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Bengal to set up 15,000 telemedicine centres in two years
State health secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam said the authorities are developing an integrated health management system to provide an end-to-end service to the government and private healthcare facilitates.
”The state government runs around Rs 2,500-3,000 crore worth of schemes to cover a wide variety of treatments and is in process of creating a big ecosystem so that no patient remains unattended,” he added.
India needs Pandemic Pool to manage risks on long-term basis: CII
”This is the opportune time for India to have the first-mover advantage in the creation of the pandemic pool with a two-pronged strategy of going beyond the insurers and the government by inviting international reinsurers to supplement capital contribution for the pool and to incentivize state governments to participate with additional supplementary capital for greater protection to their denizens,” it added.
Hiring activity witnesses uptick in June for most sectors: Report
Other sectors like insurance, retail, education and FMCG also showed a progress of 12 per cent, 5 per cent, 12.1 per cent and 16 per cent, respectively, it added. Although, hiring in the telecom sector has declined by 8 per cent in June compared to May this year, it noted.
CAG pulls up Assam govt on pension scheme for families of deceased staff
”Instead of correcting these deficiencies, the state government introduced the Compassionate Family Pension(CFP) scheme which has ‘entitlement features’ and hence is not in keeping with the well laid legal principles, regarding compassionate appointments by the state,” the report said.
Over 300 phone nos of ministers, journos, activists, bizmen in India could have been hacked: Report
The Wire reported that forensic tests conducted as part of the media investigation project on a small cross-section of phones associated with these numbers revealed clear signs of targeting by Pegasus spyware in 37 phones, of which 10 are Indian.
The government, however, dismissed allegations of any kind of surveillance on its part on specific people, saying it ”has no concrete basis or truth associated with it whatsoever”.
Rain fury claims 30 lives as fifth thunderstorm in a month batters Mumbai
Meanwhile, the flooding in the water purification complex at Bhandup affected the water supply in most parts of the metropolis, a BMC official said. The flooding has affected electrical equipment that controls the pumping and filtration processes there, one of the major sites of water supply to the country’s financial capital, following which the BMC asked citizens to boil water before drinking.
Collaboration between Delhi Police, DoT to help trace IMEI numbers of lost mobile phones
The project, which has been launched in Maharashtra and Delhi to facilitate blocking and tracing of lost and stolen mobile phones, will discourage snatching and thefts of mobile phones and also help check their resale, officials said.IMEI is a 15-digit identifier for each mobile phone used in the telecom network and according to the police, there have been many cases of cloned and duplicated IMEI handsets.
Nagaland asks staff to get vaccinated or show no-Covid report for salary
The salaries of those who have not taken a single dose of the vaccine against coronavirus or who will fail to furnish COVID-19 negative test report will be stopped beyond July 31, 2021, and they would not attend office, it said
PFRDA pension subscriber base rises 24% to touch 4.35 crore in June
The total pension assets under management stood at Rs 6,16,517 crore as on June 30, showing a yearly growth of 32.67 percent, the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) said.
India reports 38,079 new COVID-19 cases, positivity rate at 1.19 pc
The Union Health Ministry has informed that the cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered under the nationwide vaccination drive has reached 39,96,95,879 out of which 42,12,557 vaccine doses were administrated in the last 24 hours.