Thursday, October 08
One moment Anushka (name changed) was a college student. Then her world turned upside down. It started with a persistent cough and high fever. Despite popping meds, it wouldn’t go away. Tests followed and then came the news that knocked the stuffing out of her—she had a fatal form of tuberculosis (TB). With scarred lungs, she gasped for each breath. The bacteria had killed her appetite, making her frail and bony. Her skin colour changed—to dark and then grew paler. At 20, her life expectancy dwindled to a few months.“I felt weak,” she recalls, “and preferred to be alone.”Battling extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis or XDR-TB, a form of the disease in which drugs rarely worked, Anushka’s only option was to be loaded each day with scores of tablets and injections. Those c
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Sunday said Sat Pal Bhanoo has given additional charge of MD and CEO of the insurance company following approval of the Department of Financial Services. "The Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, vide its letter dated June 7, 2025 conveyed the approval of the competent authority, entrusting the financial and administrative powers and functions of the CEO and MD of the Corporation, for a period of 3 months with effect from June 8, 2025, that is up to September 7, 2025 or till assumption of charge of the post by the regular incumbent," LIC said in a regulatory filing. Bhanoo is the seniormost among the four LIC MDs. The vacancy was created by the completion of the term of Siddhartha Mohanty as CEO and MD of LIC on June 7, 2025. M
