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Global News
19-07-2025
- Health
- Global News
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See more sharing options Send this page to someone via email Share this item on Twitter Share this item via WhatsApp Share this item on Facebook Global News Morning BC brings you regular Health Matters segments because your health and your family's health are of utmost importance. We speak with experts about a wide range of health topics and delve into what it means to be healthy and how to lead a healthier lifestyle. Here are some of the recent segments. 4:09 Health Matters: Building a summer first aid kit 3:57 Health Matters: When and how to use an Epipen 5:08 Health Matters: Self-screening concussion tool for adolescents 4:02 Health Matters: Summer water safety tips 6:12 Health Matters: New miscarriage care guidelines 4:50 Health Matters: Men's mental health 5:22 Health Matters: June is stroke awareness month 4:07 Health Matters: Period Promise campaign
Time of India
18-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
AIDCF urges Centre to reject TRAI's proposal to reduce DTH license fee
All India Digital Cable Federation ( AIDCF ) has written a letter to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, reiterating its concerns around the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's proposals to reduce the license fee paid by DTH operators . In February 2025, TRAI reiterated its earlier proposal, made in the Recommendations on License Fee and Policy Matters of DTH Services , dated 21 August 2023, to reduce the DTH license fee from the current 8 per cent to 3 per cent, with a further plan to phase it out entirely by 2026-27. In their letter this June to the Ministry, AIDCF argued that any reduction or waiver of license fee for DTH operators, despite their reliance on free spectrum, would deepen this inequity between the cable TV operators and DTH operators. "This move would also further exacerbate the loss to the public exchequer," they argued in the letter to the government. Currently, spectrum is allotted to DTH operators in Ku band on administrative basis - Free of cost. According to AIDCF, the DTH operators are paying license fee because spectrum was bundled with license fee on AGR in order to avoid initial capex burden on the sector. In their letter, AIDCF also argued that DTH operators already enjoy structural and commercial advantages over cable TV operators. "Unlike DTH operator's free spectrum, Cable TV operators incur substantial cost over ROW (Right of Way charges) which is up to Rs 3,000 per pole per year besides permission charges to be paid to local authorities for overhead and underground cables. The Cable TV operators also incur a CAPEX of Rs 8 lakh per km for underground cabling besides annual and regular maintenance of Overhead and Underground Cabling of those deployed cables," the letter read. Additionally, for the acquisition of each customer, a Cable TV multi-system operator (MSO) and local cable operator (LCO) have to incur approximately Rs 5,000 per customer as capital expenditure, while DTH operators face minimal incremental capital expenditure spending for new customers, and in addition, no sunk infrastructure costs in case of churn, AIDCF noted. "To ensure fairness and prevent further regulatory arbitrage in favour of DTH operators, the license fee on DTH services should not be reduced or eliminated. Instead, the regulatory framework should include mechanisms to recover the full cost of the spectrum assigned to DTH. Such measures would align with principles of equity, sustain government revenue, and maintain a level playing field across service providers," the AIDCF letter read. Any reduction in the license fee for DTH operators will not only destabilise the market but also jeopardise the livelihoods of nearly 10 lakh people directly dependent on the cable TV industry, cable operators asserted, reiterating their demand to "reject" the TRAI recommendation to reduce or eliminate the DTH license fee.
Time of India
24-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Media Matters sues to block FTC probe over Musk's X boycott claims
Media Matters, a Washington, DC-based liberal advocacy group, said there is no basis to accuse it of coordinating a boycott, and that the FTC's demands have chilled its ability to publish articles on the agency and Musk. "The Court should put an end to the latest effort by the Trump Administration and Elon Musk's government allies to punish, intimidate, and harass Media Matters for publishing reporting they do not like," the group said. Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Tired of too many ads? Remove Ads Media Matters asked a court on Monday to block the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's probe into whether media watchdogs coordinated advertising boycotts, calling it retaliation for the group's criticism of Elon Musk , a major donor to Donald Trump's presidential FTC demanded Media Matters hand over communications with other groups that evaluate misinformation and hate speech and documents related to lawsuits where Musk 's social media platform, X, has accused some groups of orchestrating advertiser Matters, a Washington, DC-based liberal advocacy group, said there is no basis to accuse it of coordinating a boycott, and that the FTC's demands have chilled its ability to publish articles on the agency and Musk."The Court should put an end to the latest effort by the Trump Administration and Elon Musk's government allies to punish, intimidate, and harass Media Matters for publishing reporting they do not like," the group FTC probe, first reported by Reuters on May 22, marked an escalation in U.S. government scrutiny into whether groups like Media Matters helped advertisers coordinate to pull ad dollars from X after Musk bought the social media site formerly known as Twitter in Matters said in its lawsuit on Monday that the court should block the request, as it did similar investigations by Republican attorneys general in Texas and Missouri.X sued Media Matters in 2023, accusing the organization of defaming it in an article that said ads for major brands had appeared next to posts on X that touted far-right extremist Matters has denied the allegations, and sued X earlier this year, accusing it of abusive, costly and meritless lawsuits to punish the group for its reporting on advertising on X after Musk purchased the Media Matters said it found advertisements by IBM, Apple, Oracle and Comcast's Xfinity placed alongside posts touting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party."X initiated a vendetta-driven campaign of libel tourism, spanning three jurisdictions in three countries, all arising from the same conduct: Media Matters' use of X's platform in accordance with X's Terms of Service and its truthful reporting on the results," the complaint said.
