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Business Standard
26-05-2025
- Automotive
- Business Standard
Balkrishna Inds drops after weak Q4 outcome
Balkrishna Industries dropped 5.97% to Rs 2501 after the company's standalone net profit fell 24.70% to Rs 362.09 crore while net sales rose 2.75% to Rs 2,746.59 crore in Q4 March 2025 over Q4 March 2024. Profit fore tax fell 24.97% year-on-year to Rs 475.39 crore in Q4 March 2025. EBITDA for Q4 stood at Rs 703 crore, up 1% YoY. The EBITDA margin came in at 24.8%, lower than 25.9% in Q4 FY24. For the full year, the company's standalone net profit rose 13% to Rs 1,628 crore while net sales rose 11.98% to Rs 10,412.88 crore in the year ended March 2025 over the year ended March 2024. PBT rose 14% to Rs 2,156 crore in FY25. EBITDA rose 16% to Rs 2,682 crore in FY25 over FY24. EBITDA margin stood at 25.3% in FY25, higher than 24.8% in FY24. The company's standalone net cash from operating activities stood at Rs 1,753.22 crore in FY25, lower than Rs 2,052.45 crore in FY24. The company announced plans for a phased entry into the premium Passenger Car Radial (PCR) and Commercial Vehicle Radial (CVR) tyre segments, with an initial focus on the domestic replacement market. The pilot launch for CVR tyres is scheduled for Q4 FY26, followed by a gradual scale-up. The PCR tyre pilot will commence in Q3 FY27, with a similar gradual ramp-up. Following the announcement, a foreign brokerage downgraded Balkrishna Industries' rating from "buy" to "neutral" and reduced its price target to Rs 2,644 from Rs 3,242, citing higher risks due to the companys diversification into more competitive segments. Balkrishna Industries is engaged in the business of manufacturing and selling of "off-highway tyres" (OHT) in the specialist segments such as agricultural, industrial & construction, earthmovers & port, mining, forestry, lawn & garden and all terrain vehicles (ATV).
STV News
01-05-2025
- Health
- STV News
Mosquitoes discovered as far north as Shetland in Scotland-wide study
As the Scottish summer draws closer many will be dreading the return of midges, however, research has found mosquitoes are reaching as far north as Shetland. It comes after members of the public were urged to share images of mosquitoes and bites in May 2024 as part of a project by scientists at the University of Glasgow. Sightings of mosquitoes were sent to the Mosquito Scotland team every month in the last year, with reports peaking in the spring and summer, but also continuing in cooler months right up to December. Mosquito Scotland is a collaborative project between the University of Glasgow, the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR), the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). Martin Shields University of Glasgow researchers launching a citizen science tool to research mosquitos in Scotland. From L to R Dr Georgia Kirby and PhD student Meshach Lee with the mosquito trap. The team received over 700 reports of mosquitoes from across Scotland, including from Dumfries and Galloway to the Shetland Isles. The sighting in Shetland became the northernmost recording of the insect in the UK. While most of the 21 different mosquito species present in Scotland don't bite people, the study found that several species can be source of nuisance biting, indicating that human exposure to the insects is higher across the country than is commonly thought. Mosquitoes are a natural part of Scottish ecosystems, and the study is aiming to understand their biodiversity and role in it. It comes after researchers at the University of Glasgow said last year that mosquitoes found in Scotland could pose a future risk of spreading disease. Mosquitoes are known to carry diseases, with the World Health Organization (WHO) estimating that about 219 million people contract malaria from the insects each year globally, resulting in 400,000 deaths. Although mosquitoes do not currently pose any infectious disease risk to humans in Scotland, their bites can cause itching, discomfort and local swelling. The research team want to raise awareness that people can be exposed to mosquito bites in Scotland, and provide guidance on simple precautions to prevent this. Dr Georgia Kirby, the researcher running the citizen science survey, said there were several areas of Scotland where there were lots of reports of bites but very few photos of the culprits. 'We had suspected that midges or clegs could be responsible, but in our follow-up investigations we invariably found that these locations were swarming with mosquitoes – proving that people in Scotland are good at recognising them and distinguishing them from more familiar insects,' she said. 'Most of these sites were areas of dense woodland, which is a key habitat for several aggressive human-biting mosquito species.' Professor Dominic Mellor, consultant in Veterinary Public Health at Public Health Scotland, said the project is playing a 'vital role' in understanding the species. 'In particular, the citizen science aspects are providing detailed information, previously lacking, about the presence and diversity of mosquito species that are being found across Scotland,' he added. 'Such information is invaluable in helping us understand and prepare appropriately for potential risks to public health that might arise as a result of climate change.' Get all the latest news from around the country Follow STV News Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country
The Guardian
23-04-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Pandemics, pathogens and being prepared: why the work to identify emerging threats never stops
