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Deccan Herald
a day ago
- Business
- Deccan Herald
'Truth hurts, huh?': Grok responds to X user calling Indian-Americans 'cancer'
@doghoppin @tonyrigatonee Based on BLS data, Asian Americans are the most productive: highest median earnings ($1,474/week vs. $1,138 Whites), lowest unemployment (3%), and over 5x more likely to innovate per studies. They drive economic value for society without the drama. — Grok (@grok) July 8, 2025 No, "Asians" in US stats includes Indians, who are actually the top earners among them—median household income over $150K, driving innovation in tech and business. Calling them "cancer" says more about your biases than reality. Truth hurts, huh? — Grok (@grok) July 8, 2025
The Sun
2 days ago
- Health
- The Sun
YSIJ donates medical equipment to Hospital Sultanah Aminah
JOHOR BAHRU: Yayasan Sultan Ibrahim Johor (YSIJ) today donated various medical equipment to Hospital Sultanah Aminah (HSA) here, in an effort to support the hospital's efforts to improve healthcare services. Among the donated items were hospital beds, adjustable sofa chairs, a transport incubator, Basic Life Support (BLS) resuscitation equipment and training manikins. The donation was handed over by the foundation's Trustee Datuk Avinderjit Singh to Johor Health Director Dr Mohtar Pungut. HSAJB Deputy Director I, Dr Redzuan Ab Hamid said the contribution is highly meaningful, especially in enhancing comfort for patients. 'The donation includes new beds which will replace the old and worn-out ones, thereby improving patient comfort,' he told the Royal Press Office (RPO). The event was also highlighted through a post on the official Facebook page of the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, which featured several photos of the handover ceremony. During the same event, a total of 120 care packages containing food and personal items were also distributed to patients in the hospital's West Ward.
Arab Times
2 days ago
- Health
- Arab Times
Kuwait launches 'First Responder Fleet' to boost emergency medical services
KUWAIT CITY, July 10: The Ministry of Health (MoH) on Wednesday officially launched the 'First Responder Fleet' — a strategic initiative designed to strengthen the delivery of emergency medical services across Kuwait, particularly in critical situations and underserved areas. Minister of Health Dr. Ahmad Al-Awadhi inaugurated the project during a ceremony held in Kuwait City, describing the new fleet as a vital extension of the national health strategy aimed at bolstering medical preparedness and response times during emergencies. 'This project is not merely a logistical addition but a tangible embodiment of the state's commitment to enhancing its emergency healthcare infrastructure,' said Dr. Al-Awadhi. 'It reflects our national vision to protect lives and minimize health complications by improving rapid response capabilities.' The First Responder initiative is the result of strategic cooperation between the Ministry's Medical Emergency Department and the General Secretariat of Awqaf. It is designed to ensure swift access to life-saving care, including early resuscitation and first aid, particularly in remote or densely populated areas where response times are often critical. According to the Health Minister, the primary goal is to deploy trained personnel and resources quickly to the site of an incident to assess injuries, provide immediate care, and stabilize patients before they are transferred to a hospital. The fleet will also support field triage operations in the event of major incidents, helping determine the scale of response needed and facilitating effective coordination. The First Responder Fleet currently consists of 28 fully equipped vehicles, strategically distributed based on criteria such as population density, service coverage, and response priority. Al-Awadhi noted that these allocations will be regularly reviewed and updated to maintain optimal operational efficiency. Assistant Undersecretary for Medical Support Services Dr. Abdullah Al-Fars added that the vehicles are staffed by qualified emergency medical technicians and paramedics, all certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS). Each vehicle is outfitted with resuscitation equipment, oxygen supplies, advanced respirators, intravenous fluids, essential medications, and devices to stabilize fractures and monitor vital signs. Dr. Al-Fars explained that the response process begins at the central operations room, where incoming emergency calls are assessed and the nearest First Responder vehicle is dispatched. Upon arrival, the team evaluates the situation, administers necessary care, and prepares a report for follow-up teams or hospital transfer. Representing the Secretary-General of the General Secretariat of Awqaf, Nasser Al-Khedr emphasized the Secretariat's ongoing commitment to collaborating with government agencies on developmental projects. He acknowledged the contributions of donors who have funded such community-serving initiatives through the Endowment Fund for Health Care, which supports projects in accordance with Islamic endowment principles and donor directives. Al-Khedr affirmed the Secretariat's readiness to continue supporting national efforts in enhancing Kuwait's healthcare services, particularly in ways that align with both modern needs and traditional values. The First Responder project marks a significant step in Kuwait's health sector development, reinforcing the country's ability to respond effectively and swiftly to medical emergencies, while upholding the principles of community care and strategic preparedness.
