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  US President Joe Biden signs infrastructure bill US President Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan $1 trillio infrastructure bill into law after months of delay amid Democratic infighting over a social spending package. "Here in Washington, we've heard countless speeches and promises, white papers from experts, but today we're finally getting this done," Biden said on Monday at a signing ceremony at the White House attended by members of Congress, Governors and Mayors. "So my message to the American people is this, America's moving again, and your life is going to change for the better," he said. Biden has tapped former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu as a senior White House adviser to coordinate the implementation of the infrastructure bill. The bill includes $550 billion in new spending on infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges, passenger rails, drinking water and waste water systems. The rest of the infrastructure package involves previously ...

Rupees   The domestic capital markets continue to remain on an upward trajectory after a strong performance in FY2021. The average daily turnover (ADTO) increased to Rs 27.92 lakh crore in FY2021 from Rs 14.39 lakh crore in FY2020, registering an annual growth of 94 per cent. Transaction volumes remain strong in the current fiscal, with the markets clocking an ADTO of Rs 56.36 lakh crore in H1 FY2022. As per ICRA, the market performance has been supported by favourable liquidity in both domestic and international markets, optimism related to a recovery after the graded reopening of the economy, progress on vaccination rollout and steady retail investor momentum. Throwing more light, Samriddhi Chowdhary, Vice President & Sector Head - Financial Sector Ratings, ICRA says, "The pool of ICRA-rated bank brokerages reported a strong performance in FY2021 with the estimated average daily turnover (ADTO) increasing 28 per cent Y-o-Y to Rs 1.51 lakh crore from Rs 1.18 lakh crore in FY2...

    A Crucial Step to Enhancing Pneumonia Care Pneumonia, an acute respiratory infection, is a recognized public health emergency in India. It is associated with an annual mortality rate of roughly 2.5 million adults and children globally. India alone accounts for 23 per cent of the global pneumonia burden. (i) In 2018, 9,28,485 people were affected by pneumonia nationwide. At 16.9 per cent, it also forms the second highest cause of infant mortality in India. (ii) Caused by virus, bacteria or fungi, pneumonia inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs, making breathing painful by limiting oxygen intake. The most common cause of bacterial pneumonia is streptococcus pneumonia. The Need for Early Diagnosis Despite being an identifiable and treatable condition, pneumonia diagnosis is often delayed, leading to disease progression and preventable deaths. Typical sputum culture to identify the cause of pneumonia or other respiratory tract infections can take between 24 and 48 hours. ...

  WhatsApp With an aim to empower its users with new features, Meta-owned WhatsApp is working on a feature that will let you hide your "last seen" status from specific people. According to GSMArena, the beta version of WhatsApp for Android now has an option to hide your "last seen" status from specific people. The feature has been in active development for a few months at this point, and now it's finally live for a subset of those part of the beta programme, the report said. The company might soon make it available to all the people using the beta, and then eventually to the version of WhatsApp everyone's using. The feature will allow WhatsApp users to set their "last seen" status to be viewed by everyone, their contacts, their contacts except a blacklist of specific people and nobody. Meanwhile, this month, a report said that WhatsApp is working on a new Communities feature that will give admins more power over groups. According to WABetaInfo, the...

  singer Luke Combs American singer, prolific songwriter and five-time Grammy winner Chris Stapleton nearly swept the CMA Awards with four trophies in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday night (U.S. Central Standard Time), but the Country Music Association reserved its top prize for Luke Combs, reports 'Variety'. "(Presenter) Alan Jackson said my name twice just now," marvelled Combs, accepting the Entertainer of the Year period as the telecast slipped across the three-hour point. "I have never written a speech for something like this, which is not serving me very well right now ... I don't deserve to win it, but I'm sure as hell glad that I did," he added.   Earlier in the night, he had premiered a brand new song, 'Doin' This'. It was Combs' second shot at Entertainer of the Year; last year he lost it to Eric Church. The 31-year-old's 2020 album, 'What You See is What You Get', topped charts across multiple territories. ...

Drake   Rapper Drake has made his first public statement following the deaths of eight people at rapper Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival on November 5. Drake took to social media and wrote: "I've spent the past few days trying to wrap my head around this devastating tragedy... My heart is broken for the families and friends of those who lost their lives and for anyone suffering." Drake appeared as a surprise guest during Travis Scott's headlining set, joining him onstage for two tracks, including their 2018 smash "Sicko Mode", reports variety.com. As the sequence of events that led to the "mass casualty" panic of Friday night is revealed, Drake has received a fair share of criticism for going on with the show. As he took the stage towards the end of the set, emergency medical personnel were reportedly responding to multiple cases of cardiac arrest, likely from the surge of the crowd as they made their way towards the stage for Scott's and...

  Lewis Hamilton Red Bull's Max Verstappen took a big step towards the 2021 Formula One World Championship with a dominant win in the Mexico City Grand Prix, with title rival Lewis Hamilton a distant second. Starting third on the grid, Verstappen used the long run down to the first corner to slipstream past the Mercedes duo of Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas to take the lead, as pole man Bottas fell to the back after being tagged by Daniel Ricciardo's McLaren on Monday morning (IST). Once at the front, Verstappen comfortably extended his lead over Hamilton and was never threatened as he cruised to his ninth win of the 2021 season, Xinhua reports. "The start was nice and it was all about trying to brake as late as (I could). I kept it on the track, came from third to first and that was basically what made my race because I could just focus on myself, and we had incredible pace in the car," said the Dutchman, who has led more laps in 2021 than every other driver combined. ...