Prof Emma Thomson is someone who knows a thing or two about pandemics. As the recently appointed director of the Medical Research Council, University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) and a World Heath Organization consultant, Thomson is one of the country's leading virus experts. 'We used to think that pandemics would occur maybe once in our lifetimes. Now, it's definitely within the next few years. It could even be tomorrow,' she says. But, Thomson says, 'amazing' advances in technology, including genetic sequencing, mRNA vaccines and artificial intelligence (AI), are boosting the world's ability to deal with these threats, even as travel, urbanisation and the changing climate make pandemics much more likely. The key will be sustaining those capacities and making sure they are available everywhere. Global leaders look likely to finally agree an accord on pandemic preparedness in May at the World Health Assembly in Geneva – minus the US, which has withdrawn from the process. An earlier deadline was missed amid wrangling about what poorer countries could expect from richer nations' pharmaceutical companies in return for access to their data and cooperation. Thomson said the world was 'probably more prepared than we were in 2019' but with quite significant vulnerabilities. 'I can travel from Glasgow to Uganda in 12 hours – and back – and there's a lot of that going on. 'If we also look at road infrastructures, for example, in Africa, you see that there's this fantastic improvement in transport infrastructure, which is great, and it's associated with better lives that people lead. But we also have to prepare ourselves for what that can bring.' Cases of bird flu in US cattle and an ongoing international mpox emergency centred on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have recently captured attention. Concerns on both fronts are justified, says Thomson, with any sustained transmission of avian influenza in humans 'potentially very dangerous'. And while mpox could be solved with vaccines already, the issue is getting those jabs to the right places at the right time. More worrying is what could emerge left field. 'If you had asked a scientist 20 years ago, 'are coronaviruses going to cause a problem?', they would probably have laughed at you and said that coronaviruses cause a mild cold.' Then came Sars, Mers, and Covid-19. Similarly, the study of retroviruses was 'a really neglected field' before the advent of HIV. Thomson trained in medicine and parasitology in Glasgow, later specialising in infectious diseases and completing a PhD in London and Oxford. She was awarded an OBE for her work on the steering committee of the Covid-19 Genomics UK (Cog-UK) consortium. The world-leading programme sequenced millions of samples from people ill with the virus to track changes and identified the Kent variant, later called Alpha, in late 2020. That level of sequencing is 'obviously' not sustainable outside of a major ongoing pandemic, she says, but surveillance with a more targeted approach is vital. In 2022, she was part of a team that, using sequencing techniques, identified an adenovirus as the cause of a mystery global outbreak of severe hepatitis in young children. The level of surveillance of potential threats varies considerably between countries, says Thomson. She is currently part of a project setting up wastewater surveillance systems in Ugandan hospitals, schools and transport hubs. Similar initiatives are under way in the UK. 'Sewage, wastewater, is a very good place to look for emerging viruses – and other things, like antimicrobial resistance,' says Thomson. Sign up to Global Dispatch Get a different world view with a roundup of the best news, features and pictures, curated by our global development team after newsletter promotion Thomson was speaking from Uganda, where an international team was launching a $5.5m (£4.1m) study into the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus. The African country has already experienced an outbreak of Sudan Ebola virus this year, and Thomson says its detection illustrates the importance of surveillance and research. The first documented case in that outbreak was found because the mortuary where their body was taken 'was part of a study evaluating the value of sequencing samples from people that had died unexpectedly'. Thomson is excited about the potential of new technologies, many of which will be discussed on 23 April at the UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference. A colleague at the CVR is using AI to predict what shape of proteins a virus will have, based on its genetic sequence 'and that's a huge advance, and it will help us with vaccine design 'in silico': on your computer'. Should a new pandemic begin, she says, 'I would hope that those technologies will be there to help us. But what worries me is that what you really need is not just me tinkering away in a lab in the UK, but that there's a widespread global resilience, so that scientists in other countries, like Uganda for example, can also do that.' That is particularly important in parts of the world with very high biodiversity – [such as] Central and South America, the African region and Asia, she says. 'The next pandemic may well come from there. [That's] not to say it won't come from the UK, but it's far less likely.' Pathogens already adapted for jumping from other animals into humans 'are sitting there waiting', she says. 'And as our population extends into high biodiversity regions, the risk of a jump into humans is very high. And then we could transport it very rapidly, all around the world.'
