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Sophia Dalke no longer wanted to live. In November 2015, the then 31-year-old wrote an email to friends and headed to her office building on K Street NW, where she planned to end her life. She was arrested on firearms charges following a 10-hour standoff with police and taken to the psychiatric ward of a local hospital. She stayed there for about a month, she says.
The health infrastructure in Delhi has come under tremendous pressure during the ongoing second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both government and private hospitals have had to ramp up facilities like oxygen plants and ICU beds to cope with the large number of serious patients requiring hospitalisation.
FM hands over first batch of houses under special window project
By IANS |
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Thu, May 13 2021 22:21 IST |
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Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, Nirmala Sitharaman. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 13 : Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday handed over possession to homebuyers virtually as the Centre s Special Window for Affordable & Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH) completed its first residential project.
The residential project Rivali Park in suburban Mumbai is the first housing project in India to have received funding under the SWAMIH Fund. The SWAMIH Fund was launched by Sitharaman in November 2019.
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Active & Healthy Ageing: Creating a holistic environment and support system to enable the elderly optimize opportunities May 10, 2021, 5:14 PM IST
Ankur Gupta, co-founder & chairman, Association of Senior Living India (ASLI)
The United Nations recently declared 20212030 as the Decade of Healthy Ageing, with WHO leading international action to improve the lives of older people, their families and communities. In India, we have seen a rapid growth in the ageing population in the last few years. According to a 2019 CII report, India will have 330 million individuals aged 60 years and above by 2050, accounting for 18% of our total population. The advancement of medical science and technology has led to an increased life expectancy. In 1995, the average life expectancy was 65 years, whereas the population researchers have shown that by the year 2025, the life expectancy will reach73 years. Enhanced affordability of living, increased life expect