Deccan Herald
19-06-2025
- Health
- Deccan Herald
Workers are exposed to higher air pollution in community kitchens
The chefs, and those involved in serving food, cleaning and supportive staff spend considerable time in the community kitchen and thus are exposed to higher concentrations of Particulate Matters (PM).
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Air Cargo Demand to Slide From Prior Forecasts, IATA Says
Air cargo demand for 2025 is going to fall short of initial expectations, one industry body says. Although the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said in December that it expected air cargo demand to grow by 6 percent in 2025, the lobbying group representing 340 airlines is scaling back those projections. More from Sourcing Journal China-to-US Air Cargo Falls Off a Cliff as Tariffs Spur Charter Cancellations Inditex Gets Bangladesh's Inaugural Shipment on New Air Cargo Route JFK Airport's New $270M Cargo Hub Opens Amid Customs Clampdown 'A 6 percent growth forecast for 2025 will not be what you see in two weeks' time,' said Andrew Matters, director of sustainability and economics at the IATA, to delegates at the CNS Partnership Conference in Miami on Wednesday. That number already was a big step down from the 11.3 percent increase in cargo tonne-kilometers (CTKs) measured by IATA in 2024. That percentage was largely boosted by the flurry of e-commerce packages that flooded the U.S. throughout the year, as well as capacity restrictions in ocean shipping tied to the Red Sea crisis. Thus far in 2025, numbers haven't reflected that 6 percent growth would be in reach. Global air cargo demand increased 4.4 percent year over year in March, according to last month's IATA data. This followed a 0.1 percent demand contraction in February, the first such decline in demand since July 2023. Kicking off the year, January saw demand inch up 3.2 percent, IATA expects to reveal its updated projection for air cargo's annual growth at its annual general meeting in New Delhi from June 1-3. 'If you go back not too long ago, we were running at a double-digit growth rate which peaked at about 14 percent. Now, as everybody here knows, a growth rate of double digits is not sustainable,' said Matters at the conference. 'We've talked about all that has happened since then and, unsurprisingly, what we've seen more recently is moderation, back to something more sustainable.' President Donald Trump's 145-percent tariffs on Chinese goods had started to do a number on air cargo demand by April, furthering the decline. Before the tariffs were scaled back for 90 days, e-commerce air cargo shipments in late April from China to the U.S. dropped roughly 50 percent from the two-week period the year prior, according to freight forwarder Dimerco. Multiple Chinese air carriers had been canceling freighter services before the tariff situation changed. IATA hasn't released its April figures yet, but they are expected to reflect the same headwinds. 'Given the downside risks to the outlook that have increased substantially, and the downgrades to global economic activity, I think you can appreciate the direction forecasts are going to go when we see some new numbers,' Matters said. The IATA's initial forecasts also called for cargo yields to remain stable in 2025, as capacity constraints were initially projected to counteract the impact of falling jet fuel prices. Thus far, Matters said yields 'are a bit lower than in the past couple of years' for the first few months of 2025. In the first two months of the year, air cargo yields sank. They dropped 9 percent month over month in January, before falling again 6.1 percent sequentially in February. At the time, this was a 12-month low in air freight rates. Yields bounced back up 6.6 percent in March, likely as front-loading ahead of the tariffs crunched capacity and drove a monthly cargo demand rebound. The 90-day tariff reduction may help with getting a short-term spike in air cargo demand, capacity and rates. The global Baltic Air Freight Index calculated by air freight rate market data platform TAC Index gained 1.5 percent in the week to May 12, likely due to the cancellations ahead of Monday's announcement to scale back the duties. Judah Levine, head of research at Freightos, observed in a Tuesday weekly update that the tariff relief may entice some e-commerce volumes back to air cargo as it reduces the duty burden on low-value goods. But don't expect the massive bullwhip effect of cargo that is occurring out at sea. 'With the interim agreement keeping de minimis eligibility suspended for Chinese goods, and with formal entry filing costs often exceeding the value of many e-commerce shipments, it seems unlikely that this 90-day pause will have as strong an effect on air cargo as it may on ocean freight,' Levine said. Despite the downgraded outlook amid the geopolitical uncertainty, the IATA's Matters said the fundamentals for air cargo remain the same as they did in December. 'We now have this disruption that we have to overlay on top of those forecasts, and that's going to bring changes,' said Matters. 'Fundamentally, we started this year as an industry in good shape, with a positive outlook, and a lot of those factors remain to this day.' Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