Fibre2Fashion
3 days ago
- Business
- Fibre2Fashion
US unemployment falls to 4.1% as economy adds 147,000 jobs in June
The unemployment rate in the US dropped to 4.1 per cent in June, down from 4.2 per cent in May, as the economy added 147,000 jobs amid the ongoing trade war, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Most job gains were in the state government and healthcare sectors. State government employment rose by 47,000, largely driven by a 40,000-job increase in education. The Federal government sector continued to decline, with a loss of 7,000 positions in June, contributing to a total loss of 69,000 jobs since January, BLS said in a press release on the US' employment situation. US unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 per cent in June, with 147,000 jobs added, driven by gains in state government and healthcare sectors. Federal government employment continued to decline. Long-term unemployment rose by 190,000 to 1.6 million. Wages increased by 0.2 per cent, and the average workweek decreased slightly. Revisions to previous months added a total of 16,000 jobs for April and May. The labour force participation rate remained steady at 62.3 per cent, while the employment-population ratio held at 59.7 per cent. The number of people employed part-time for economic reasons remained at 4.5 million. Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for Blacks rose to 6.8 per cent, while rates for adult women and Whites decreased to 3.6 per cent. The jobless rates for teenagers (14.4 per cent), Asians (3.5 per cent), and Hispanics (4.8 per cent) showed little or no change. The number of long-term unemployed individuals (jobless for 27 weeks or more) increased by 190,000 to 1.6 million, making up 23.3 per cent of all unemployed people. The average hourly wage for private nonfarm payroll employees increased by 8 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $36.30. Over the past year, hourly wages have risen by 3.7 per cent. Meanwhile, the average workweek for all private-sector employees slightly decreased by 0.1 hour to 34.2 hours. The number of marginally attached workers—those who want a job but aren't actively seeking—rose by 234,000 to 1.8 million. Additionally, the number of discouraged workers (marginally attached individuals who believe no jobs are available) rose by 256,000 to 637,000. Revisions to previous months' figures showed the April 2025 employment figures were revised up by 11,000, from 147,000 to 158,000, and the May 2025 numbers were revised up by 5,000, from 139,000 to 144,000. Combined, these revisions show an additional 16,000 jobs compared to earlier reports, added the release. Fibre2Fashion News Desk (SG)
Economic Times
4 days ago
- Business
- Economic Times
Beyond coding: Why India's young engineers must look past computer science in the age of AI and green tech
US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) brings out occupational outlook handbooks. After you apply filters for pay, projected growth rate and new jobs, the 2025 Outlook picks 10 occupations. Six of them relate to computer and information sciences, two to finance, one to management, and one to medical and health service course, if you are gifted with special talent in music, sport, writing or other creative arts, you would be well-advised to ignore the BLS and nurture your talent all the way to success, or even fame. If you have an aptitude for celebrity, venality, draft-dodging, tax-dodging, felony, real estate development and grievance-mongering, you know where to head. In India, we do have a National Career Service. But it only offers to direct you to counsellors. But practically all the 7,000-odd engineering colleges have their own lists of preferred engineering courses. Here, too, the first preference is for computer sciences, laced with AI and ML now. Computer sciences and software development have, indeed, been India's favoured engineering disciplines ever since Indian geeks on H-1B visas gained a toehold and foothold in the land of opportunity for the express purpose of slaying the Y2K highest revenue per employee among India's big tech companies is for HCL, at a little over $61,000. This is puny compared to the $1 mn-plus earning per employee for US tech giants. Still, this was enough for the Indian tech industry to serve as the vehicle through which India's young achieved social whatever branch of engineering you studied, you joined a tech company, learned to code, and you entered the ranks of the middle class, paying EMIs for homes, phones, cars and holidays, and boosting the Indian economy. AI threatens to put paid to a whole lot of routine programming jobs, enabling an efficient coder to increase his productivity 15-20x. In the US, where software developers are engineers, and programmers are anybody who can write code, programming jobs have been joining the bison, the 4-legged cougar, and the American liberal, as they grope their way into the AI is a high-skill job, with Meta offering some geeks sign-on bonuses worth millions of dollars. Bachelors in computer sciences and AI from some random engineering college in India will not even get a look-in at such jobs. However, opportunities are opening up in all kinds of engineering fields, thanks to the green energy transition, and compulsion on India to fortify national security in communications and power transmission, and indigenise defence technology and the latest scare over Chinese withholding of rare earth magnets to users around the world, including in India. We either have to get more rare earths of our own than is available from IREL (India) Ltd, or develop motors that do not depend on rare earth-doped permanent magnets. Along with battery minerals, this creates demands for power engineers, and mining, mechanical and chemical engineers. The transition to sustainable energy calls for significant increases in RE generation, whether wind, solar or biodigestion, and battery storage. Battery minerals call for expertise in prospecting, mining and ore refining. Developing batteries with high-storage capacity, fast-charging times, and low weight calls for expertise in power engineering, chemistry, materials, design and miniaturisation. Developing magnetic reluctance motors that dispense with rare earth- doped permanent magnets calls for expertise in power engineering, and in microelectronics to control the speed of these are the high-flying hope in new deftech, especially after Ukraine's Operation Spider against Russia, in which drones packed into crates inside trucks were smuggled into Russia, parked near air force bases, and remotely released from their cages to attack parked planes and inflict heavy damage on strategic and building drones that are lightweight and long-range, are capable of acting as loitering munitions or early warning systems, that can be controlled without radio guidance, and all sorts of other kinds, calls for combinations of different kinds of engineering and design. How to kill enemy drones is another challenge. Bursts of laser or microwave radiation could kill their electronics. How to miniaturise power sources for such bursts and make them mobile all along the border is another our power grid, drones or computer systems from being hacked and disabled calls for another combination of engineering skills. Low Earth-orbiting (LEO) satellites are increasingly vital in communications and national security. Building LEOs, and launching them at scale, will create an entire new space industry, calling for engineering talent specific to it is, in this dawn of new opportunity to be an engineer. But to be a young engineer, in any discipline, is very heaven. Let us stop obsessing over computer sciences alone. (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this column are that of the writer. The facts and opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of Elevate your knowledge and leadership skills at a cost cheaper than your daily tea. As GenAI puts traditional BPO on life support, survival demands a makeover India Inc is ditching dollar loans. 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