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Labour codes unlikely to be implemented this fiscal year: report
The implementation of these laws assumes significance because once these are implemented there would be reduction in take-home pay of employees and firms have to bear higher provident fund liability.
Investments via P-notes stand at Rs 97,744 crore till August
The assets under custody (AUC) of FPI’s have almost touched 52 lakh crore in August 2021, which is a record high. It was at Rs 48.36 lakh crore in the preceding month.
Meanwhile, FPIs infused a net sum of Rs 2,083 crore in equities last month and Rs 12,144 crore in the debt market.
India becoming destination country for healthy food, says Tomar at G-20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting
“The Government of India has emphasised on re-introducing traditional food items including millet, other nutritious cereals, fruits and vegetables, fish, dairy and organic products in the diet of the people. Their production has been phenomenal in India in recent years and India is becoming a destination country for healthy food items,” said Tomar during the second day’s session of the G-20 Agriculture Ministers’ meeting.
C-DOT developing tech to tap all media for broadcasting disaster alerts
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) is developing the system for National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and expects it to be ready in 18 months, CDOT chairman and executive director Rajkumar Upadhyay told PTI.
”We are developing a pan-India integrated alert system which can send out alerts across all mediums at one go in an emergency situation. It will be deployed by NDMA. Once the system is deployed, the department concerned will have to just mark the area on the map by pen and the alert will go across all mediums in that area in the local language,” Upadhyay said.
Centre convenes high-level meeting on Serotype-2 dengue cases in 11 states
The States reporting serotype – II dengue cases are Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, MP, UP, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana.
COVID-19 booster dose not central theme at the moment: Government
ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said administering both doses is absolutely essential and there should be no breakage in that.
“We need to remember one thing very clearly that booster dose is not the central theme at the moment in the scientific discussion as well as in the public health domain. Getting the two doses remains the major priority,” Bhargava said.
India reports 35,662 new COVID cases in last 24 hrs, over 55.07 Cr samples tested so far
This comes a day after, India on Friday created a world record by administering the highest-ever single day COVID-19 vaccine doses with over 2.5 crore jabs given in a day on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday.
Indianisation of our country’s legal system is need of the hour, says CJI Ramana
“For parties to understand the implication of the judgment they are forced to spend more money. Courts need to be litigant-centric as they are the ultimate beneficiaries. The simplification of justice delivery should be our pressing concern. It is crucial to make justice delivery more transparent, accessible and effective,” he said.
Govt extends lower tax rate on COVID-19 drugs to year end
Drugs covered by the extension of lower tax rates include Zolgensma, Viltepso, Remdesivir, Favipiravir and Itolizumab.
Almost 90% of people in India’s financial capital have COVID-19 antibodies: survey
Sero-prevalence was significantly higher in individuals who had received either first or both doses of COVID-19 vaccine as compared to their unvaccinated counterparts, the survey by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) noted.