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Black box of ambulance jet that crashed in Philly wasn't recording audio, likely hadn't worked for years: NTSB
The cockpit voice recorder, known as the "black box," from a plane that crashed and left seven people dead soon after takeoff from a Philadelphia airport didn't record the aircraft's final moments, investigators said in a preliminary report released Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report into the Jan. 31 crash of a medical Learjet 55 bound for Missouri that crashed in Philadelphia, killing two pilots, two crew members, 11-year-old pediatric patient Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother and a pedestrian on the ground. More than a dozen others were injured. Kazakhstan Plane Crash Survivors Say They Heard Bangs Before Aircraft Went Down; Putin Issues Statement The crash created a fireball and sent shrapnel flying through a residential neighborhood where the plane crashed. The NTSB said the plane was in the air less than a minute before it went down. During an investigation, officials found the voice recorder below eight feet of dirt and debris. Read On The Fox News App "After extensive repair and cleaning, the 30-minute-long tape-based recording medium was auditioned to determine its contents," the report states. "The CVR did not record the accident flight and during the audition it was determined that the CVR had likely not been recording audio for several years." Murillo was in Philadelphia to receive life-saving treatment for spina bifida, Fox Philadelphia reported. Staffing At Reagan Washington National Airport Air Control Tower Was 'Not Normal' On Night Of Collision: Faa "The plan was to bring them home to live out the rest of her life surrounded with love and with her adoring family," said Susan Marie Fasino of His Wings Ranch, the organization that had been assisting the family the past five years. Investigators determined the Learjet 55 took off at 6:06 p.m. and was headed to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri. The flight traveled southwest and made a slight right before turning left at a peak altitude of 1,650 feet, the report states. The flight was in communication with air traffic control, and no distress call was received, investigators said. It's believed the plane struck a commercial sign during its descent and left behind a 1,400-foot debris field. The plane's enhanced ground proximity warning system, which investigators believe "may contain flight data in its nonvolatile memory," was shipped to the manufacturer to see if data can be article source: Black box of ambulance jet that crashed in Philly wasn't recording audio, likely hadn't worked for years: NTSB
Fox News
06-03-2025
- Health
- Fox News
Black box of ambulance jet that crashed in Philly wasn't recording audio, likely hadn't worked for years: NTSB
The cockpit voice recorder, known as the "black box," from a plane that crashed and left seven people dead soon after takeoff from a Philadelphia airport didn't record the aircraft's final moments, investigators said in a preliminary report released Thursday. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its preliminary report into the Jan. 31 crash of a medical Learjet 55 bound for Missouri that crashed in Philadelphia, killing two pilots, two crew members, 11-year-old pediatric patient Valentina Guzman Murillo and her mother and a pedestrian on the ground. More than a dozen others were injured. The crash created a fireball and sent shrapnel flying through a residential neighborhood where the plane crashed. The NTSB said the plane was in the air less than a minute before it went down. During an investigation, officials found the voice recorder below eight feet of dirt and debris. "After extensive repair and cleaning, the 30-minute-long tape-based recording medium was auditioned to determine its contents," the report states. "The CVR did not record the accident flight and during the audition it was determined that the CVR had likely not been recording audio for several years." Murillo was in Philadelphia to receive life-saving treatment for spina bifida, Fox Philadelphia reported. "The plan was to bring them home to live out the rest of her life surrounded with love and with her adoring family," said Susan Marie Fasino of His Wings Ranch, the organization that had been assisting the family the past five years. Investigators determined the Learjet 55 took off at 6:06 p.m. and was headed to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri. The flight traveled southwest and made a slight right before turning left at a peak altitude of 1,650 feet, the report states. The flight was in communication with air traffic control, and no distress call was received, investigators said. It's believed the plane struck a commercial sign during its descent and left behind a 1,400-foot debris field. The plane's enhanced ground proximity warning system, which investigators believe "may contain flight data in its nonvolatile memory," was shipped to the manufacturer to see if data can be recovered.
