugan, MD, about the article: Does Simulation Improve Recognition and Management of Pediatric Septic Shock, and If One Simulation Is Good, Is More Simulation Better?




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SCCM Pod-349 Implementation of an ICU Bundle in the PICU

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Shari Simone, DNP, about the article, Implementation of an ICU Bundle: An Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project to Enhance Delirium Management and Monitor Delirium Prevalence in a Single PICU, published in the June 2017 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.




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SCCM Pod-355 The Epidemiology of Hospital Death Following Pediatric Severe Sepsis

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Scott L. Weiss, MD, MSCE, about the article, The Epidemiology of Hospital Death Following Pediatric Severe Sepsis: When, Why, and How Children With Sepsis Die, published in the September 2017 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.




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SCCM Pod-399 Risk for Mortality in Critically Ill Children Needing Renal Replacement Therapy

Margaret M. Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Danny Hames, MD, on his article titled: Risk Factors for Mortality in Critically Ill Children Requiring Renal Replacement Therapy, published in the November 2019 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.




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SCCM Pod-404 Population-Based Epidemiology and Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children

Margaret M. Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Rashid Alobaidi, MD, on his article titled Population-Based Epidemiology and Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children published in the January 2020 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.




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Poke Me: The removal of Dhoni from the captaincy of Rising Pune Supergiants is legit

This is not about making a value judgment. Whether the decision is good or bad can only be known at the end of the 10th season of the IPL.




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POKE ME: Government, get out of skilling. Motivate the bureaucracy to create the right ecosystem instead

What we need before Skill India is perhaps a Skill Government mission. And what’s more, in this Budget season, a visionary leader can do this without much fund allocation.




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Poke Me: Does Indian cricket need a behemoth like the BCCI to run the show? No.

In trying to answer this question, the first thing that needs to be done is to define what the BCCI does. What are its primary tasks and objectives?




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Poke Me: The Supreme Court should have taken a more streetwise look before ordering a 'highway prohibition'

For those of us who’ve lived in Dehradun for decades, the Supreme Court order banning sale of liquor on highways, is the cruellest joke you could play on a small town.




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Poke Me: An unreasonable ratio between a company's lowest and highest salary can cause problems

Murthy’s long missive about the pay culture in Infosys echoes the pay reforms debate in advanced economies.




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Poke Me: It may be a mantra, but India’s demographic dividend can become a burden if unattended

India is currently in a sweet spot, with its working-age population expected to grow by a third over the next three decades, at a time when China and Russia will see a fall of over 20% .